Technically, the FedGov “shut down” for about an hour on Saturday morning. That’s because the Senate did not pass the “continuing resolution” spending bill until well after midnight, the magic “deadline” for the latest budget (spending) deal.

Did your heart go pitty-patter during that 60 or 70 minutes? Did the stock market crash? Did the bank call in all your federally-insured loans or seize all your federally-insured deposits? Did China, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Mexico and Canada launch a massive invasion of the States? (Look at the local Post Office and see what flag is flying, just to be sure!) Did Egypt invade Israel? Belarus invade Poland? Grand Fenwick occupy New York City? Did global warming spike another two degrees C? Did air pollution alert sirens screech over LA, Denver, and Boston?

No? Are you sure? Whom are you depending on for news? The mainstream media? More on that…

Actually, didn’t Texas and Florida miss their chance to secede, when they could have raced onto bases and military posts through gates where MPs and SPs had been sent back to the barracks because they couldn’t be paid?

Of course not.

Because we’ve just been treated to another episode of that reality TV show, Congress in Action – or is that Congress Inaction?

Admittedly, this episode had a little more drama than most. Not just the clock-stopping post-buzzer save by the Conscript Parents of the Senate. (Did they really stop the clock, like State legisgators did in the old, pre-digital age? Who knows?)

The incoming Massa, The Donald v 2.0, got involved. So did his Leninesque puppetmaster or shill, that evil guy Musk. And his Beria-like toadie Vivek. (Roameswarmy or something close?) They put horrible pressure on the congress-critturs and scared all the Fedgov bureaucrats and all the desperate, needy people (more later) half to death with their interference in the sacrosanct ritual dance of the House of Representatives. According to the mainstream media. Telling lies and more lies, making threats, getting the foundations and footings of their fascist regime all primed and ready for the next January 6th.

So the financial bloat – and the stench of overdone pork – of Fiscal Year 2024 continues on, at least until March. When likely, even with DOGE in full swing, the same ritual will be repeated in this continuing soap opera. Meanwhile, most American’s wallets will continue to be emptied by the stinking uniparty Congress and all its minions. Not just living Americans of course – nor just working, adult Americans: the wallet lightening will affect children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. (So much for “it’s for the chilluns” talk.) The FedGov will continue to rob Peter to pay Paul – on an incredibly grand scale.

And for the next 30 days (and after-affects well beyond, even unto the 10th generation, no doubt) Uncle Joe’s babysitters will continue to accelerate their plucking of the golden goose they consider the American taxpayer.

Of course, a few people will benefit from all the stolen goodies this time: $100 billion goes for disaster relief, going all the way back to Maui but especially after the hurricanes in North Carolina’s mountains and nearby. Or rather, the parasites who are government contractors and the like, who will end up with most of it. $170 million to the State of Maryland, who is now getting the FedGov to foot the entire bill for replacing the bridge in Baltimore – as well as dealing with the mess.

Normally, (or at least officially), Federally-assisted primary highways (FAP) get 90% of their costs of construction and maintenance and repair paid by the FedGov – well, of course, actually by the motorists’ paying the federal motor fuel excise tax – the part that isn’t spent on buying pieces of weird art to decorate the highways and spent on subsidizing bus services, light rail, and electric cars. But for this bridge, the taxpayers (and toll payers) of Baltimore and Maryland get a gift from Congress this year: the feds pay it all with their stolen money, not the city’s or the State’s.

But that also overlooks Uncle Joe’s Christmas donative to about 55,000 government workers. Who are forgiven a staggering 62 billion dollars in student debt. Loans they made to get college degrees of dubious real value but which let them get cushy government jobs that pay many times more than your average fast food or motel maid worker. So that many of these guvmint workers can then lord it over taxpayers. (Of course, this is really an indirect subsidy of yet another gang of parasites: the administrators, faculty, and staff of the enormous public and “private” universities, colleges, community colleges and even trade schools. Who feast on tuition and fees gouged out of students and families.

Of course, it is fun to speculate how many of those 55,000 bureaucrats will lose their forgiveness if the DOGE eliminates their jobs quickly. (And remember, while there are government workers that actually do something productive (like clean snow and dead deer off highways, or sweep floors and mop out toilets), they are not the ones that needed a college degree to get hired by the bureaucrats.)