I'm Warming Up to the Partial Government Shutdown

   So, how terrible is this government shutdown? I consider with the rest of you. I started against it. But now, I am warming to it.
   Though I warm to it, it is true, a government shutdown should not be allowed without much thought, for we do fear the dangers. We wonder about consumer confidence, and about the confidence of the credit rating agencies, and about whether we will entice another recession. We wonder that so many people should suddenly be unemployed, with no way to feed their families, and we wonder about those who will miss government assistance. We worry about national security.
  But, public reaction is as though these people in Congress are voting for a shutdown. They are not, not on either side of the aisle. Both sides are voting to keep the government open. They just can't agree on whether to keep Obamacare open, too. Consider the position of that part of Congress that supports shutting down Obamacare. They are willing to fund the government. Indeed, they are voting to fund the government, and they are voting to keep the government open -- all except Obamacare. They are saying, Yes, let's fund it, all except for this one part.
   I say, these are the people who are empowered to say what shall be paid for. Yes, they already passed a law creating Obamacare, but it remains their right, the same, to come along after that and decide what will and will not be funded. This, too, becomes law, and this, too, they have the right to decide.
  In the past, they may have taken the choice between funding it all or funding nothing, and always they have chosen to fund it all. But, it remains their right to pick what they will fund.
  With this said, I do believe they should choose to pay the bill for any service that has already occurred, simply because you pay for what you walk out of a store with. But, if the money hasn't been spent yet for portions of the Affordable Care Act, they have the right to say the money will not be spent.
   If a shopper in a store takes an item and puts it in their shopping cart, they still have the right to change their mind before they get to the checkout stand, as long as they have not damaged the item in any way. They still have the right to go back and place the item back on the shelf.
   So, put Obamacare back on the shelf. Buy everything else in the basket, but put Obamacare back on the shelf.