What Will I Miss
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While some shutter at the prospect of a government shutdown, I see it as a cleansing exercise. High officials always ensure the public that essential services like police and fire will continue to be funded. If a government service or non-worker, worker is deemed to be non-essential, then why keep them in the first place.
I reflected today on my daily routine and how a government shutdown of the non-essential would affect the day. In the morning I travel to work on a highway that few drive under the speed limit. Patrol cars are seen infrequently, but traffic moves in an orderly fashion despite their absence. Granted I use the government roads for my travels. Though the condition of the roads often look like the surface of the moon. Without government my morning commute will be a lot smoother due to all the non-worker, workers staying at home just as it is during holidays that ony bureaucrats take off.
I park my car in a private lot and walk to the office. Every transaction during the day can be completed without the intrusion of government.
On the way home I stop for gas. Like other purchases made the cost of the transaction would be cheaper if the taxes added to support government were eliminated. The activities for the evening again do not need government to enjoy.
As I have heard from others in the producing sector, go ahead and shut the government down. I will not miss it, but who will suffer.
The other day in a post, I pointed out that over 60% of federal spending and 50% of state outlays involve forcibly taking the money from one and giving to another. But what about the needy, what will they do without the government aiding them in a heist.
As Thomas Sowell points out in his latest article,
Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck – and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television and a microwave oven – and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight even more often than other Americans.
Besides the thieves, one other group that will miss the government and the politics of it all are the ones reporting on it.
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