Is anyone else getting a bit tired of the “government shutdown” hype? Perhaps it’s time for a little perspective. So, let me get this straight, non-essential offices of the government will shut down Friday at midnight unless Congress gets some sort of an agreement to continue funding the feds? (I’ll pass the opportunity here to ask why we ever have any government non-essential services).
Let’s assume that most government workers don’t work on Saturday or Sunday anyway so there won’t be much missing of these non-essential services over the weekend. Then comes Monday when these employees providing all these (non-essential) services would suit up and show up to do their duty (non-essentially). But wait, they don’t always work Monday through Friday do they?
Looking at the federal calendar I notice these (non-essential) employees providing these (non-essential) services have eleven federal holidays each and every year. Can we assume that the government is shut down on those days?
So now I’m thinking “so what if we miss a few more days of these non-essential services?” since we don’t have them any Saturday or Sunday or 11 other days out of the year.
Maybe I’m missing something here. If the government is already shut down over 110 days a year what’s so threatening about another shutdown if it might save a few dollars?
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