Also, this will never stop happening. The American people have irreconcilable differences. We don't want to be one nation. You want a government that has nothing to do with a world that I want to live in. We can't secede, that is not allowed or feasable, and we won't just die off wholesale. Continuing Resolutions are a compromise of sorts, because no actual appropriations can be agreed on. Every year, your ideas of spending will fail to match ours and we will be able to shut down the government unless we have absolutely no political power whatsoever. If you refuse to negotiate, you will simply have gridlock. Forever. It will never end for you.
An alternative route is to push progressive programs where you can get them and allow our radicalism to hammer out the budget and force us to make hard choices on what must remain. You know that the budget will still increase forever, somehow. You don't have to give us a concession on the individual mandate delay if it isn't politically feasible to do so, BTW. Help us shut down the postal service, increase online education grants while cutting spending on traditional college loans. Help us kill roaming expense beasts which fail to serve any master these days and we will be negotiating.
Your refusal to negotiate on ever expanding waste is not becoming or a "reasonable, moderate" approach.
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