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It's Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019, from Slate. It's the gist I might pass get the second

day of our new year. The 13th day of the government shutdown are long national nightmare. Well,

not maybe exactly a nightmare. It's more like waking up for a drink in the middle of

the night and taking a couple more minutes to get back to sleep. But then when you do, you

get a bit of neck pain.

Our long national that thing that I just described drags on. Look, it's not that I'm insensitive

to the pains of the shutdown. It's that the vast majority of Americans are insensitive

to said pains. There are costs. Don't buy that there aren't costs. It is hurting the macro

economy. It is diminishing the fees the government takes in. The government needs money. See,

you're going to have to tax you more or go deeper into debt. There are all these unseen

functions that the government does that people actually do need a hot approval here, a small

business loan there, a bureau of engraving work order over Yonder. But this doesn't register

beyond the general sentiment of, uh, government, this is shambles, these clowns in Washington

can't get along, which doesn't punish or favor any actor, even the actor who said, you

know what I'll say? Yes. If we don't get what we want, one way or the other, whether it's

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