The Government is Shut Down?

10/18/25

If you are adversely affected by the current state of the federal government, you are too dependent on something that can not be controlled. A dwindling majority of Americans are unaffected by the shutdown. These are the people who pay for those sorely requiring federal largesse. Unfortunately, the number “pulling the wagon” is closer to those in the wagon. As has been the case since the first “benefit”, once ensconced, it only gets bigger and bigger.

Indeed, this version of the shutdown is over a “temporary” subsidy that is laid on to an already highly supported health care boondoggle. The absurdly named “Affordable Care Act”, aka Obamacare (ACA) was never affordable. It always required the federal government to pay handsomely for insurers to administer the program. This mighty first step to single payer healthcare is now the thorn in the current administration’s effort to re-open the government.

Like every other program of the governments across the country, once started they never end. The current subsidy for ACA was intended to help people who were locked out of their jobs by the federal government shutdown of the economy during the covid pandemic. Got that? They kept you from working so they had to compensate you in any number of ways. SNAP grew exponentially, unemployment payments soared, the PPI program doled out billions to firms, much of it incorrectly, and even though you are back to work, well, why not just keep paying!

The Founders said in the Constitution the federal government is to provide national security and promote domestic and foreign commerce. We now have over 3,000,000 federal employees as of 9/2024 about only half of which are devoted to the military or security. (https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-federal-government/)

As more people get hooked on the federal “drug” of reliance for basic necessities, it is clear that any attempt to reduce those now entitlements is met with fierce resistance. Add Trump deranged syndrome and you have the makings of a political tempest being taken advantage of by the very persons who wrought the kerfuffle.

Will it take an Atlas Shrugged complete meltdown for a realignment? Is it possible to break through to those seeking a socialist state with the errors of their ways? Both seem out of reality right now but certainly; we’re on a very tenuous path that will end badly without course correction.