If it is handled correctly a government shutdown can be
exactly what America needs.
On Tuesday, October 1st
I was perusing the sports page of the San Francisco Chronicle on my iPad. Old
habits die hard where sports teams are concerned. My eye was caught by a link
in the sidebar with a headline to the effect that the government shutdown had
started because Congress had “failed to avert disaster.” Once again the sky is
falling the world will end and we are all going to die - or maybe not.
The truth of the matter is that a government shutdown
isn’t all that much of a big deal. While Nancy Pelosi says that there isn’t a
single area where the government budget can be cut, she is wrong. The proof of
the matter is that the people who will be laid off during the shutdown are
considered “non-essential”; that is, unnecessary. If they are unnecessary, one
has to wonder why they were hired in the first place.
The total number of people laid off approximates 800,000.
It isn’t a small number, but it isn’t a disastrous number, either; especially
because these people are government employees, many of whom do nothing to
create value in an economy. It is very different from a for-profit business
where everyone is supposed to create marketable value. Government employees are
under no such requirement……To Read More…..
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