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I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !

 
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10/01/2013 06:46 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
surely, fuck all happens there
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10/01/2013 06:58 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
How do you guys in Belgium stop them from coming back?
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10/01/2013 06:59 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
What about greece? They warmte a tyranical oppressive government?
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10/01/2013 07:00 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Why are people in greece so mad about
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10/01/2013 07:04 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
When I win the lottery I would move to Belgium.

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10/01/2013 07:04 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Belgium has les GDP than the state of Ohio, would it really be a big deal if the state of ohio couldn't get their shit together for 2 years? Not really.
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10/01/2013 07:07 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
How do you guys in Belgium stop them from coming back?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 32809996


This was 2011!

They are already back!

We didn't stop them.
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10/01/2013 07:08 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
well...

the difference is that the USA is the largest economy in the world, so it may have some effect...

but the REAL game is the debt ceiling, not the "shutdown"
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47729970


That's right.
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10/01/2013 07:10 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Your government is also run by murderous pedophiles and you guys did little about it even with tons of proof.
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10/01/2013 07:15 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Yea the difference is that are prime minister gets to close it down. He does it when he is worried about question period and getting caught up. Harper is a crapper too. He does what ever he wants and gets away with it. ugh I so had politics anymore.
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Actually, Prime Minister Harper goes to the Governor General and requests a prorogation, it's not Harper's decision per se. But this does seem to happen a lot under Harper.
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10/01/2013 07:15 PM
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Oh you lucky bastards!!!
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10/01/2013 07:16 PM
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10/01/2013 07:23 PM
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Your government is also run by murderous pedophiles and you guys did little about it even with tons of proof.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45013270


This.

They are Satanic pedophiles and master extortionists.
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10/01/2013 07:47 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
why was it shut down
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10/01/2013 08:07 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
>belgium

yeah, its a non-country. free flanders and fuck walloon. walloon is kanker
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10/01/2013 08:17 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Well in Belgium, government or no government doesn't really matter.
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10/01/2013 08:17 PM
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>belgium

yeah, its a non-country. free flanders and fuck walloon. walloon is kanker
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40303172

You crazy? Wallonia is beautiful.
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10/01/2013 08:25 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Seriously dude, don't get us wrong. We are all for the shutdown.

You just need to understand what used to be the American work ethic. Most of us 30 and over still have it, yet few younger can say the same.

The work ethic of which I speak is, if you are going to do something, do it RIGHT.

So our position is simply, why stop there?

My spontaneous and slightly biased guess would be that probably 90% of the federal government is bloated pork that can't lie, cheat and steal enough money from the American people through official means to support their own budgets so they have to own all of the black markets as well to do it.

So really, why do we need any of THEM (the 90%) at all?

If we did it RIGHT, and shutdown EVERY function of the fed that exists EXCLUSIVELY to serve the interests and well being of the fed, meaning, does NOT serve the interests and well being of the American people, then we would instantaneously reduce taxes by unfathomable margins, stimulate the economy by putting the construction industry back to work remodeling all of the federal buildings into government subsidized housing for the masses that no longer receive indefinite welfare, and give every department of the fed still existing a major budget surplus for say the next three decades or so.

Or at least that is what our leaders would do if they had any American work ethic.
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10/01/2013 08:29 PM
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why was it shut down
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20812629


well a right wing party had won in the north (flanders) and a left wing party won in the south (walonia) as you can see that is a mix that will never go well together.
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10/01/2013 08:32 PM
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10/01/2013 08:33 PM
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10/01/2013 08:55 PM
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47714915


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10/01/2013 09:02 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
OP's an idiot, it was not the same amount of shutdown.

In Belgium, No public services were cancelled, all public workers were paid.

It was just 541 days without a new government after the elections.

The old government stayed in place and kept things running.
No new laws were made, no budget was decided upon.

They would work with the old budget on a month to month basis.
No long term decision were taken.

Also bad.

But not nearly as bad as a complete shutdown.
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10/01/2013 09:04 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Beat that!

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47476126


OP- may I ask, did you notice any significant differences, or was it more just business as usual for the people?
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10/01/2013 09:06 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Her Belgium...

You're on!

Here that guys?

We need to keep this shit shut down for 600 days... minimum.

PLEASE!
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10/01/2013 10:23 PM
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Bring ON the Belgium Beer stew recipes!!
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10/01/2013 10:49 PM
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Beat that!

dance5adance
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47476126



I will see your government shutdown and raise you a government dissolution!poker
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10/01/2013 11:22 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
OP's an idiot, it was not the same amount of shutdown.

In Belgium, No public services were cancelled, all public workers were paid.

It was just 541 days without a new government after the elections.

The old government stayed in place and kept things running.
No new laws were made, no budget was decided upon.

They would work with the old budget on a month to month basis.
No long term decision were taken.

Also bad.

But not nearly as bad as a complete shutdown.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47683784


Both sound pretty nice to me.
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10/01/2013 11:54 PM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Please teach us on how to keep the government shut down...Americans need to be educated on how do that.
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10/02/2013 12:06 AM
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Re: I'm from Belgium.... beep ..beep..and we had a government shut down for 541 days !
Beat that!

dance5adance
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47476126


Everyone got their Social services back after it too.





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