We Can Learn A Lot From History
By Mitch Berg
As we face a new shutdown – our first in six years – it might be useful to go back in time and look at this account of life, and death, during the’05 shutdown.
From the late, great “Kool Aid Report”, here it is.
July 1st, 2011 at 9:22 am
I wonder whatever happened to the Head of Alfredo Garcia. Hope he’s still writing somewhere…. 😉
July 1st, 2011 at 10:53 am
I remember that one well. It is a classic.
July 1st, 2011 at 11:30 am
…and I feel fine.
July 1st, 2011 at 2:09 pm
History? I thought Metallica helped us learn this stuff!
July 1st, 2011 at 4:27 pm
I see a movie in this! A big time movie! A blockbuster!
Northern Heat: The Return of Barbarossa
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Shutdown 11: Shopping at Daytons
Tagline:
In a World Ruled by Bad Cliches, it’s Every Man for Himself . . .
Theme song by Mike and the Mechanics
July 2nd, 2011 at 5:18 am
According to this story:
http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-07-01/vulnerable-feel-pinch-government-shutdown#comment-12493
the oppressed are losing over $43K in annual childcare subsidies (that is for one individual). That is about $10K more than the average annual income in Crow Wing County. This is what Dayton wants to defend when he insists on making us one of the highest tax states in the country.
July 3rd, 2011 at 6:59 am
Is it safe to leave the house. I have risked leaving the house a couple of times over the last two days. I must be pressing my luck.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
July 3rd, 2011 at 10:47 am
I went to church today and made it home alive. No crowds of huddled masses in sight. The bonfires on the ramparts have not yet been lit.
We’ll just have to wait and see.