Government Shutdown: Congress

Congress: The American system of governance the president vs. Congress, Senate vs. the House, feds vs. the states was designed to encourage restraint and compromise. Lately it has produced the opposite, due principally to an excess of partisanship and special interests, according to The Star. Anti-Morsi forces were funded by billionaires and other undemocratic forces. American billionaires buy up politicians and groups to delegitimize and minimize government and The government shutdown in the United States has some parallels with Egypt and other places where democracy is thwarted, mostly by sabotaging the will of the voters and the rule of law. Many Republicans hate Barack Obama with the same intensity as the Egyptian secularists did Mohammed Morsi, the elected president they toppled. Despite Obamas convincing wins in 2008 and 2012, Republicans have been fixated on derailing his presidency no matter the cost to the country. In their latest manoeuvre , they held him hostage 17 days hoping to undermine Obamacare, passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.