The Wall. The Shutdown

[clodhopper]

It just seems like no matter what happens, we all lose. It's really a shame.

And that is why gridlock is a preferred governmental condition.

[Gman]

Yep. When they're working, it's not for our betterment. When they're not working, they can't screw us.

...unfortunately, the Feds have involved themselves into way too many aspects of our daily lives, so when business can't move forward, it hurts.

[kidicarus13]

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross...
?Banks and credit unions should be making credit available to them,? Ross said. ?Now true, the people might have to pay a little bit of interest, but the idea that it's paycheck or zero is not a really valid idea.?

[clodhopper]

...unfortunately, the Feds have involved themselves into way too many aspects of our daily lives, so when business can't move forward, it hurts.

A shutdown is a perfect opportunity for the general population to better understand all the bullcrap interference the feds pull, and possibly get enough people to demand some of it reset. Just like the common question of whether the shutdown has had an effect on your life.

I truly wish no one had to lose a job, ...but... for the long term good I am hoping some of the shutdown facets of the feds are deemed unnecessary and eliminated.

[Irving]

Maybe we'll get lucky and some of the future jobs lost to automation that we always hear about will be politician jobs.

[MrPrena]

Shorter terms and term limit.

[CS1983]

[OtterbatHellcat]

I'll be criticized for this I'm sure, but I think you should have enough bank saved up to live for several months without pay as general practice, no matter who you work for.

If you blew everything you made, every check....don't cry to anyone about it.....Especially if you have a GOV job. How many times have they shut down now?...and you can't eat because you didn't save anything back? If sixty days without pay is going to get you hungry and evicted, you're living beyond your means with a flippant idea about the future.

I say this because I'm tired of the media stories sensationalizing "the family that can't eat" because of the shut down.

[hurley842002]

I'll be criticized for this I'm sure, but I think you should have enough bank saved up to live for several months without pay as general practice, no matter who you work for.

If you blew everything you made, every check....don't cry to anyone about it.....Especially if you have a GOV job. How many times have they shut down now?...and you can't eat because you didn't save anything back? If sixty days without pay is going to get you hungry and evicted, you're living beyond your means with a flippant idea about the future.

I say this because I'm tired of the media stories sensationalizing "the family that can't eat" because of the shut down.

It would appear you have a flawed sense of reality for many people. Do you have kids by chance?

[Irving]

My wife keeps asking me if I think things will get bad because of this and every time I tell her no. The thing that bothers me is the idea that people are being evicted. Whatever. A squatter could move into your house and it'd take you six months to get them evicted through the courts. No one is getting evicted this fast.