Governo fecha em 1/10/2013 e deixa de pagar a divida publica: muito bom para ser verdade?

Calma. Não é no Brasil.

Infelizmente para os anarco-liberais, que gostariam de ver fechado o governo (pois ele só gasta dinheiro perdulariamente, deixa a corrupção correr solta, é incompetente e interfere demais na atividade produtiva), e para os esquerdistas ingênuos, que gostariam de dar um calote nos banqueiros (ignorando que quem financia o governo não são os banqueiros, mas toda a população), a medida está sendo tomada nos Estados Unidos, onde certas coisas acontecem de fato, não nesta terra de fantasia.

Paulo Roberto de Almeida

WASHINGTON — House Republicans muscled through a stopgap bill Friday that would fund the government only if all spending for President Obama’s health care law is eliminated. Senate Democrats and President Obama quickly made it clear they had no intention of going along, putting the government on a course toward a shutdown unless one side relents. 

The 230-to-189 party-line vote in a bitterly divided House set in motion a fiscal confrontation with significant implications — politically and economically — but with an uncertain ending. Without a resolution, large parts of the government could shut down Oct. 1, and a first-ever default on federal debt could follow weeks later.  

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A government shutdown would be unsightly and could harm the economy, directly through the furloughs of government workers and indirectly by undermining confidence in the nation’s governance. But Democrats, economists and some Republicans warn that a debt default would likely be worse, shaking the world’s faith in Treasury debt, widely seen as the safest investment possible, and roiling the global economy. 

Holding the federal funding bill hostage “is bad enough, but the debt ceiling is cataclysmic,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York.

The New York Times, September 21, 2013