[Dilbert56]

The last shutdown had the Alaska crab fishing boats stuck at the docks, waiting for the paper pushers to issue the proper permits. This shutdown should, therefore, include a provision that anything the federal government regulates, that isn't classified as essential, is hereby unregulated while the government is shut down.

[Apogee]

Seem rather like the Stamp Act, when people couldn’t get married or anything else because they couldn’t get an official stamp.

Worked out real well for them that time, of course, but we are more timid these days, what with the NDAA and all. Your solution is the rational and arguably most precedented one.

“the mayor would have led the gang, but Boston weren’t a city”
(great song, btw)

[editor-surveyor]

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Deregulated is the word.

Let it ring!
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