Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Closed!

I sat down at the keyboard with the intent of trying to make some sense out of the budget issues, ObamaCare, and the federal government shut down.

You know what?  It makes no sense.

It makes the Republicans look obstructionist and the group that threw hundreds of thousands of people out of work.

There's a rule in politics:  never let your opponent define you.  The Democrats failed.  The Republicans called the shots, and the Obama administration did a poor job of selling the Affordable Health Care Act to the American people.

We'll likely discover this week that we don't need as many government employees as we have, and life goes on, in spite of the shut down.

There are no winners and losers here.  The shut down, even a short one, shows how the American government is failing its citizens.  We cannot find solutions to our problems, and the people we elected to lead don't lead at all.

And we continue to wonder why people stay home on election day.

Shut downs are nothing new.  However, it's still a sad and sorry time in our history.