A blurb in the NY Times caught my eye:
The great irony is that the shutdown only proved the indispensable value of the very government Trump so often expresses such disdain for.”
I hate to resort to facts, but ABC-and the Washington Post teamed up on a projectable poll in which 18% of Americans said they had been inconvenienced by the shutdown.
Is 18% a big number or a little number?
To put that number in perspective, take the converse of the WaPo finding:
82% of Americans had not been inconvenienced by the shutdown.
That’s less than 1 in 5 … and, it includes the furloughed gov’t employees who have certainly been inconvenienced.
That doesn’t sound like a big deal.
But, the 35-day shutdown did surface a significant pain point: government managed air travel air travel…
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