Here we go again, another last minute bill to keep the government open. The bill will likely fail and we will have three for four days of the government being shut down, the horrors! Having survived the last shutdown while in DC and working at a government site I find the biggest problem with these government shut downs is that the government isn't shut down. The problem as I see it is that these half-baked government shutdowns is that it re-enforces what the anti-government crowd already believes, that the government doesn't do anything and that we're fine without it. I think a true shutdown would be interesting. First, I'd send home everyone in military, all of them. Okay maybe keep a security staff so no one steals the lights (or bombs). Then send home the TSA, the border patrol and customs. I hope nobody plans on flying, entering or leaving the US is is waiting for products from other countries because...well...you'll just have to wait till the government opens. Shut down the post offices. Shut down the DEA. Close all national parks. Shut down the CDC and pray no one with ebola enters the country. Social Security recipients, sorry you'll get your check later. Same goes for Medicare, shutter it. And states (mostly the south) you won't be getting your welfare checks from the north so you might have to stop building some roads, hiring police and teachers. Did I mention the children (you know politicians always do things with "the children" in mind), I hope you aren't in Head Start because funding is gone, go home and watch cartoons. I hope there is food in the pantry because SNAP & WIC are not there to help.
Let's do it, let's shut the whole damn thing down and let's just see how we all do. Who's with me?
