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Government Shutdown Humor
Townhall.com ^ | October 3, 2013 | Daniel J. Mitchell

Posted on 10/03/2013 5:53:05 AM PDT by Kaslin

Over the past few days, I’ve explained that fiscal conservatives and libertarians had little choice but to use the “continuing resolution” as a vehicle to go after Obamacare.

I also pointed out that the shutdown fight in the mid-1990s resulted in a very important victory for advocates of smaller government.

And I wrote that it would have been better if the shutdown started even earlier to stop bureaucrats from their usual end-of-fiscal-year spending orgy.

So what should I write about today, as we enter another day of unplanned vacation for nonessential bureaucrats? Well, I heard President Obama warn yesterday that we need to take steps to protect the economy. Did this mean he was finally being reasonable and that he would agree to curtail the job-killing fiscal boondoggle otherwise known as Obamacare?

Don’t be silly.

Instead, he wants us to believe that a partial government shutdown somehow is bad for the economy. Just as he tried to convince us that themodest spending restraint of sequestrationsomehow was going to cripple the federal government (I wish!).

Obama’s over-the-top rhetoric is so laughable that the only appropriate response is mockery. So let’s enjoy some jokes and other humor about the government shutdown.

We’ll start with a very funny bit of satire about civilization collapsing without an omnipresent federal government. Here’s a teaser, but you should read the entire article.

Shutdown Satire

Let’s remember, after all, that the United States was a Hobbesian jungle of vicious anarchy back in the 1800s when the federal government consumed only 3 percent of economic output!

Here’s some political satire I received in my inbox yesterday. It warns about the danger of unregulated and unlicensed children’s lemonade stands. Why? Because bureaucrats (like ones in California, Georgia, and Oregon) won’t be prowling the streets to shut them down.

Shutdown Lemonade

This bit of humor actually isn’t accurate since the shutdown sidelines federal bureaucrats and the lemonade stands were shut down by local bureaucrats.

That being said, we can safely assume that there are paper pushers in Washington who spend their time doing things that are equally foolish and pointless, so I’m sharing it with you under the media’s “fake but accurate” standard.

The late-night talk shows also are having some fun with the shutdown. Let’s start with some good one-liners from Jay Leno.

And here’s one from David Letterman.

Let’s close with two additional bits of humor. This tweet from Jonah Goldberg made me laugh out loud. Julia, you may remember, was the Obama campaign’s make-believe woman who mooched off taxpayers from birth to death.

But now she’s trying to survive in the post-shutdown apocalypse.

Shutdown Julia

Speaking of Julia, this Michael Ramirez cartoon hits the nail on the head.

Our last bit of mockery says we should celebrate the shutdown because government causes so much damage when it’s open.

Shutdown Detroit

The underlying message of this image obviously is true, but I’m guessing this is a picture of a house in Detroit, so it might be more accurate to pin the blame on the city government rather than the federal government.

Then again, federal subsidies doubtlessly enabled and facilitated Detroit’s destructive policies, so maybe it’s okay to share this bit of humor without having to rely on the “fake but accurate” rule.

That’s actually the hard part of my job. It’s sometimes difficult to figure out which form of intervention, at which level of government, should be blamed when something bad happens.

But this isn’t supposed to be a serious post, so I’ll leave that topic for another day.

If today’s post didn’t give you enough government shutdown humor, you can click here, here, and here for additional examples.


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1 posted on 10/03/2013 5:53:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/189765_4367591346164_1073134098_n.jpg

I don’t know how to post it as a pic


2 posted on 10/03/2013 6:09:49 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: Kaslin
to stop bureaucrats from their usual end-of-fiscal-year spending orgy.

An important, but badly undervalued point. At the end of each fiscal year they get on a mad dash to spend every available penny so that they won't suffer a cut in the next budget. Keeping a shutdown thru the end of the fiscal year will preempt this nonsense.


3 posted on 10/03/2013 6:10:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Bulwinkle

> https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/189765_4367591346164_1073134098_n.jpg

I don’t know how to post it as a pic

Much truth in that .... lol


4 posted on 10/03/2013 6:18:25 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Bulwinkle
< img src="your link goes here" >

it is as simple as that

5 posted on 10/03/2013 6:18:54 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Occupy the DC Mall - take back the monuments)
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To: Kaslin
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6 posted on 10/03/2013 6:31:19 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Bulwinkle

7 posted on 10/03/2013 6:33:12 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Kaslin
Looks like Waldo may have to remove "Ability to Community Organize" from his resume...
8 posted on 10/03/2013 6:59:32 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Enterprise

Thats funny.

Its now being reported that far from having no end game strategy, Republicans are employing the Vladamir Putin strategy, used effectively by pREsidunce obomber in Syria.


9 posted on 10/03/2013 7:08:49 AM PDT by quimby
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To: Kaslin
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10 posted on 10/03/2013 7:41:29 AM PDT by RetSignman (Standing my ground against group think.)
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To: quimby

The longer the Republicans hold their ground, the more unhinged and absolutely looney the Democrats will become. If the Government isn’t running, the Democrats have no power. And you know what? Maybe it’s just me, but as long as this goes on, I feel a sense of liberty. What a great feeling!


11 posted on 10/03/2013 7:41:41 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Kaslin
RUMOR has it that OTV has been exempted from the shutdown


12 posted on 10/03/2013 7:42:30 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
*wishful thinking*


13 posted on 10/03/2013 8:27:47 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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