What if all the non essential government shut down and nobody noticed?
Unlike the United States which has no budget because Democrat Progressives are not allowed to have the ability to continue unlimited borrowed spending, I have a budget and a prudent reserves, and reduce my spending as the reserves diminish.
Of course my president, the Great Uniter, and his "most transparent government" has exercised the power to confiscate with impunity, so my determination to plan ahead is vulnerable to arbitrary and capricious politicians.
If the non-essential Park Rangers had been furloughed, we would not have noticed. However they are paying EXTRA to shut down open monuments and Parks that require no manning, except to barricade them. I am indeed humiliated as a citizen that our government has come to this, to deny access — AT EXTRA COST — of our National Treasures, to citizens and foreign guests. As I said shame, SHAME, on the executive who ordered this travesty, and the Senators who make it possible.