>>>>It's happened.
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>>>If you only just found out you're probably the last person in the western world to do so :-}
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>>>Must admit, although things looked tougher than usual, I thought they would still scrape in under the wire......
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>>I think they'll fix this soon enough, or else the people would notice that they don't notice much difference between functional and non-functional government...
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>>Look at Italy - during the 2nd half of the XX century, they had an average of one month a year without a government. Nobody remembers those months as different from others.
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>Italy is not exactly known as a smooth operation.

It's a different country. I don't know much either - it's just that it seems to work the same when there's a government and when there's not.

>The American late night host David Letterman had a good observation last night. He said if there are 800,000 non-essential government jobs maybe that's part of the problem.

Which part? The 99% part? :)