Republicans Have Made America Into a Global Laughingstock With Their Government Shutdown

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Republicans Have Made America Into a Global Laughingstock With Their Government Shutdown:

 "There is a palpable sense of disquiet among world leaders watching Republicans shutdown and befuddle the United States government’s ability to operate because they could not tolerate 30 million Americans having access to affordable healthcare insurance.

 In fact, most people around the world seriously cannot comprehend the inhumanity of Republicans and their funding machines spending hundreds-of-millions of dollars and shutting down the government to prevent Americans from having health insurance, and the sad joke is that they claim it is what makes America “exceptional” if exceptional means being barbaric.

  The real concern among world leaders, though, is that Republicans unilaterally shut down the government and threaten (again) to default on the nation’s sovereign debt and plunge the world’s financial system into a depression."

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