So I sympathise with the workers.

But it must be done.

why can't they be paid, though?

the sucky part was that the democrats did block a vote for giving the workers a pay check as the lockdown had gone for such a long time

you don't stop tax collecting for shutdown period, do you?

Yeah, well I used to work for the (well, not american) government and comparing their work to the free market is like comparing a snail to a ferrari - 90% of people who work for the government spend most of their day just drinking coffee. It sucks for the workers, but then again, they chose to work for the government.

nope as that is seen as an essential operation

Congress must approve the bill

I mean sure it sucks for them not getting paid

but that's little different from the free market sometimes you're not getting paid there either

you've got some efficiency issues, obviously, but then again most public sectors do around the world

Usually not because a group of elected officials decide to forget how to be adults

the entire shutdown "mechanic" seems childish in itself

It isnt a mechanic

It is a byproduct

we can't get what we want? Tough shit, nobody does! REEE

that's why I put it in quotation marks

To be fair, if you cannot agree on the budget, this is what will always happen.

why are you still awake mal?

isn't it like 1am for you?

if that happened here, an election would be called

it that this time both sides refuses to budge

2:23

yeah welll in the US, we don't have snap elections

We follow our elections, unlike you. We just do not have them at will.

and we also don't suspend our constitutions <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

give it time <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

...Usually....

*glares at democrats*

We will destroy ourselves, we know this and always expected it.

LIncoln was a Republican and he suspended the constitution a couple of times. Still FDR was worse.

he didn't suspend the constitution, just habeas corpus

Did you know that the American public supported the Axis more than Britain and France before entering WWI?

Habeus is in the constitution.

@Jym and don't forget the fascists favorite president, Wilson

sounds pretty corrupt to me <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

that fucker pissed all over the constitution before it was cool

Our founding fathers got it done with the least amount of laws written in it. #freedom

Welllllllllllll

They kinda fucked it the first attempt

Wilson was bad but FDR was worse. Let's name mid 20th century dictators who were democratically elected, put minorities in camps, and thought that capitalism was only Ok when it produced whatever they told it to. No not that Austrian wetback, the other one.....