Let me see if I have this right. Our federal government has been shut down for the past 10 days. But members of Congress and the Senate are being paid, the courts are functioning and the White House hasn’t forced the President to look elsewhere for lodging. Some departments have essential personnel working but they could be paid now or in the future depending on the budget of the particular department or agency. While it may be tough for federal employees right now who have been furloughed, both Democrats and Republicans of both houses and Mr. Obama have said they will be paid for not working when this is all cleared up.

The shutdown is occurring, Republicans say, so that dreaded “Obama Care” will be repealed but the funding is in place to enact it. The President claims he won’t sit down and negotiate with a gun to his head equating the Speaker of the House (or as he is known at the White House as Big Bad John) to a terrorist.

We need to not raise the debt ceiling because….well it doesn’t really matter say the Republicans or the world will come apart states the Democrats. Some Republicans claim we can always pay interest on the debt but are a little fuzzy on how we pay for other things such as those federal employees they promised the back pay to for not working. The Democrats claim the debt borrowing limit must be raised to pay for everything already appropriated because either party hasn’t the ability to live within a budget. OH RIGHT! There hasn’t been an enacted U.S. budget since before Obama was president.

So the way I see this, the average person employed in the private sector continues to send taxes to D.C. to pay for a President and a Congress that closes things refusing to do their jobs and for those in “public service” who are not currently working but will eventually be paid for not working. (By the way, the average government employee now makes more than the average private one, but we still call it public service.) We, the people, in turn can’t visit parks and monuments. We can’t contact federal agencies on the phone or visit closed offices. Even the loved ones of those killed in battle can’t get the benefits needed for a burial.

I don’t really care what the crazies on either side want.  The vast majority of the American people want a functioning government. If you can’t come together and compromise, the only way we can move forward is to vote every incumbent out of office. It doesn’t matter if we agree with their political philosophies or not. The nation cannot continue on this path. I am sick of Washington politicians acting as if they are in kindergarten. Obama and all the rest of both parties need to grow up and act like adults. Anyone who has ever operated in the real world, as opposed to the political one, knows you don’t get everything you want. Those fools need to recognize that truth. They are sent to Washington to govern not raise money for their campaigns or get ready for the next election.