Our “government” has been “shut down” for 3 weeks.  Has anyone (besides those folks whose paycheck depends on the funding of our government) noticed?  What “Government Services” have you needed and not gotten? Passports and such maybe? I haven’t (yet) been affected and no one that I know has been bothered in any way by the lack of “Non-Essential” Federal government…

We have “essential workers” who are forced to work without being paid….

and we have  “non-essential” worker who aren’t being paid right now but are also not working but who will be paid for not working once our Senators get over their spitegasm and sober up enough to work together and start to find a way to fund our government.

The question for the day is “why we are spending any money at all employing people who are not “essential”. “?? Not just during the “shutdown”, but at any time? If they aren’t “Essential” they why are we employing them at all? If after 3 weeks ho one noticed that they are not there, why are we giving them jobs?

Why do we have people wo are not essential to our lives, to our government, who can be laid off for weeks at a time with out anyone noticing? Why are we employing people doing jobs that we don’t need ….People and jobs that can be stopped at a whim without consequences for anyone….departments and workers whose entire job is meaningless and not “essential”? I

If they are “non-essential”, then why do we have them at all?