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Name one single thing the record-setting 40-day shutdown of the U.S. government the Democrats orchestrated that benefited the American public. Yeah, me either.
I haven’t read one article or heard an analyst explain how it was the least bit beneficial.
It was supposed to reinforce the Democrats’ claim that there is an “affordability crisis.” If so it’s one they caused. For example, when Biden entered the White House the median age of a first time home buyer was 33. In his four years there it soared to 40, meaning that for most families that meant not buying a home until the kids are grown.
The Democrat government shutdown made air travel a mess, clogging airports, delaying, and cancelling flights; cutting off paychecks to air traffic controllers and the military, creating layoffs and firings, stopping food stamp (SNAP) programs, and more.
That was just for starters. How did missing job interviews, business meetings, funerals, family celebrations, weddings, bar mitzvas, hospital appointments, etc. make anything affordable?
It only created heartbreak, disappointment, misery, anger, financial pain, and resentment.
The only people I saw cheering it on were the Democrat Senators and Congressional representatives who voted to maintain the shutdown, defying the wishes of the general public. They assumed the American public is as dim as they think they are.
Not a single member of Congress or their staff missed a paycheck. Why not? They shut down the government and still benefited while their constituents suffered. What’s wrong with that picture?
Eight of the Democrat senators finally realized the damage that was being done and voted with Republicans to reopen. It took 14 votes.
Despite the embarrassing televised man-on-the-street interviews and the voting results in New York City and Seattle, the general public doesn’t wallow in a sea of ignorance, at least not all of them, mostly Democrats.
Even CNN’s leftwing commentator Fareed Zakaria excoriated the Democrats for the shutdown, saying: “It’s hard to see how the government shutdown and reopening is anything other than a defeat for the Democrats,” Zakaria said. Here’s his entire unedited comment. I haven’t seen the shutdown stated better anywhere.
“If America has an affordability crisis, it tends to be in places Democrats govern, like New York, Illinois, and California, all featuring high taxes, soaring housing costs, and stagnant outcomes. It is a paradox that defines much of blue-state America: government that promises more, costs more, but delivers less.
Democrats’ instinctive response to every problem remains the same: spend more. For decades, states and cities have traded short-term political harmony for long-term fiscal ruin. In too many Democratic strongholds, regulation has metastasized into paralysis. Housing is unaffordable because local zoning codes and environmental reviews, rent control and union carve-outs make construction painfully slow and expensive.
California has spent $24 billion on homelessness over five years, yet the problem has only worsened. More is spent per mile on subway construction in New York than any other city on earth. Each new initiative layers another bureaucracy atop the last.
Democrats must rediscover the lost art of simple competence—and they can prove it to the entire nation by governing well in places like big cities where they are in charge.
Democrats assume voters are stupid. They expected them to view the shutdown as a Republican inspired mess and to be held responsible for the economic misery the minority party created. That’s how much contempt Democrats have for American citizens.
Hopefully, during the midterms, their callous intentions will backfire as Americans can’t afford any more Democrat “affordability.”
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