If a business owner fails to generate profits, they are forced to lay people off or shutter their business. If a family can’t pay their utility bill, their water shuts off. If a student doesn’t finish their schoolwork, they don’t get to enjoy recess.
In the real world, the people who fail to fulfill their responsibilities suffer the consequences themselves.
However, Congress plays by different rules. When Congress fails to pass our spending bills on time to fund the government, it’s the public, and particularly taxpayers and our men and women in uniform, who bear the greatest burden of unnecessary and irresponsible government shutdowns.
Read more »by Muskogee Politico - November 18, 2023 at 11:23AM
Lankford: stop gov't shutdowns by making politicians suffer consequences of their dysfunction
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