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John McCain on the pending government shutdown: "It's unnecessary"
With a likely government shutdown hovering over the United States, on Monday evening "Piers Morgan Live" asked John McCain to share his thoughts.
"My reaction is that it's unnecessary, and I'm afraid that the American people, as they have in the past, will blame Congress, i.e. Republicans," said the senior United States Senator from Arizona. "What is particularly disappointing is that Obamacare is going to have a lot of problems in its rollout. The president's polling numbers are falling in every category. And yet the story is, to the American people, that Republicans are fighting Republicans. That's not helpful."
Joining Piers Morgan live via satellite from Washington, McCain emphasized the potential implications of what the nation is facing:
"It's very important that we understand that Americans don't like government. They don't like Congress. They don't like government. But they don't want it shut down," he told the host. "When, in '95, when we shut down the government last time, we had already passed a number of appropriations bills. So the impact of a shutdown of a government since we haven't passed a single appropriations bill, will be more immediate and will be more impactful."
Watch the rest of the clip for more of Morgan's interview with McCain, and for a special edition of "Piers Morgan Live," tune to CNN at 12a.
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So on the eve of this shutdown, what does the federal government, who has been plagued with trillion of dollars of debt and necessary budget cuts, do?
Well it spends as much money as it can, of course!
This past week alone, the federal government authorized payments by the Department of Veterans Affairs to purchase $562,000 worth of artwork, the Agriculture Department to buy $144,000 on toner
cartridges
, and the Coast Guard to spend $178,000 on “Cubicle Furniture Rehab.”
In fact, the federal government has spent an average of $46 billion in each final week of the fiscal year since 2010.
The so named “use-it-or-lose-it” mentality goes to show how corrupt and dysfunctional our political system has become. Our nation has become so crippled by debt, so plagued by unemployment and so disconnected from Capitol Hill, that we simply can no longer trust nor depend on our overpaid, disconnected and disloyal representatives.- See more at: http://americanlibertypac.com/#sthash.8zJ11Mr7.aBS4A1nP.dpuf
Do not give in treat everyone the same what is good for the general public is good enough for the people in Washington and the big union. Do not sell us down the river stand your ground
McCain is just a pathological and compulsive liar that tells one blatant lie after another.
Piers should even bother having McCain on his show
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