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why doesn't the amerikkkan govt just save a tiny bit of funding for the few things that immediately run out of money for some reason during a "shutdown" (lemmy.ml)

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richest country on earth immediately stops paying its entire civil service when there's a disagreement on the budget which is something that literally only happens in the USA as far as I know.

I'm sure there's some 🤓☝️ reason like the govt runs on a blockchain that uses proof-of-anti-communist-law-passing to mine new blocks or something

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. And I did read the "why" - which is the US can't "spend" without a budget (except it still obviously does spend money, they just don't pay federal employees lol) - but why hasn't any big brained govt worried about losing its majority (or just a fan of not pissing 0.1% of GDP per week of a shutdown) not spare a tiny bit of a budget ahead of time to cover that risk?

Though saying all that I've answered my question haven't I? Shutdowns benefits both parties at some point so they're never gonna get rid of it just like they'll never get rid of the filibuster. It's just one of those things where both parties pretend to be really angry at the other for a little bit before agreeing to send another billion dollars to Israel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah it's not in the interest of either party to get rid of it because it's an ocassion to wrest something from each other. Neither is actually interested in good governance, if they were they'd just get rid of the debt ceiling entirely.