What is a Government Shutdown?

By Greg Evans

The government periodically shuts down because politicians are involved.

What is a politician? An slippery, nameless and faceless blob that gets paid to do nothing, does nothing, and when they do, do something, it generally doesn’t matter and more often than not, makes things worse than they were. Those who benefit from it, financially, call it progress.

Government shutdowns occur because politicians have nothing better to do than fight over how to spend your money. They use their own money to insider trade and make fortunes. They spend your money on meaningless endeavors such the “Green New Scam fund”.

Remember that, all you young idealists who regularly go out to vote as uninformed as if you were flying into space on a space shuttle with absolutely zero training.

Those shadowy, sterile, spendthrifts whose hands rest in your pockets, have all the power, maybe more than even the President, in certain circumstances. They decide what happens, and if their sketchy policies aren’t funded, they can “reject” things such as the stopgap funding which funds the government so it can function. Rejecting this stopgap funding creates a temporary shutdown. Generally, shutdowns don’t last more than 10 days; the last one stretching 35 days, but these are different times.

Of course non-essential government employees (including members of the US Military and National Park employees) are furloughed or forced to work without pay, or retroactive pay, but politicians don’t care about them. They never have. Great benefits, for a while, until you are canned.

I personally go to National Museums and National Parks (Civil War battlefields anyway, and they should never be closed). Those who caused this shutdown will have to pay, financially, and now they will, according to news hot on the wire. Nearly $8 billion to fuel climate agendas are cancelled. Payback is a fork in the eye.

The irony for this shutdown occurred because Senate Democrats were furious that the new bill wouldn’t extend funding for Affordable Care Act subsidies. So, essentially government workers that want to work, can’t, so people who don’t want to work can get their subsidies.

And that there defines 4,000 years of asinine behavior by politicians who have been the same since the Sumerians or the ancient Greeks or Romans. It is a delicate subject if you’re not the one getting paid.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - unknown), the great journalist and thinker now forgotten in today’s world of scrolling, once defined a politician as cogently as anyone ever has.

In his “Devil’s Dictionary,” he wrote,

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of an edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

Hopefully that provides you some insight into what a government shutdown is and why it occurred this time, and why the culprits deserve to punished by taking away their spending money. No more credit card for you babe. Time to clean out the stalls, they’re starting to smell.

The President announces this shutdown is an “unprecedented opportunity” to thin out the weak in the herd by retiring the unnecessary government agencies clogging Washington D.C. like a sticky hairball in the drain.

And you thought a government shutdown wasn’t very interesting.