In the current edition of the weekly journal "Der Spiegel" there is an essey giving a short analasys of the situation surrounding the current goverment shutdown. Might be interesting for some of the American members to read since it gives an outside perspective, but unfortunatly the essey has not yet been translated into english. I would like to post the basic claims given in that essey and ask the American members here if there is any truth to it or if the essey got it`s facts wrong.
The author claims that the American economy is on the road to recovery. The number of unemployed Americans is shrinking, consumtion is starting to rise and everything in the country points to recovery. Adding to that "the war on terror" will be coming to an end by 2014.
Seeing this, the radical tea party wing of the republican party, which has the prime political goal to make Obama a failed president no matter how bad the consequences for the rest of the country would be, have mainly participated in and forced the goverment shutdown because of their goal to make this president a failure, by slicing down the slight economic recovery and attempting to sabotage the health care reform. With the war in Afghanistan ending and the economy in recovery the radical elements of the republican party are losing their talking points and therefor have to make sure that a failed democratic president will become their next talking point.
I found these claims to be very interesting, but would like to have them varyfied by some American members of this forum. To me, the very idea of a political party is willing to sabotage the country simply to make their opponent look weak is something alien which would be impossible here.
The author claims that the American economy is on the road to recovery. The number of unemployed Americans is shrinking, consumtion is starting to rise and everything in the country points to recovery. Adding to that "the war on terror" will be coming to an end by 2014.
Seeing this, the radical tea party wing of the republican party, which has the prime political goal to make Obama a failed president no matter how bad the consequences for the rest of the country would be, have mainly participated in and forced the goverment shutdown because of their goal to make this president a failure, by slicing down the slight economic recovery and attempting to sabotage the health care reform. With the war in Afghanistan ending and the economy in recovery the radical elements of the republican party are losing their talking points and therefor have to make sure that a failed democratic president will become their next talking point.
I found these claims to be very interesting, but would like to have them varyfied by some American members of this forum. To me, the very idea of a political party is willing to sabotage the country simply to make their opponent look weak is something alien which would be impossible here.
