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June 22, 2005
Government shutdown: A dire picture
Government shutdown: A dire picture
This article explained services that would be shut downed if the government does not reach an agreement. One service they talked about was highway construction. The article stated that "175 major highway construction projects would be suspended." Also, thousands of employees could be laid off. The Stillwater lift bridge would have to left up so boats can still get through and that would leave 12,000 vehicles to find a new route because they could not use the bridge. They did say that they would work to maintain services in healthy and safety. Also, 88 rest areas would be closed and safety inspections on gas pipelines would be limited. Also, people would not be able to get new driver licenses and about 48,000 cards go through a month. These are just some of the things stated.
Our group had two different views going. One was that it is wrong to do this just to scare people. Like people who would be laid off, that is not a joking matter, ecspecially if you have a family to feed. The other view was that maybe it is necessary to scare people so then hopefully it will push for an agreement to happen. We also were wondering who was coming up with what would be closing and staying open because we thought that they should be spending their time on coming up with an agreement, rather than figuring out something that hasn't happened and can be prevented from happening as well.