Government Shutdown 2011: And We Thought Sacramento Was Bad

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Government Shutdown 2011: And We Thought Sacramento Was Bad
By Doug Curlee, Patch.com

Will a government shutdown affect the City of Santee? Mayor Randy Voepel had his usual pithy, but to-the-point answer to that: “There will be no direct impact on the City of Santee. The City of Santee has a real government, not a pretend government.”

OK, good enough, but what about the people who live in the City of Santee? What about the many military families who live here? How do active duty military families survive if their paychecks are suddenly cut in half, as the government says they will be? What do the families tell their landlords? Their mortgage bankers? Their grocery stores? Their gas stations?...

In my view, the lion’s share of the blame has to go to the Republicans in the House of Representatives.

NO ONE is against cutting government spending. NO ONE. But this is absolutely ridiculous. The Speaker of the House, who is supposed to control his membership, has lost control of it due to the extreme ideological positions of the Tea Party adherents sent to Congress this past November.

Of the people I’ve talked with since this whole thing started, though, I come up with one common thread running through all of this: A pox on BOTH their houses...
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Great look at a small town columnists view of how the federal shutdown could affect his city, the people in it, and how it came about.

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1. Yep a pox on both their houses. Excepting maybe Sen Barb Boxer.

She's been trying to see to it that health benefits and paychecks quit coming to the members of the Senate if the country's government shuts down.

Needless to say, her bill didn't get passed.