Since 1975, the government has shut down 17 times.  The longest shutdown lasted for three weeks during December of 1995 and January of 1996. That was also the most recent shutdown.  Since Democrats were in control of congress for most of the period between 1975 and 1992, guess which political party was most willing to shut down the government?  I wonder if anyone in the main stream media will notice that!  It may surprise you to learn that during each of the prior government shutdowns the world kept on turning and the sun rose and set as per usual.

The shutdown will not impact the military, border control agents, air traffic controllers, the FBI, the TSA or anyone else considered to be essential.  Social Security checks will still be delivered and Medicare payments will continue.  Of course the President, members of congress and their staff will be exempt, because they are considered essential too.  However it is true that it is expensive to shut down the government, because eventually everyone gets paid anyway.

Of course the Obama administration will attempt to implement the shutdown in a way that causes the most possible damage in the least amount of time.  That was the Obama administration strategy for administering the “sequester.”  But, if you think about it, that didn’t work.  The sequester is still in effect and somehow, someway, most of us are surviving.  When is the last time you heard someone talk about the terrible impact of the sequester?  My point exactly!

FDR said it best:  “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”  The main stream media will desperately try to gin up as much fear as possible.  President Obama, Harry Reid and the normal class of clowns will double down on the dire predictions and they will do everything possible to make them true.  But the simple reality is that we could do just fine without a large section of the federal government functioning at all.

Perhaps the biggest fear for democrats should be that once people realize the true impact of a government shutdown they might start to like it.  That is what happened in all those dumb states that elected Republican Governors who cut things that could not be cut.  Those states have something we would not recognize in California; a balanced budget, lower taxes and a thriving economy.  What a terrible price to pay for listening to those idiotic and irresponsible republicans.

So when you hear those folks on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and even FOX NEWS start to hyperventilate about the dreaded “government shutdown” keep this in mind.  I can pretty much guarantee that the sun will come up tomorrow and perhaps even the day after tomorrow.  Most of us will notice zero impact from the government shut down, other than being forced to listen to the bleating and blathering of the main stream media and politicians in both parties.   We have survived a government shutdown seventeen times since 1975.  Somehow, I think we can survive this one too.

TDM