Now this commentator has it right.

Shut down government until it can figure out how to live inside its
means. Like heroin, the best way to quit is cold turkey. You just stop
taking on more debt.

Lets face it, not one person in the USA will be harmed except for the
idiots who support and helped create and expand the problem in the fist
place.

Time to tell debt mongers and welshers for f--- o--.

Debt whores just steal from other people for greed today. Time to
remove governments ability to assume debt and stop enslaving us who
don't believe in it.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...line-baum.html

How I Learned to Love a U.S. Government Shutdown: Caroline Baum
April 06, 2011, 7:24 PM EDT
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By Caroline Baum

April 7 (Bloomberg) -- What if the U.S. government shut down and no one
noticed?

Even worse (or better, depending on one’s point of view), what if all
federal workers went on furlough and the public realized there were
benefits, not just costs, to smaller government?

The sixth stop-gap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution,
expires tomorrow. In the event Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on
a budget for fiscal year 2011, which is more than half over, the federal
government, or parts of it, will shut down.

Essential services will be maintained, including the distribution of
Social Security checks. Employees involved in the military, national
security and law enforcement will stay on the job. Non-essential workers
will be furloughed.

Neither party seems eager to halt government operations because a) they
don’t want to shoulder the blame, as Republicans did in 1995; or b) they
don’t want to be subject to repercussions (read: voter backlash) in 2012.

President Barack Obama says a shutdown would devastate the economy at a
time when job growth is struggling to reach a cruising altitude. What’s
more, it would further reduce confidence in government.

Guess what? It can’t go much lower. The approval rating for Congress
dropped to 18 percent last month, near the lowest in the Gallup poll’s
37-year history of tracking the trend.

So stop all the negativity and look at the bright side. A government
shutdown would give federal employees a well-deserved respite from those
grueling 9-to-5 workdays. Even essential workers deserve a break.

My advice is to stop worrying and learn to love a U.S. government
shutdown. Just imagine all the benefits…

Count the Ways

President Obama would be able to work on his golf game without the risk
of appearing disengaged at a time when the country is involved in an
It’s-Not-a-War in Libya.

The U.S. State Department would have time to formulate a coherent
foreign policy rather than deal with each Middle East uprising on an ad
hoc basis. It can start by defining the criteria it uses to
differentiate between good dictators (Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak,
Muammar Qaddafi) and bad dictators (Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak,
Muammar Qaddafi).

CIA operatives would have time to hunker down with Rosetta Stone
software and become fluent in Arabic so that next time they can provide
valuable intel before a region ignites.

A government closure would give the investigators at the Securities and
Exchange Commission an opportunity to read and respond to information
provided by whistleblowers like Harry Markopolos.

Light Reading

The residential real estate market might get some breathing room to heal
itself without an array of federal programs that create artificial
demand for housing, prop up prices and delay the day of reckoning for
underwater homeowners.

A government shutdown would reduce commuter traffic on the Beltway. Air
traffic controllers could catch up on their sleep. Tourists would face
shorter lines at Washington’s monuments, although they’d have to sneak in.

No lawmakers means no new laws, regulations, targeted tax breaks,
exemptions or loopholes. Members of Congress would have much-needed time
to read the health-care bill they passed last year, holding then-House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi to her word when she said: “We have to pass the
bill so you can find out what is in it.”

Bigger Means Smaller

A government shutdown would give family-values Republicans more time to
spend with spouses and children (preferably their own). Democrats
favoring income redistribution (yours, not theirs) could use the time to
consult with their accountants so they can take advantage of the
loopholes they write into the tax code. Members of both parties would
have more time for fundraising.

Too-big-to-fail banks would get a taste of what it’s like to swim
without a life preserver should a crisis strike while the government is
shuttered.

Media companies should see improved profits as paid advertisements
replace the endless obligatory coverage of the president and Congress
bloviating.

Finally, a shutdown would produce such an outcry and warnings of dire
consequences from the media, activists and politicians, it might just
get open-minded folks to reflect on how the government got so big and
why it’s so intertwined in our lives.

If that’s the first step to a smaller government, then by all means,
shut it down.

(Caroline Baum, author of “Just What I Said,” is a Bloomberg News
columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.)

--Editors: Steve Dickson, Charles W. Stevens