Collecting money will always be essential.
Sure, especially when you're spending it in insane amounts that no one has.
If government never reopens, virtually no one will be better off. We'll be a failed nation. On the other hand, the majority of the federal government is still in operation.
Heh. Like there's the remotest chance in hell the government will never 'reopen'. Like you say, it isn't *really* shut down anyway. If it remained at the capacity of only spending on what's actually needed and not tons of useless bullshit (IE: the 'shutdown' IE: what should be closer to normal operating) there might be the slightest glimmer of chance that despite our unfunded liabilities bomb that WILL absolutely make this nation fail eventually, that we could be something other than that for a bit longer. Even then, it'd only be a slight chance.
A government that had to switch to a results-based model like every other functioning entity on the planet (rather than a just throw endless amounts of other people's money in the least-effective ways possible at things in order to re-elect the same nitwits based model) would be the best thing that ever happened to this country. Of course, none of this will happen, so it's all just an exercise in wishful thinking anyway.
Government shutdown= some bureaucrats get a temporary vacation while their bosses look for ways to make the public give a shit. Their worst nightmare is more people waking up and saying to themselves- "wait, these dimbulbs that have pissed the entire nation's money supply down the toilet and still scream for more are 'shut down' and yet life goes on as always and I don't miss a single thing they supposedly need to put everyone into debt for... WTF??!"
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