House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as a robust faction of hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain.
McCarthy’s right-flank Republicans refused to support the bill despite its steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions, calling it insufficient.
The White House and Democrats rejected the Republican approach as too extreme. The vote was 198-232, with 21 hard-right Republicans voting to sink the package. The Democrats voted against it.
By crash I mean a new economy needs to be built, we've never not been slaves to this one.
And most humans will continue to slave for a handful of sociopathic families until that happens. It will eventually. Entropy is absolute and Rome always falls in the end. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but if you think we can stay this course without planet devastating catastrophe by our own hands and technology we don't fully understand used for short term profit at all costs.
Do you want the end to be inflicted on all of us, or do you want there to be enough left to meaningfully rebuild?