"Democrats and Republicans are united in the belief that fiscal drama in Congress that's transfixed both Wall Street and Main Street over the past few days is crazy."
"The government is on the verge of its first shutdown in 17 years because some Republican members in the House are insisting that President Obama either delay or repeal parts of Obamacare, his signature legislative achievement. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress have vowed to quash any efforts to gut the law, technically called the Affordable Care Act."
The political theatrics between both parties are nothing more than theatrics. All of the issues coming up now with the threat of a shutdown have been there for months or years, and are simply being used to scare the public into accepting more inflation, regulation, and big government.
"If the federal government shuts down, CNN estimates that about 783,000 government workers will be furloughed as will thousands of contract employees that support them. People who need everything from a passport to a gun permit to a federal loan would have to wait as would paychecks to members of the Armed Forces. National parks would be shuttered as would the Smithsonian Museums, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Washington. Processing of oil and gas permits on federal lands would grind to a halt."
Most services offered by the government should be allowed to shutter, shifting to the private sector. With more and more public employees, and fewer taxpayers in the private sector, this game of legal plunder only has one end, and its not pretty. The government won't shut down, but it wouldn't be such a bad thing if it did.
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