Government
Shut-Down 2025
Q: When is it logical for a government
to shut-down? A: When the government is being replaced. Revolution, peaceful or not, is the only
logical time to shut-down a government.
Even then … it would be wise to keep the experienced public servants in
place. Can anyone of sound mind dispute
this? I think not.
If a government sends home, without
pay, its workforce for an unspecified period of time and without a logical
reason it is alienating. The good-will
of that workforce will not be easily earned back. The good will of the population should be the
same. Those legislators who vote for a
shut-down have no stoppage in their wages.
But the working public servants do and there is no payback for lost
wages.
The political parties like to threaten
each other with government shut-downs.
It isn’t an idle threat. There
have been over twenty government shut-downs in the last fifty years. They have been initiated by both political
parties. To put an end to this ridiculous
practice we need a constitutional amendment to make a shut-down illegal. Votes need not to be taken on the entire
budget, but on the individual changes being proposed. It would take a sixty per cent vote to change
any line item. If no budget is passed by
the assigned date, the previous year’s budget remains in effect. Simple but effective.
Cheers, Old
Buz 10/05/2025
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Remember:
“ONE cannot fool all of the
people all of the time … and that is why we have TWO political parties.” - Anon
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