American government how does that work then? (Page 3): In reading this post it would seem that you need to ask this question of your head of government rather than ask us why our...

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Bob Smith wrote:

Yes typical nonsense response but quoting history doesn't quite answer why your head of state can shut down the government and ours can't. If you are the land of the so called free and a democracy how is it one person can shut down the government? Oh! by the way you were a little late in WW1 and WW2. And if you want to be offensive mentioning wars we didn't help you out in Vietnam and look what happened there.

In reading this post it would seem that you need to ask this question of your head of government rather than ask us why our leader can shut down the government but your leader can't.

Dennis

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

To more directly answer your question--spending is the perview of the house of Representitives. Since the current budget is not approved a continuing resolution is necessary to keep the Gov't open. The bill must be signed by the Pres. With regard to WW2. The US lend/lease program kept England from conquest. Without supplies from The US there would have been no fuel for the spitfires to stay in the air. Never so few etc. And without Ike and SHAEF England would be speaking German as Overlord never would have happened, because there would not jhave been the supplies. Ask yourself this question. How many graveyard filled with Engilsh dead form WW2 are there in the US--None why? How many US dead in GB and Europen graveyards arfe there-many- Why?

Cykdelic Loc: Now outside of Chiraq & Santa Fe, NM

Bob Smith wrote:

I often post things on here and us Brits are always criticised by Americans that we are ruled by the Queen. Which is nonsense the Queen has no power over government and would quickly be overruled by the government of she tried something like Mr Trump has. So my question is if the president can shut down the government which country is run by government and which run by a demigod.

Your ignorance of how our government works, how it has been “shut down” (actually a partial shutdown of 25% of it), and who/what events worked to make it happen is palpable.

Cykdelic Loc: Now outside of Chiraq & Santa Fe, NM

Kraken wrote:

No he is not.

As are you.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

boberic wrote:

To more directly answer your question--spending is... (show quote)

Cykdelic Loc: Now outside of Chiraq & Santa Fe, NM

Architect1776 wrote:

Late to WWII? br Yeah, because we didn't start it.... (show quote)

He forgot to mention Churchill begging us to enter WWII.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Architect1776 wrote:

It is from someone who has studied the war.
Read many books including Churchill's 6 volume series, which you haven't.

Church Hill drawed the border lines wrong in middle east. An he was a lifelong cocaine user an acholic

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

Bob Smith wrote:

I often post things on here and us Brits are always criticised by Americans that we are ruled by the Queen. Which is nonsense the Queen has no power over government and would quickly be overruled by the government of she tried something like Mr Trump has. So my question is if the president can shut down the government which country is run by government and which run by a demigod.

It’s called a constitutional right. Anti-American non-Americans will never understand this.

Bob Smith Loc: Banjarmasin

boberic wrote:

To more directly answer your question--spending is... (show quote)

Good points and true but if those things had never happened would Hitler have eventually carried on and maybe there would have been US soldier graves on US soil. The point made earlier about US saving us with guns/ materials is the fact that it is often put as if it were free which it was not, like I mentioned we finished our war debt in 2006.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

Bob Smith wrote:

Good points and true but if those things had never happened would Hitler have eventually carried on and maybe there would have been US soldier graves on US soil. The point made earlier about US saving us with guns/ materials is the fact that it is often put as if it were free which it was not, like I mentioned we finished our war debt in 2006.

Free or paid for, with out our help you would have been in a world of hurt. It is history, move on.

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

boberic wrote:

To more directly answer your question--spending is... (show quote)

Pardon me for correcting you, but the word you want is not ‘conquest,’ but conquer.

con·quest

the subjugation and assumption of control of a place or people by use of military force.

"the conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish"

“the invasion and assumption of control of England by William of Normandy in 1066.

‘Conquest’ is something the victor does, not the vanquished.

The vanquished are conquered.

“How many graveyard filled with Engilsh dead form WW2 are there in the US--None why?”

The answer is because we don’t import casualties from England to be buried in this country.

You are correct, we probably saved England in WW II, and we probably did it is self defense.

And more than that, we set up NATO which has kept the world from another world war—at least until trump, acting at Putin’s orders, attacked NATO to make Europe more vulnerable to Russia’s adventures.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

Twardlow wrote:

Pardon me for correcting you, but the word you wan... (show quote)

Little tard, you continually reach new lows in your quest to APPEAR superior. Most adults would be able to understand what was meant and move on. Not you, your little ego makes you point it out. Finally you finish in all your glory and with saying Trump acts on Putin's orders.......Intelligence and credibility at ZERO.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

boberic wrote:

To more directly answer your question--spending is... (show quote)

Do you really believe that if England had been allowed to fail the US would not have been in peril? As much as anything we fought over there so we wouldn’t have to fight here. Personally I think Americans would have a healthier outlook towards war if it had been fought over here, but the price would have been too high. As far as where the bodies are buried, are you familiar with the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

Elaine2025 wrote:

Free or paid for, with out our help you would have been in a world of hurt. It is history, move on.

Everyone gives their opinion here, and that is good. You are among a very few here who then go on to tell others what to do. You sound much more like a teenage boy than a woman, to me.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

thom w wrote:

Everyone gives their opinion here, and that is good. You are among a very few here who then go on to tell others what to do. You sound much more like a teenage boy than a woman, to me.

Little tommie you are rambling again. Then you repeat what I have said about you. Do you ever have an original thought? I don't think you do. Someone else says it first or you get it from Mad Cow.