Government Shutdown is about People, stupid

I'd like to write about my kids. The boys had a big weekend at the Mini Makers Faire in Loveland. I'd also like to write about my wife. Despite being 8 months prego she chose to rough it in the mountains so I could live out my chainsaw fantasies. But my brain is frozen in frustration. It's spinning hot about how irresponsible our elected officials (and corresponding constituents) have become.

It seems that the government was shutdown long before it closed its doors. It's riddled with right wing sociopaths who claim it's their constitutional duty to spend three years on the taxpayer's dime deconstructing what a country wants and desperately needs. And now we see hundreds of millions of dollars siphoned into what has been in the works for months. The shutdown isn't a last-minute attempt to save the country from the Bogeyman; it's been the plan, the notion behind the smirks, to hijack a democracy and subvert the will of the people.

Some of my people.

The media seems to get confused (and/or intimidated) and besiege the spectacle over the person. Even if there is a person, they'd better be a spectacle. But, in the end, this government shutdown is about people, stupid. 

I'm people. You're people, too. And it's here, in an attempt to be a savvy rhetorician, I'll invoke my dad, who was cutting down dangerous beetle kill trees before the shutdown pushed him off the national forest. He just laid off four people.

More people: Sarah's work is cutting back.

Turns out I am writing about my wife and kids.