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Which means they are expendable and could be sold off to reduce government overspending. Basically, what you're saying is that a government "shutdown" is anything but. In fact, it is a publicity stunt regularly held by democrats for political hit points.You don't understand the lawThings were shut down that required little to no expense to keep open. In several cases they spent more keeping people out than they would have just leaving them open. That is democrats maximizing pain and inconvenience. Oh, Reid and Obama made sure of that.How was the public inconvenienced?Sure, except that they tried to shut down things they had no authority over, all to maximize the inconvenience to the citizens. Actually, only about 17% of the government actually stopped. Most of it kept right on going. The House was ready to fund the entire government save for one program, but Reid and Obama blocked everything instead. They temporarily slowed down government (The other dirty little secret is that no one actually lost any wages. They retroactively got any pay they missed).Continuing resolution means government continues at existing funding levels. If Republicans want to add or cut something out they are provided the budget process to do so
Once government is shut down, only essential functions are allowed to operate....parks are not essential functions
nonessential parks were shut down while government healthcare, social security payments, education was maintained
If Republicans wanted to defund Obamacare ( essential function) they could have passed a budget that did so
The Republican temper tantrum wasted $26 billion
Think about what you're saying. By admitting that government functions are non-essential, you are saying that they are good candidates for slashing from a bloated budget drowning in a sea of red ink.
Nonessential functions get shut down. Republicans voted unanimously for it
Sorry, but healthcare, education, social security payments are essential
Parks are not
You want to sell the Lincoln Memorial and Statue of Liberty?