Things you thought you'd never see: The joint Labor/Chamber of Commerce letter

[cali]

to President Obama and Congress. The Teathuglicans have united the most unlikely factions in the country:

To President Obama and Members of Congress:

As leaders of business, labor, and the nonprofit sector, we are writing to urge you to end the federal
government shutdown immediately.

Our country is navigating the most challenging economic times in a generation. While we may disagree on
priorities for federal policies and we even have conflicting views about many issues, we are in complete agreement
that the current shutdown is harmful and the risk of default is potentially catastrophic for our fragile economy.
Large and small businesses, the workforce (especially federal workers), people who rely on public and
privately-funded social services, and communities at-large, are being harmed by the shutdown. The federal
government is our nation’s largest consumer of goods and services, our largest employer, and the single largest
source of financial support for state and local governments and for private social services. Several hundred thousand
public servants are at home without pay. The longer the shutdown continues, the more people and communities’
economic security will be damaged. Ultimately, our economy could be driven back into a recession.

As we often have in our history, our country benefits from strong differences of opinion on many important
issues affecting both federal legislation and the federal government. We believe it is important that we turn to the
normal processes our government has for resolving these issues. We cannot afford to have either our government
closed or our nation’s creditworthiness called into question as part of the way we resolve these important issues.

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http://op.bna.com/dlrcases.nsf/id/bpen-9chs4v/$File/Chamber%20AFL%20UW%20letter%20on%20shutdown%20%2010%2011%202013.pdf

[pansypoo53219]

1. tell them to send it to BONER, the chicken w/ 2 rite wings.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Wow, the teabaggers have brought a lot of unlikely people together against them.

They really shot themselves in the foot with that shutdown. The best thing they could do for themselves is to shut their mouths until the next election. Something tells me they're not going to do that, though. I hope they keep up all that the radical bullshit. I want voters to really be sick of them by November of next year.