151: Government Shutdown Is Good

For the reactionary and thoughtless knee-jerker who might read this, please be advised the following statement is general, and not specific to each individual.  A federal government shutdown is a very good thing, in the same way that the sequester was (and is) good.  Politicians of all stripes whined that the sky would fall if the sequester took effect.  What happened?  The sequester took effect and virtually no one has noticed.  The same would be true of a short-term federal government shutdown.  Lots of bureaucrats would have a few days of paid vacation and the citizens would be spared from having them breath down our necks.  How did the idea that "government growth is good, but government reduction is bad" become an accepted truth?