Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019 | 2 a.m.
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Conservative commentator John Stossel has made the argument that the government shutdown is not a crisis. He says that most government workers are not essential.
He says it is no big deal that 800,000 federal workers are not getting paid. He says that they will be paid eventually. Can the worker going without paychecks take Stossel’s words to the landlord looking for rent or the bank looking for the car payment or any of the other creditors and get relief? How about those 400,000 workers not getting paid but expected to show up for work anyway? In any other situation, that would be called one thing: slavery.
Stossel tells us that the private sector can do the work better anyway. But who is going to pay the private sector? Him?
Stossel has told the farmers of America, large and small, that their subsidy payments were nothing but scams. How do you think the soybean farmers are going to take that, since their current subsidy was the one promised by President Donald Trump after he managed to destroy their market?
How galling.
