Let the Government Shut Down

Let the damn federal government shut down, I say. It's happened many times before and we're all still alive. Besides, if the federal government can't make it on the $2.2 trillion a year it takes in without borrowing out the wazoo, screw 'em. 

Barack the Terrible and his merry band of leftists have been busy trying to scare the crap out of everyone about the horrors that will befall all of us if the government shuts down. Barry bitterly complains about partisanship on the one hand while he claims Republicans want to "burn down the economy" by allowing the government to shut down. Other of the Democrat partisan political hacks have said worse. That stupid old bastard Harry Reid calls the Republicans "anarchists". Barbara Mikulski, the senate troll from Maryland blames the government shutdown that has not yet occurred on "the teabaggers" -- a vulgar and childish term I thought the leftists had gotten past. At any rate, Barbara the troll probably has the balls and the motivation to use them in the vulgar way intended by the term. If anyone on the Republican side had engaged in the types of partisan attacks Barry's buddies actually engage in, we wouldn't hear the end of it. But Barry's buddies are the worst partisans of all and that goes virtually unreported in the media.



The media also don't report that the president who calls Republicans and Tea Party types who are in favor of fiscal sanity "extremists" was mentored by a Communist, launched his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist and spent 20 years in a church where the preacher preached leftist hate speech like "God damn America". The complicit media give Barack the Terrible cover to accuse Republicans of making partisan attacks and wanting to shut down the government. In reality, the only people who actually want to shut down the government are Barack the Terrible and his cabal of leftist thugs. They talk about it all the time. Barry falls all over himself to kiss the ass of the Ayatollah's puppet but flatly refuses to negotiate with House Republicans who, constitutionally, hold the power of the purse, on the plan they have put forward to fund the government and save us all from Obamacare or at least postpone it.  .

Remember the last time the government shut down? Wait a minute, you don't? I'll give you a hint. It was December 1995. Yes, 1995 was in the age of the Internet so you can actually link to news articles from the period.

What happened on December 16, 1995? Well, this is what happened on Dec. 16, 1995. You'll probably remember this if you are 40 or older:

First of all, the world didn't end, the sun came up in the morning every day right on schedule. The economy didn't plunge into of never-ending death spiral. Ordinary average Americans got up in the morning; they made coffee, they had breakfast, they went off to work, they went to the store, they bought gas, they went home, they went to their kids' sporting events or dance recitals, they went Christmas shopping (this is way back when it was okay to call it Christmas) -- in short, they were utterly unaffected by the three-week government shutdown.

As you will find out if you click the link above, there were Americans who were affected by the government shutdown -- Americans who were unfortunate enough to work for what was even back then the bloated federal government. For most Americans, the government shutdown was either a non-event or the best thing that ever happened to them. Unless you were a government employee or trying to get into a national park, you would never have known the government was shut down. And all the government employees got back pay after the shutdown. Getting a huge check after the three-week layoff beats the hell out of being out of work permanently in the Obama economy never to get a check for years and quit the job market out of sheer discouragement.

What did the Republicans get out of the last government shutdown? They got welfare reform that cut the welfare roles drastically, by limiting the amount of time one could remain on welfare. Millions of Americans who weren't otherwise inclined decided that working was better than starving and went out and found jobs and everyone benefited: The taxpayer by not having to pay to support millions of deadbeats and the deadbeats themselves from finding out that work actually pays and it feels good to be pulling your own weight.  After seventeen years, Barack the Terrible killed this reform with an executive order and the number of welfare recipients has been soaring ever since.

This time, Republicans are presented with the same type of bargain. The majority of Americans instinctively know Obamacare is a lousy law: Many of them have first-hand experience with drastic premium increases due to Obamacare mandates or loss of coverage altogether due to their employer's inability to cover sharply rising premium costs. Many young people are finding out what the scam is: That this whole scheme is to be funded by their payment of huge premiums on policies they will barely use so that this ponzi scheme can redistribute their money to old folks and people with pre-existing conditions. Every other day we find out that another portion of this massive resdistributionist scam is being delayed because the logistics aren't working out. Groups that formerly backed the plan (even boasted about "helping to write it") are finding out that it will tax their their health plans out of existence. Now is the perfect time for Republicans to stand fast against this scam. People oppose it by a huge margin, 90% of people will be utterly unaffected by the shutdown and we have an opportunity to save the country from the scourge of Obamacare for decades to come.

Let the federal government go into partial government shut down: Republicans and the rest of us have a hell of a lot more to gain than we have to lose.