A lot of people wonder what a government shutdown would be like. I think a lot more people wonder what a government running properly would be like. – Jay Leno
It is Friday evening, the 30th of August 2013. It is the beginning of the Labor Day weekend. To listen to the Administration and actually most of the politicians in Washington, you'd think that this day should stand out as a day so very terrible that it has never before occurred in history. According to
what we hear, and to what the Ministry of Propaganda (a.ka. the mainstream media in America) warns us, even the contemplation of this day should bring a shudder to us all. Yet it is passing almost unnoticed and yes, friends and neighbors.....the GOVERNMENT HAS SHUT DOWN for 3 days! Until Tuesday morning, September 3rd, the bureaucrats and spendthrift politicians who torture us all during the week have been forced to abandon their desks, cease issuing liberty strangling regulations, and go home. All essential government services, defense, the FBI, NSA spying on American citizens, etc. remain running as they must during any government shutdown and as is dictated by law but all non-essential personnel have abandoned ship. As an aside, someone once noted that if we have so many non-essential people, why do we have them at all?......but I digress and that's a discussion for another time.
What is occurring over this Labor Day weekend is exactly what would happen if Obama (read that correctly it would be Obama, no one else) shuts the government down during the coming talks on the continuing resolution to fund that very government. The Republicans in the House, at least those who have a spine have told Obama that they will pass the continuing resolution budget to keep the government running. What they want however is to not fund that portion of the resolution that supports the continuing implementation of Obamacare. The very same Obamacare that all major surveys tell us most Americans don’t want. The same Obamacare that all of the politicians who shoved it down our throats behind closed doors at midnight don’t want either, but not to worry! …….they’ve exempted themselves from it! Its Obama, not the Republicans, who would have to be the one to order the government shutdown as a result of any stalemate on the continuing resolution. The hapless House and Senate Republicans however just can’t seem to get this message across to the rest of America and they continue to let the Administration run (and score!) with the scare ball. The buzzwords from the Administration, from the Democrats, and from those lame Republicans who do nothing but support the status quo all center on the phrase "government shutdown". They continue to try (and apparently successfully in many cases) to terrify us all with the consequences of such a shutdown. Some examples of what might be overheard in Congress and by the politicians during their interviews on mainstream and other networks these days include: "Shutting down the government is NOT an option …. Do you know what will happen to you if we let the government shut down? ...... We can't let the government shut down!..... Your lives will come to a grinding halt if we let the government shut down!...... Your Iphone will quit working if the government shuts down! (not to worry, it won't) Your babies won’t eat and there will be chaos in the streets if we let the government shut down!....... We’ll have to stay home and miss our interview on CNN if we let the government shut down!" And etcetera, etcetera, ad nauseam.
Let’s examine the history of this catastrophic event that the career politicians and the Obama Administration seem to wish to convince us has never occurred. Times are midnight of the dates given:
- September 30 to October 11, 1976 (10 days)
- September 30 to October 13, 1977 (12 days)
- October 31 to November 9, 1977 (8 days)
- November 30 to December 9, 1977 (8 days)
- September 30 to October 18, 1978 (18 days
- September 30 to October 12, 1979 (11 days)
- November 20 to November 23, 1981 (2 days)
- September 30 to October 2, 1982 (1 day)
- December 17 to December 21, 1982 (3 days)
- November 10 to November 14, 1983 (3 days)
- September 30 to October 3, 1984 (2 days)
- October 3 to October 5, 1984 (1 day)
- October 16 to October 18, 1986 (1 day)
- December 18 to December 20, 1987 (1 day)
- October 5 to October 9, 1990 (3 days)
- November 13 to November 19, 1995 (5 days)
- December 5, 1995 to January 6, 1996 (21 days)
Meaningless votes by the House Republicans to overturn Obamacare that are then just round filed by Harry Reid in the Senate without even being brought to the floor don't cut it. Meaningless votes just to tell your constituents back home that you voted to overturn Obamacare, all the while knowing that they are just that....MEANINGLESS and going absolutely nowhere.....don't cut it anymore either. The politicians and the rest of the Obama corporatist cronies and campaign donors and Congress have all saved themselves from Obamacare. Now it's time for them to stand up for America and save the rest of us.
I look forward to the government shutdown each Friday as the best part of the week.