Federation of American Scientists - Short-term funding of the government is
currently set to expire on December 8. If funding is not extended by
Congress, then most government operations would have to cease.
The processes and procedures by which such a shutdown would be executed, as well as its broader implications, were described in a newly updated report from the Congressional Research Service.
"Government shutdowns have necessitated furloughs of several hundred
thousand federal employees, required cessation or reduction of many
government activities, and affected numerous sectors of the economy,"
the CRS report said.
"The longest such shutdown lasted 21 full days during FY1996, from
December 16, 1995, to January 6, 1996. More recently, a funding gap
commenced on October 1, 2013, the first day of FY2014, after funding for
the previous fiscal year expired." It lasted 16 days.
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If any care to notice, the western republics in recent times are getting more and more third world like, year after year. The news on western TV shows that western republics are going toward that strong man in charge situation ever so slowly. Strong succession movements is a likely future along with civil wars, and wars for distraction etc.
For those who know some of real history, know that semi stable first world conditions for the western republics happened during the cold war era. Because of the political threat of communism, via the threat of losing the whole world to communism single political party ran republics forced the western republics straight enough to enable them a semi stable first world economy. Ever since the end of the cold war era the western republics have been slowly unraveling toward third world chaos. The political force of cell phones and internet has been a partial replacement for the cold war situation, but likely not enough into the future.
If you care to watch the craziness in today's news/politics/economics you can see clearly a combination of losing the control type "information control" for the western republics along with the elites slowly stealing and borrowing their republics toward third world conditions has greatly destabilized the west. In short once the western republic in question can't borrow any more money it will slam into third world conditions. First world by endless borrowing money is a scam.
What next? Likely the bankrupting of the western republics and the working middle classes. At that point the rising norm will be single political party ran third world republics in the west. Third world chaos will rule and crack downs on open communications on the internet and cell phones will totally destabilize the western world.
In essence as free speech is totally destroyed that can be the official starting date of a new dark age in the world.
To pull out of this coming dark age will take a new global balance of political economy, hopefully it will happen in a good positive way. The old elite way of supporting movements that put up single political party ran republic dictatorships is not the way forward. That lucky fluke of history for the west (the cold war era) is unlikely to repeat in a positive way into the future.
Those who read what I wrote know a possible way forward to something positive in global political economy. New better systems of democracy design, hard to create these successfully, but the alternative will be global third world chaos as it looks now into the far future.
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