government shutdown

Government Shutdown? Maybe for the Best 0
- February 20, 2018
[D]uring the 2013 shutdown, the Department of the Interior announced it was closing Rocky Mountain National Park . . . No problem: Colorado state government kicked in the money . . . and it stayed open. A few Coloradans began to ask, “Who needs the feds to run the park after all?”
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Another government shutdown would be great for America 0
- February 6, 2018
Once again, we are threatened with a federal government “shutdown.” Well, this citizen out in the hinterland says, “Bring it on!” Most of the functions that would be interrupted aren’t really constitutional anyway, and we could do well without them. In fact, we should defund some of them permanently to help close the federal deficit.
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Shut 'Er Down!0
- September 29, 2013
Two stories in today’s Denver Post show how cynically the mainstream media are playing the story about what they misleadingly call a “government shutdown.” Of course, it’s really not a shutdown, just a slowdown—more on that below. And in our constitutional system the states, not the feds, are the primary line of government. The states
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