wishful thinking

[cellio]

My state's government has partially shut down over a budget spat. "Non-essential" employees have been given the temporary boot, but the legislators and governor at the center of the problem are still getting paid. Instead, they should keep the workers and stop paying the politicians until it's fixed. Fast Eddie and the more-numerous-than-necessary-anyway legislators should suffer the consequences of their brinksmanship, but, sadly, it never works out that way.

Comments

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

This is the classic "Washington Monument Scam" (i.e. shut down government functions selected for their high profile and high inconvenience inflicted by the shutdown) in order to pressure the taxpayers to cough up more in order to pay for both the meat and the fat.