As I’m sure you may know, the government shut down this week for the first time in eighteen years. The reason it had shut down was because Congress wasn’t doing their job and could not agree on a solution. Congress’s key duty in the government is to pass spending bills that fund the government. If this does not happen, everything else comes to a stop. Many federal funded programs were closed and many worked or went home without pay. The reason it took so long for the two parties to decide on an answer was because the Replications wanted to slow funding on Obama-care, but the Democrats did not agree. Neither party was willing to budge. The government is currently still on shut down. Hopefully they can make a decision quickly. Personally I feel that the people that couldn’t make the decision and the head government should be the ones without pay. They sit on their butts, twiddling there thumbs all day, not coming up with answers. You can see affects all around our own community. People’s parents are without pay, and our own state land and range did not have judges. If the government does not come up with a solution soon, we may be for a world of hurt.
Yan, Holly. “Government Shutdown: Get up to Speed in 20 Questions.” CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 07 Oct. 2013. <http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/politics/government-shutdown-up-to-speed/index.html>.
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