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Robert Reich: What's Really at Stake With the GOP's Awful Budget Plan and the Coming Government Shutdown
By Robert Reich, RobertReich.org
Posted on April 6, 2011, Printed on April 7, 2011
http://robertreich.org/
I was there in 1995 when the government closed because of a budget stalemate. I had to tell most of the Labor Department’s 15,600 employees to go home and not return the next day. I also had to tell them I didn’t know when they’d next get a paycheck.
There were two shutdowns, actually, rolling across the government in close succession, like thunder storms.
It’s not the way to do the public’s business.