Libertarians United in One Cause
Libertarians may yell and scream at each other and engage in internecine
warfare and purport to expel each other from membership but on one point we
are united.
That is that we all want the Department of Homeland Security to be shut
down.
We do not want want one of these temporary shutdowns with everybody
reinstated at full pay days later with full back day. What we want is a
total and permanent shut down.
Those poor unfortunate people who will be left without work should be
advised to go out and get a paying job doing real and productive work,
working for real businesses, not for the government.
We have been here before. Now things are looking better than ever. Both the
Republicans and the Democrats are blaming each other for the impending shut
down on Friday at Midnight. We are really worried that they will make a
last minute deal that will sell the American people and especially the
taxpayers down the river. It is the taxpayers who have to pay for all this
and they are tired of it.
Do you know the game of "chicken"? Two players each get into the driver's
seat of a car and drive straight towards each other head-on at top speed.
The first to swerve to the right avoiding the impending head-on collision
is the "chicken". Sometimes the result is neither driver gives in. They
crash and both die.
Right now an amazing thing is happening. Both the Republicans and the
Democrats are insisting that only their version of the budget deal can be
allowed to pass. They are playing a game of Chicken.
We out in the general public can only watch. But we can all fervently hope
that neither side chickens out. We hope they both stand firm leading to a
crash. So, please write your Congressman or Senator and tell him or her to
stand firm and not compromise. We hope the Department of Homeland Security
can be brought to an inglorious end,
Sam Sloan