The bottom line: When the government shuts down, it does not really shut down, and all the inconvenience, the heartache, the lack of public services, and the economic woes do not affect politicians, it affects only the rest of us. Many of the politicians take exotic vacations at the expense of the taxpayer during their shutdown. Maybe that was the idea all along?
The so-called “doomsday” scenario of a long shutdown as told by Darea Gregorian of MSNBC is this:
- 38 million low-income Americans lose food stamps
- 6 million face an uncertain timetable for collecting tax refunds
- 2 million without rental assistance and facing possible eviction
- 800,000 paycheck-less federal employees plunged into dire financial straits
- Shuttered parks and museums while overstressed airports cause tourism to tank
- Federal court system slows to a crawl
- Disaster relief money doesn’t get to storm-ravaged areas
- Lapsed FDA and EPA inspections lead to dangerous outbreaks
- Private companies looking to go public are stuck in limbo
- Stock market plummets
As far as I can tell by reading this list, the “devastating impact” of a shutdown is bad for low level government workers, those attempting to get back some of the money stolen from them by taxes, welfare recipients, tourists, and stock investors. Politicians are not on this list. One of the “disastrous” effects mentioned is that the Federal Court system will slow to a crawl.” Thank the stars for that! How could that happen, as it now takes years for anything to get done at all!
Yes, there is some pain and some inconvenience due to the fake shutdown, but that pain and inconvenience is piled on the proletariat, not the elites in government. It is meant to arouse and anger the regular folk, so that they will scream and bawl to get their goodies back, not realizing the fact that this was the idea all along.
After all this the political propagandists of both parties will blame each other, and both will attempt to claim victory in getting the government back to “work.” Given the stupidity of the American voter, both sides will claim that victory, both sides will be wrong, and the Democrats will still hate the Republicans, and the Republicans will still hate the Democrats. In other words, the government wins.
The only proper solution would be for the people to accept whole heartedly any shutdown, and then expand it and make it permanent.
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