>Congress is wholly empowered to pass any budget it likes.
Yes, and the international community is wholly empowered to consider Congress a risk to the financial stability of the United States if it takes decisions that look like they're risking the financial stability of the United States. Congress has no power to dictate how other people view them; quite the opposite, they're supposed to be held accountable to others' view of them!
>As a community heavier in skeptics and rationalists than the general public, I would hope HN and the tech community to be good examples in promoting understanding and finding compromise.
Skepticism and rationality are about arriving to correct conclusions, not about pouring on the Fallacy of the Golden Mean until suddenly "compromising" on a policy that annual government shutdowns are a "reasonable" way to maintain currency values.
Yes, and the international community is wholly empowered to consider Congress a risk to the financial stability of the United States if it takes decisions that look like they're risking the financial stability of the United States. Congress has no power to dictate how other people view them; quite the opposite, they're supposed to be held accountable to others' view of them!
>As a community heavier in skeptics and rationalists than the general public, I would hope HN and the tech community to be good examples in promoting understanding and finding compromise.
Skepticism and rationality are about arriving to correct conclusions, not about pouring on the Fallacy of the Golden Mean until suddenly "compromising" on a policy that annual government shutdowns are a "reasonable" way to maintain currency values.