I Survived the Government Shutdowns
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RUSH: Palabo! Great to have you, Palabo. Welcome to the program.
ALLER: Hey. I’m really happy to be here. Mega unemployment dotes from California, the only place where they still have unemployment because they have overregulation. Hey, listen, I’m calling you as a survivor. I survived the great government shutdown of 1994-95. I survived the 1990 shutdown, the ’95 shutdown, the 2013 shutdown, the 2018 shutdown. I survived them all. The government shutdown, there’s only a slowdown, a government slowdown of 16% of the government. And it’s very survivable.
RUSH: You know, this —
CALLER: — stop calling it a shutdown and start calling it a slowdown —
RUSH: I like the way you’re thinking, you know, because 70% of the government has been funded all the way through all of next year. Seventy percent’s already paid for. But I love this. “I survived the government shutdown.” That’s a great perspective on this because the actual portrayal of a government shutdown is panic and chaos! And some people might not make it. Some people are going to incur such difficulty, such chaos and may suffer real harm. That’s the image that goes behind these government shutdowns. You can’t get by without your government up and running.
The fact that these threatened shutdowns seem to have that kind of political benefit really frosts me. The idea that people can’t get by when the government’s not open, I mean, what are government working hours anyway? The fact that the government gets shut down so many times during the course of a year, they shut themselves down if there’s a couple inches of snow, for crying out loud, and nobody panics then.
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