A Simple Question

The latest manufactured crisis in Washington is failure to raise the debt ceiling. Our dear President, his Treasury Secretary and a host of Democratic morons from Harry Reid to Nancy Pelosi to obscure politicians like Congressman Paul Tonko from NY predict economic catastrophe if the debt ceiling is not raised and the government shuts down.

Really?

Have we in the great bastion of free enterprise sunk so low, have so many in this great country opted to suck at the government teat, that a failure of the government to write checks to constituents will result in economic catastrophe?

Really?

But this is not the simple question I want to ask. My simple question is this:

Why do such crises result in only half of the government shutting down?

Let me explain. If the debt ceiling is not raised, the check writing half of the government shuts down, but the revenue collecting half continues to operate. Why? Why not shut the government down completely?

No more government stipends, grants and subsidies. And no more taxes.

Let the country's wage earners experience what it means to keep all the fruits of their labor and to have the government totally off their back, which begs another simple question.

If both the check writing and tax collecting halves of the government were to shut down, would you want it to start up again...ever?