My prediction: No Americans will die during this "national emergency" today.

[Barack_America]

But, today...

123 Americans will still die due to lack of health care access

7000 American teenagers will drop out of high school

Thousands of Americans will lose their jobs

Thousands more will lose their homes to foreclosure


Can we, as a nation, please get a grip on what a true "national emergency" is?

[DeSwiss]

1. K&R

State of National Emergency in effect since September 2001

The United States has been in a state of national emergency continuously since 2001 September 14, when the Bush administration invoked it premised on the September 11 attacks. In September 2010, President Barack Obama informed Congress that the State of National Emergency in effect since September 14, 2001, will be extended another year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act

[Enrique]

2. eighteen veterans committ suicide every day

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_51f79986-e322-11df-980d-001cc4c03286.html

[Barack_America]

5. Indeed.

We face a sadly countless number of national emergencies, few of which are actually being addressed at all.

[GSLevel9]

3. post of the day? nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. K&R!

:thumbsup:

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. We are in a national emergency today???

Color me clueless.
No tv.

[Barack_America]

7. Somebody sent some toner cartridges and wires from Yemen...

...no explosives, mind you. And now we've got wall-to-wall media coverage and planes being escorted by fighter jets just because they contain cargo from Yemen.

Yep. We didn't just jump the shark, we pole-vaulted that sucker!

But interest in the tens of thousands of American kids who will go to bed without dinner tonight? Not so much.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. One could overdose on laughter at the notion of "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave."