Don’t let them get away with it. Nail Obama with this. It was his choice what to shut down. He didn’t have to make life miserable for Americans.
If he’d just cut waste you wouldn’t even have noticed, but then the lie of big government needing every penny would be well known.
This is why most presidents, including the old democrats who, at least, cared for the Constitution, were against the unionization of government employees. Who ever gives them the freebies now gets their loyalties.
This crap happened during the last debt ceiling debate. Government union workers at the DMV (and probably most other places) simply hid out in back rooms, and those at the counter did paperwork - they did cross word puzzles. People had to wait forever to be waited on, because the democrats wanted more money to buy votes. The government union slowed way down to assist them in getting the cash.