Will Republicans Shut Down Government Again?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 1st, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Will Republicans Shut Down Government Again?
Molly Ball, The Atlantic: House GOP leaders fear a conservative revolt when government funding comes up for a vote next month. The last government shutdown, almost a year ago, was no fun for anyone. Republicans in the House and Senate demanded that legislation to fund the government simultaneously defund Obamacare; Democrats refused to go along. In the ensuing 16-day stalemate, many functions of the federal government were forced to shutter. Federal workers were furloughed or worked without pay, children were disenrolled from Head Start, and the U.S. economy lost about $24 billion.
Leonard: Why Uber Must Be Stopped
Andrew Leonard, Salon: There’s little doubt that Uber is the closest thing we’ve got today to the living, breathing essence of unrestrained capitalism. This is like watching Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller in action. This is how robber barons play. … What happens when a company with the DNA of Uber ends up winning it all? What happens when the local taxi companies are destroyed and Lyft is crushed? When Uber has dominant market position in every major city on the globe?