Shut down again!

Once again, the Congress have proven themselves incapable of running the country. If this drags on as long as the last shutdown did, we can soon expect the government to go into sequester-- again. Even that may not be enough, this time around, because we have never recovered completely from the last sequester. Here is a six step plan for getting the Congress to drop their bickering and do their job.

1. First, fire ALL employees of the Congress: their secretaries, housekeepers, janitors, and the guys who clear snow from their parking lot. ALL.  Permanently.
2. Cancel the Senators' and Representatives' pay for the duration of the shutdown.
3. Stop funding for the Secret Service agents who protect the Congressmen when they are not physically within the halls of Congress, doing their job.
4. Close all departments of the US Government except for the military, the border patrol, the federal courts, and the prisons.

Interstate transportation will pretty much cease within a week. Store shelves will be empty within two weeks. Within three weeks, there will be millions of very hungry and very angry citizens.

THEN,

5. Reopen roads and flights, but only those going to and from Washington, DC.
6. Hold new elections to replace all the dead or missing Congressmen.

Don't like this scenario? There are two other possibilities:
-- let the country continue to "run on empty" for the indefinite future.
-- vote the current Congress out, and SEND NO ONE BACK!

Shut down?

Remember the last time that Congress couldn't agree on a budget bill and allowed the government to be shut down?  It was only four years ago. That time it was the Republicans who dug in their heels over one relatively minor issue, and shut down the government when they couldn't get their way. Now it's the Democrats. Didn't the Democrats learn anything from that?

Well, yes, they did! They learned that, far from losing the following mid-term elections, the Republicans gained seats in Congress, and won the next Presidential election. They learned that a politician can thumb his nose at the American voters, refuse to do the job they elected him to do, and we will forget it before the next election. That actions do NOT speak louder than words. And that they can get away with ANYTHING.

THE SAME PEOPLE are still in Congress! NOTHING will change unless we vote them out. Both parties are responsible. VOTE THEM ALL OUT! 

There are plenty of smart, talented people in both parties. Let's get rid of all the bad apples, and give someone else a chance. Send No One Back!