That move is worth it. If you think shutting down the government is a worthwhile proposition, give us a call at 2025853880. If you do not think it is worth it, give us a call at 2025 85 3881. Tell us why you think it is worth it or not worth it. You can reach out to us on social media, two. About 25 comments starting the morning. You can send this email to. The headline on the boston shows house gop ups the risk of shutdown. Is reflective of a lot of the headlines this morning. That house vote yesterday, you may have seen it on cspan, you can see the highlights on c span. Org. The legislation was approved on 89. Twoine vote, 2301 democrats voted for the measure. The report this morning this is a continuation of what youll find on the front page of the Washington Post. Again, on the idea of a Government Shutdown over the defunding of the healthcare law. We want to get your thoughts this morning heard if you think is worth it or if you think it is not worth it. Ill get the phone lines for those that think it is worth it. For those who think it is not worth it. You cannot only participate in the polls, you can also give your comments as well. Two folks have done so. Mark stein. We also heard from patricia meredith. Again, your thoughts this morning welcomed on the phone line and social media as well. From wichita falls, texas. Monique saying that it is worth it. High, i think so because first of all the last time the Government Shutdown happened, i believe if im right, the republicans did something good. It needs to be not shut down, shutdown theres nothing bad going to happen to the republicans. Think they are being told what is going on that is right by the people who they are voting for. I believe it would be worth it. Nexen is larry in mississippi. Next up is larry in mississippi. Why specifically do not think it s worth it . Caller caller it is going to destroy the economy. Theres no doubt about it. The only reason the republicans are doing it remember what they said. This is exactly what this is about. Is the same thing they got in massachusetts and they loved it. The republicans dont want the rest of the country to have health care. You have one republican complaining about making hundred 72,000 and he is a millionaire. That tells you everything you need to know and have a good day, sir. Host renee zimmer los angeles. She thinks it is worth it. I dont like the fact that the government is telling you what you have to buy. It has nothing to do with color issues here. What about all the illegal aliens . Theyre not going to have to pay for it, so why should we pay for it . Do you think is actually going to happen . Dont like the Health Care Law at all. I dont think it is right. Those are just a sampling of opinions on a show this morning. Have heard some of the thoughts this morning from people calling in off of facebook there are some true to people as well. If you want to give us your thoughts again, 2025853880. You have our social media avenues just to give you a sense of some of the sound that took lace in light of the vote yesterday. First up, House Speaker john boehner explains the house gop motivation and he also sent a message to the u. S. Senate. Say no. Time for us to it is time for us to stop this before it causes any more damage to American Families and american businesses. You have businesses all of the country who are not hiring because of the impact of this law. You have other businesses that are reducing the hours for their employees because of this law. To the United States senate is real simple. The American People dont want the Government Shutdown and they dont want obamacare. [applause] [applause] the house has listened to the American People. Now it is time for the United States senate to listen to them as well. [applause] a couple of comments off of twitter to add to the conversation this morning. Sylvia baumgart says it is not worth it. L kde says let it shut down. What difference, at this point, does it make . That is the question were posing for the remainder of our time this morning. This is eric thinks it is not worth it. Good morning. Caller the Government Shutdown if you go back to the Newt Gingrich and bill clinton years, bill clinton did everything that a rightwing president would do. Dont ask dont tell. He was extorted. President obama has to spend his time trying to get it overturned and work with them. Basically what you have is a bunch of people who are angry. You get mad when you lose a ballgame or marbles or something you take your marbles and your ball and you go home. It is also racially motivated. A lot of these people were brought up in a time when racism is rampant. Hese people are still living these Tea Party People are directly trying to destroy this government from within. After bill at it, clinton and them balance the budget, the very next year when bush and cheney took office, it doesnt matter. They give it all back to tax breaks. Youlanced budget if Grover Norquist plan to destroy the government, dont let the government of democrats, act like the democrats act like the deficit matters when it really doesnt. Caller i absolutely think it is worth it. We have had so much trouble Getting Health Care where i am living in a world area. It has nothing to do with race or anything else this has to do with what the American People want. We want to stand up and be heard. We have been heard. It is about time. I hope this goes through. I am praying for. I think it is best for the whole country. We dont need any more debt. We need to shut this down and stop it and make things right again. You may have heard some of the president s comments before i started the show this morning. A little bit more from the forddent who spoke at a plant in missouri yesterday. He chastised republicans over the vote that they were planning and over efforts to stop the healthcare law. Heres what he had to say. Unfortunately, there is a faction on the phone at the Republican Party right now. It is not everybody, but it is a big faction who convinced their leadership to threaten a Government Shutdown and potentially threaten to not raise the debt ceiling if they cant shut off the Affordable Care act, also known as obamacare. Think about this, they are not talking now about spending cuts. They are not talking about entitlement reforms. Were not talking about any of that, now theyre talking about something that has nothing to do with the budget. They are actually willing to plunge america into if we cant defund the Affordable Care act. Ets put this in perspective the Affordable Care act has been in the law for three and a half years. It passed both houses of congress, the supreme court, it was an issue in last his election. The guy who is running against me said he was going to repeal it, we won. The Washington Post this morning has a list of some of the things that would remain intact. According to the office of employees and budget, who provide for National Security including the conduct of National Security. More of that in the Washington Post this morning. Next up, this is james from phoenix, arizona. He says it is not worth it. Shutting down the government over Something Like this is stupid. Everybody needs healthcare. 60 of the people are going bankrupt over health care. It is something we need. With the financial situation like it is where everybody else thehe world is going down tubes, we dont need to follow them. Arguments atre some republicans put forth at us about costs, overall costs, how do you react to that . Caller oh, they can cover costs when the bill came up. Makeshould have tried to their argument when they were there for the bill. Now theyre shutting down the government. Host we will hear next from rick in oceanside california who thinks it is worth it. Hello. Rick, youre on. It is worthi think shutting it down for the simple fact that the constitution stands for the United States and i believe that obamacare is a socialistic regime taking over. Courseowing the natural of the constitution to function. I think it is worth it. Thank you. Is up next from edgewater, new jersey. She says it is not worth it. High. Caller good morning to you. Thank you for taking my call. I dont think this is worth it. I think what is so surprising is that there are enormous rippling effects. I was able to check art of the president s speech to the Business Community earlier this week. From a business perspective, he made some compelling arguments about what the social responsibility of the corporation is and what the corporation can do to interact with the American People, from all different points of view. That is what you are seeing right now. Youre seeing this battle of points of view. Right now, there are those who say it is the tyranny of the minority and that these individuals on the republican side are fighting for what they believe the country should be on a course of or type of trajectory. There are plenty of republicans that dont believe that as of october 1 the entire Financial System should take a Ripple Effect that could be enormously harmful globally. People are moving forward. They want progressive solutions. So i am willing to listen to the president talk about a bill that is law that can be modified. Thate republicans believe some aspects of it are bad and some are good, then allow the law to stand and then correct the parts that are incorrect. They have more power to do that. We want to see them work together. It is not feasible that it continues this way. In the New York Times you will see an article that talks about this issue. There is a part to to this story, though. As the New York Times highlights. Gregory, youre up next from florida. You say it is worth it. Caller it is definitely worth it. The democrats passed this with no republicans and now the ublicans are in power and in just one aspect of the government and that is the wrong rest. Theyre doing the best to get the American People want. Statesimum of the united population wants this law done away with. Keep stopping everything that comes over. This is just congresss way of upting these to to take it so that the electorate can see what the senators are doing and then perhaps we can get a change in the senate. Thank you. Host do you think that change will happen in the senate . Caller there are problems with this scenario. Even Warren Buffett who is the president s friend does not think that this is going to be a problem. He says the shutdown wont cause the ripple that people are talking about. I think someone like him would know. Host the viewer mentioned that he poll in the New York Times is a c paul taking questions about the president s Health Care Law. Heres the question. As you may know, that was a pullback in i was a poll taken back in may. Morningsking you this if you think a Government Shutdown over the Health Care Law is worth it. In fortmavis lauderdale, florida. She says it is not worth it. Good morning, mavis. Say to mostlyd the republicans, it is not worth it. Tell their congressmen to give up their healthcare that we out here, the Little People are paying for them and their families. I dont understand who in the world that is born who does not need healthcare . Mississippi, louisiana, arkansas, oklahoma, it is amazing. I have german to the states and people are talking about roadkill because they cant afford meat . Things are tough out here. Steve king has been getting millions of dollars for farming and he does not farm. The farm bill was fine. Look how much Congress People got money for that. Go ahead and give some of that money back so we can pay for healthcare for everybody. We are entitled to healthcare. The farm bill being a topic on our program. You can see it at 9 15 this morning. Knoll in new york says it is worth it. Are a i believe there couple things. At present already gave a one year waiver to a large business. He was also looking to give a waiver to congress. We also know that a Cleveland Clinic is chopping employees because they cant employ them on the insurance program. We know that home depot is chopping people. Arenow that the unions uprising and dont want to have it either. There employees are union members. A shutdown of the u. S. Government has happened many times before it is not a big deal and we can live with it, but i dont think we can live with obamacare. Even all the people in the union are tried to get away from it. Red ande next color is he joins us from florida. He says it is not worth it. Good morning. Caller i think it is not worth it because theyre not going to get enough money in their one percent hands. They are greedy and what theyre doing is spent 80 of the money on the patient. That leaves them 20 to divide amongst these greedy as obese. Host so who is the they . Said they are doing this. Who are the they . Caller caller the one percent to have all the money in this country. Host this is bridget in huddleston, virginia. She says it is worth it. Bridget, good morning. Yes, i think our government gives away too much. The blue Collar Worker just give give give. Host what would a Government Shutdown accomplish, then . Hopefully they would start listening to the taxpayers. A message we are going to give to everybody. We are out there working every day to pay for everybody else that doesnt want to work or is unable to work. Representative for the state of ohio in congress is now the head of the main street partnership. It is an organization of centrist republicans as they bill themselves. They talk about these issues saying dont lay in the House Speaker. That is the headline that you will find in the Washington Post this morning. Other members of the house believe it is their only responsibility as a member of congress to show up and vote no. Frankly, they take such a dim view of their job that a trained monkey could do what they do. Gene from new york. He says it is not worth it. Good morning. Caller this is not only not worth it, this is absolutely treasonous on the part of the republicans. We have to protect our countrys reputation and its status. We have to pay bills that we have already accrued. For them to keep attaching their possession to obamacare to everything that they try to push through is absolutely obscene and pointless. Such as obamacare needs tweaking. Social security went through a variety of upgrades and changes as it was developing. So did medicare, so did medicaid. Obamacare will need to go through changes as time goes by, but to not let this law go into effect is in my opinion treasonous and totally irresponsible. Host what about the cost concerns that republicans keep ringing up . There costhink concerns are ridiculous. There are ways in which this is going to be paid for and we are a wealthy country. We have to take care of those who need it. Everybody who doesnt have health care does need it. Here isat is gene, william from kentucky. He says it is worth it. High. I think that the house and the senate are being bullies to the president and i dont part of the is United States. There are a lot of people that need this. The ones that are for this are the poor and the ones that are against us of the rich. I vote that they let gone through if the government wants theyown, so be it. Couldnt pick off the president. He has more power than they do and this is all worth it. If a Government Shutdown does shutdown, then what is it worth . What is the purpose e caller caller he stood his ground and said he was tried to make this a better place for the poor and the rich. Host one of the voices weighing in on the activities this week is a republican from louisiana. A chairman of the republican study committee. At 10 00 andsunday also at 6 00 in the evening. He talked with two reporters about issues concerning reportable care act. But issues concerning the Affordable Care act. Here is what he has to say. There is a public outcry going on through the country. So many of the senators like senator landrieu of louisiana. She is going to face election like next year. Theyre going to keep in place even though the president himself says that it isnt workable. If anything does come back, if they dont model legislative tools we have available, rarely we plan on tackling the debt ceiling next week also. We are going to make sure that the country pays our debts. We are also going to make sure that the president s Health Care Law will be delayed and also addressed the economy. Were going to put provisions like the Keystone Pipeline in the bill and say look this is going to create over 25,000 jobs. The president has listened to special interest and turn away those jobs for now. When we say yes to those american jobs and get our economy moving again . Over tos feared passing the senate are showing that we are doing our job and fighting to keep government fu