Our government shut down on Oct. 1 because the House and the Senate can’t agree on the financial spending plan for this coming fiscal year. Now, I don’t know if it’s just me, but when I hear the words “government” and “shutdown” next to each other, I turn into one of those pessimistic young people basically waiting for the fiery and ashen end of days and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way.
The idea of a government shutdown really puts a knot in my stomach and it’s easy to tell that people are frustrated. Seriously, this whole situation makes me want to put some people in their place! But what I really want to know is why on earth Congress has turned into two rival teams that can’t agree on anything?
Quick, tell the world, we’re not a government; we’re a bunch of high school cliques that hate each other! This is ridiculous. They had a deadline to meet and because of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) they were unable to agree on the spending plan. Last time I checked, they were supposed to be working together, and clearly they’re not.
They’re playing hot potato with our spending plan. This whole situation is just a reflection of a major and growing problem within our government, but it’s affecting hundreds of thousands of people’s lives right now.
I think that rather than a “little time out,” these bickering siblings need a firm whip on the backside! I understand why they are having issues coming to an agreement, things are a mess right now, but it’s their job to figure things out and right now they’re failing us. They’re failing America. We chose them to speak for us, even if we just saw them as the best of the worst, and we expect them to take care of business. I don’t see why a shutdown is even an option; isn’t a deadline something that you have to meet? They didn’t meet it and who is suffering because of it, the very people who put them in their seats. They need to set aside their personal agendas, ignore the lobbyists, and do their jobs.
They work for the American people and that makes each of us their boss and as their boss, I say that we give them a new deadline and it’s right now! If they continue on the way they are somebody is going to get fired and I don’t think it will be an amicable layoff.
