The gov shut down for various political reasons. This thread is not about those reasons. Here I want to discuss another aspect/effect of the shut down.
Currently "non-essential" gov workers are not working. My question is.
Given our current financial situation, specifically the fact that the gov spends more than it takes in, should each non-essential worker/department be forced to justify it's existence before being brought back?
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Basically, the gov shuts down and the sky doesn't fall. The stock market doesn't crash. The world doesn't end. What does occur is that we are generally one step further towards balancing our budget (as far as actual expenditures) and shrinking the size of gov. Maybe we should re-think about how the gov is applied to our lives, after all if we can live without them.. why do we need them?
DISCUSS!!
*Counter point - The shut down is harming all those that are not working because of it. This is bad and should be avoided.
-Answer- This is invalid because if we accept that as a bases for maintaining a gov agency, then we would never be allowed to shut down any gov job/agency no matter how useless or counter productive they become. That point is inherently flawed as a "principle" and should not be used.
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