Or it needs to be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
A friend of mine wrote last night on Facebook that the FAA had started to shut down at midnight Saturday/Sunday due to a lack of budget, and that the air traffic control center had a reduced staff as a result.
And I noted in response that the government rarely sends non-essential personnel home first. Like, for instance, EPA beancounters and other such desk pilots. It's always people and services you actually need that get cut first. E.g., the cretin in the White House insisting that Social Security checks will stop being printed on August 2, rather than, say, welfare deadbeat checks and paychecks for congresscritters and their parasitical staffers. Cutting defense spending instead of cutting studies to discover whether or not there are homosexual cockroaches (and if so, why that proves the case for gay marriage).
It's just like the city deciding to cut police and fire before they cut parks and street cleaning and RIF'fing dead wood at the City-County Building.
You cut essential services to make the taxpayers think that more taxes are needed.
Maybe it's time we started cutting non-essential bureaucrats and politicians...as in, off at the knees.
