Perhaps We Deserve More of a Shutdown

   If failure to fund the government means an automatic shutdown, perhaps we should be concerned we are not getting our money's worth. Shut down more.
   I speak as someone who has really warmed up to the government shutdown, you see.
   If the shutdown is mandated, why was so much not shut down? Are we being shortchanged? If we have more than 2 million government workers, and only 800,000 were furloughed, that's not as much of a shutdown as perhaps we could have. We deserve better than this. Are we entitled to more of a shutdown? If the idea was to shutdown everything except the essential services and we didn't even shut down half of everything, maybe that's just not good enough. All our lives, we cry about how the government has too many programs and spends too much money, and now that we get you (government) to shut down, it isn't even a good shutdown.
   If this sounds uncaring for the 800,000 who lost their jobs, realize they are eligible for unemployment benefits. I would rather see us offer them new jobs, permanent or temporary. A prerequisite for receiving the benefits is not turning down an equal job. Why not we, as fellow citizens, then, offer them jobs? Nor am I uncaring about those receiving such things as WIC payments. Charity can fill that void. I heard of a group called the Peoples WIC here in Utah that was ready to step in and help those on WIC. The federal government issued emergency funding, though, so the Peoples WIC might be on hold.