What does bother me is there will never be any recall or mention when previous government shut downs comparison impacts get reviewed over the impact they had.
Of this;
Not dare refer to the most costly and disgraceful results from a “shutdown” that happened during Nixon’s presidency. Caused by the democrats refusal to stand by the Vietnamese effort to remain independent by refusing them air support and supplemental funding of arm supplies which would have prevented that loss and that humiliating disgraceful evacuation of our Saigon embassy.
Which quickly then resulted in a multitude of Vietnamese being slaughtered and the sacrifices of thousands of our armed forces paying with their 58,000 lives assisting them in their fight for freedom dishonored..
The whole Vietnam conflict was quite the mess.
It’s a long complicated topic, but basically, the politicians should of stayed out. The military should of handled it.
On a side note, the M-14 should of stayed as the main battle rifle too, that would of made the enemy much more fearful.