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Day 4 of no government
The effects of the government shutdown have gone from bad to worse. Last night was eerily silent. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Facing starvation, people are getting desperate. Some people dreamed of snow falling today so they could have something to melt and drink.
Children hung stockings out in hopes that a strange benefactor would magically appear, and fill them with food.
Others put some of their milk and pastry rations out on the table in the hope of attracting the food-bearing stranger. It was a gamble taken because of hunger.
We went to bed early, but soon out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. I tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
When what to my wondering eyes did appear, but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.
I shouted from the window, “Get. Off. My. Lawn.”
But in a world without a federal government, people lose respect for private property rights. I think some of the reindeer left calling cards.
This morning, I drove out. The streets were barren. All the shops and the restaurants were closed, even Tudor’s.
I was literally shaking.
Everyone senses the anarchy that lurches like a troll on Twitter. The shutting down of the government has imperiled the nation like nothing before. This is worse than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor Day or Game 7 of the 1997 World Series.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg News reported that shutting down government means the government is not collecting money.
The news service quoted Gordon Gray, director of fiscal policy at American Action Forum, who said, “Museums are closed, so the government doesn’t sell freeze-dried ice cream.”
No museums! No freeze-dried ice cream!
We are doomed.
