They do to pass a budget. As the GOP wont support what the Dems want and the Dems wont support what the GOP want there is no funding approved and so the shutdown. (View Post)

To some people its always the GOP's fault, whether they are in a majority or a minority. To some people its always the Dem's fault, whether they are in a majority or a minority. I would suggest that … (View Post)

The GOP doesn't have 60 senators so it doesn't control every branch of government. (View Post)

Its not the money coming in which is the problem (the UK does very well) but the money going out: 2024 international tourism: UK receipts $84bn expenditure $119bn France receipts $77bn expenditure $6… (View Post)

By choice. Its not a law of nature or economics. Continually leaking £30bn out of the country, year after year, decade after decade, eventually you end up wondering why so many of the country's asset… (View Post)