Follow the Money: the Republican/Tea Party wants to shut down the - TopicsExpress

Follow the Money: the Republican/Tea Party wants to shut down the Government to deny regular people improvements to the healthcare system while benefiting the oil and banking industries. "The debt-limit bill would encourage offshore energy production, energy production on federal lands and block EPA greenhouse-gas and coal-ash regulations. Also being considered is a proposal to eliminate a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that would end regulators’ authority to seize and dismantle financial firms if their failure could damage the stability of the U.S. financial system. Another proposal would gut mandatory spending for the Consumer Financial Protection Board and revise the federal employees’ retirement system. "