It’s almost like the news media is trying to get us to hide under our beds in fear.

From CNN to USA Today to Fox and beyond, all we hear is, “There’s a shutdown! There’s a shutdown!”

Of course there’s a bloody federal government shutdown.

It’s the end of September, isn’t it? It’s federal budget-passing time, isn’t it?

It’s the season when our great political leaders in Congress finally have to stand up tall and decide who in the federal government will get the tens and hundreds of billions of dollars we don’t really have and will be borrowing for our grandchildren to pay off.

For most Americans, shutting down the federal government means nothing. First off, it’s an empty threat that rarely ever happens – the last time was 10 years ago. (America survived, by the way.)

Almost every year at this time we hear the same scary and sad media stories about the threat of federal parks closing and federal employees – aka, bureaucrats – being furloughed and not getting their paychecks until the deadlock is over.

But........

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