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Monday, January 21, 2019

The Current Shutdown of Our Government


Whatever political party yours may be; whatever opinions you might have about the current shutdown of our government and any and all relative matters pertaining to the subject, including yours and my views concerning these matters notwithstanding, this shutdown is an abomination to our country and our people for which there is no excuse—absolutely none!

Defined in a slightly different manner, it is a comprehensive dereliction of duty by our government as a whole beginning with the failure of our Senate (there is a bill in the Senate currently approved by the House of Representatives, currently on hold by the Senate Majority Leader) to bring to the floor for a vote and subsequently forwarded to the president for his approval or rejection under the rules of The Constitution of The United States of America (I’m confident I don’t need to remind you. If rejected by the president, the bill will be returned to the Senate for a final vote—override or defeat). And why is this bill on hold? The answer is plain and simple, politics. For that reason and that reason only, our people are suffering, a suffering that is growing more and more by the hour (a real crises), while our democracy and our nation are becoming the laughing stock of the world. We must resolve this crises and resolve it now!

When our government is operational once again, we must immediately generate and pass legislation preventing this from ever happening again.

There is nothing written in our constitution which permits our legislative and executive bodies to hold government employees hostage as pawns in negotiations with one another. I am certain we have experts in accounting and the law who can make this happen. If the crooks in our financial world, can run a business in “off balance sheet accounting”, surely our government can find a way to allow our government to “stay afloat” during our budgetary negotiations.


Enough is enough! Let’s “gitter done”!

Ronald Miller



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