Serious Shutdown? Serious Disappointment

Seriously? A Shut Down? They can't figure this out? Makes me sad, disappointed, and even angry. Does anyone in Congress actually care about real people or just their own ideologies?

I blame both parties. The Democrats should have taken care of this before the end of the year when they had control. Instead, they left the hard choices up to "later". Well, later is here. The Republicans are allowing themselves to be beholden to their right wing constituency. They believe they were sent with a "strong message" from the electorate. Yep - the message was "we aren't all that thrilled with what we have, so let's see what you got." The message was NOT "we think you, the Republicans are awesome and can do the job." Will they ever figure this out?

I say to both parties, "get over yourselves".No one wins if the government shuts down.  You have 7 hours to get this done, now go to work like we asked you to. If they cannot compromise, I think that the members of Congress, the President and his staff shouldn't get paid and all the other government workers still go to work and get paid. Then we can see how long it will take for the politicians to work out a deal.