Unnecessary shutdowns

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

The federal government is shutting down a lot of things that are either don't need to be shut down (because they cost no money to operate) or actually cost more to shut down than they do to keep operating. These include both national parks and government agency websites.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/10/84362-13-national-parks-impacted-government-shutdown/
http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/02/government-will-shut-down-websites-even

We're at the point where the government is just being petty and working on zooming well past that point.

For those who think it's justified because the Republicans won't budge on Obamacare, that just doesn't fit the facts.



As a libertarian, I'm fine with permanently cutting 800,000 federal workers and I think it's nice that they've identified the agencies we can do without, but I'd rather it happen with at least the standard 2-week warning for people. Pretty much all politicians in office right now are acting like children, but that's what happens when the electorate is also.

Comments

[telemann.livejournal.com]

You suggested and sort of made it seem silly to suggest that it would happen under any circumstance. Clearly it has.

[notmrgarrison.livejournal.com]

Seems like people have been suggesting it would only happen during a shutdown.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

And it seems some suggested it couldn't happen at all regardless of a shutdown, huh?

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

I thought I was making it seem silly to suggest that anything out of the ordinary would happen if they left it open. Why would anyone make a point of how bad it would be to do so unless they believed there was something that would happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise had the shutdown not happened?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

The word salad is getting really silly at this juncture. It happened with staff, it can happen without staff, and would seem even more likely without staff.

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[cheezyfish.livejournal.com]

So you know, the logical thing would to do would be to barricade the place off and then have your staff guard the barricades, instead of you know, the memorials themselves.