Subject: [WSFA] Re: A point of information about the government shutdown
From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 08:34:37 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Oct 4, 2013, at 1:35 AM, Walter Miles <waltmiles at comcast.net> wrote:

> Democrats have been trying to change our healthcare financing system
> for forty years.  You could see it as the last bit of the New Deal,
> I suppose.  As important as it has been to them, they've not tried to
> shut down the government over it.  Maybe they knew it wouldn't work.
> They resisted the policies of Republican Presidents, and fiddled with
> their budgets, but there was an unspoken agreement that the government
> would operate and provide its ordinary services while they argued.  =
The
> Republicans abided by this too, except on one occasion.  I suppose =
that
> is no longer viewed as necessary.
>

According to Wikipedia, there have been 18 shutdowns since 1976.  Both =
parties have been implicated in them.

See =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown_in_the_United_States#Fede=ral_government.