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The govt. was never meant to be so big that it could be "shut down".
For instance...wtf were they doing spending our money holding hearings on baseball players doing steroids? Hell, Barry Bonds is about to go to prison for denying it. They are spending tax money RIGHT NOW on prosecuting him and have his best friend in prison (at taxpayer expense) because he refuses to cooperate with Big Brother.
And the 100 million other things they do that they should not be doing. All the "services" and hundreds of thousands of people employed by the govt. to do all the bullshit clerical work.
The federal govt. is WAY too big.
Congress wasn't even supposed to be in session all the time. They were supposed to live at home and have real jobs and only convene when important national matters needed to be handled.
They have only TWO constitutional purposes.
1. To declare war (and we see how they haven't done that since the 1940's...even though we keep invading countries and bombing them constantly)
2. To pass a federal budget.
And that second one? Well...without getting all political (because I don't think Dems or Republicans are much different in private and all need to be sent home), the budget for 2011 was SUPPOSED to be submitted in 2010. But Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi didn't want to vote it through because of the MASSIVE debt it adds to. They didn't want their losses at the polls to be even worse than they already are.
So they put it off until after the election.
They had a majority in both House and Senate and COULD have passed it without the Republicans doing a damn thing.
And now...with Republicans in the House who were sent to their office by the voters to CUT spending, they would be wrong and going against the people's will if they voted for a bloated budget.
In my humble opinion...the only people who would even notice if the govt. "Shut down" would be people who work for the govt. and/or are on the dole from the govt.
Yes, that is a lot of people. But the majority of us out here who don't want a damn thing to do with the govt. wouldn't even notice it. They could all go home for several months before anyone not dependent on govt. would even notice it.
The govt. is too damn big. And it needs to be reigned in. Don't want to argue politics. That's just my opinion. And it looks like these days about half the people share my opinion while about half want the govt. as big as it is or even bigger.
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