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Hello, America. Mark Levin here. I hope you had a great weekend. Our number 877-381-3811-8773-81381-11. You know what I enjoy most about the weekend, ladies and gentlemen? The government is shut down.

Oh, and notice we have like 28 national federal holidays. Can I ever have enough?

And what happens when those holidays, oh, the bureaucrats take a vacation, the government is shut down, right?

So when the government shut down from Friday night to Monday morning and when the government shut down on national federal holidays, nobody's squealing.

Act, most of us are enjoying ourselves. Have you noticed, subpoenas, warrants, rarely issued on the weekend?

Have you noticed if you call the Department of Agriculture for some information, nobody's on the other end of the phone?

Have you noticed regulations aren't issued on the weekend? Have you noticed this?

Have you noticed that you're freer on the weekend than you are doing weekdays? Isn't that a good thing?

You know, we're going to shut down for two weeks. Oh, my God. So what Republicans, not Republicans and rhinos, what real conservative should say is, we're just taking a two week holiday.

That's all. We're done. It's a two week holiday. Folks on Social Security, it's a matter of law. You'll get your checks.

Using Medicare as a matter of law, you'll get your checks. Veterans as a matter of law, you'll get your checks and some others. That's carved out.

Just a vacation. That's all. For the bureaucrats, it's a paid vacation. They're always reimbursed for the time that they're out.

It's a pretty good gig if you can get it. Mr. Badoos, you're not paid for the times that you're out beyond the times you're allotted, are you?

No, you're not. Most Americans are not. Electricians, plumbers, painters,

Uber drivers, lift drivers, taxi drivers, bus drivers. This, I can think of a thousand and one or more professions and services where people aren't paid when they don't work.

They're certainly not reimbursed when they decide not to work. We know what a scam this is. We know what a scam this is.

So now they're already starting the initial talks. We don't get this on the bus bill passed. We're going to have to shut down the government next week.

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