U.S. Government shuts down.

[kandrathe]

Because the government is not, nor should it be, run like a private industry. A lot of stuff the government is responsible for will always run at a net loss. Private industry would have cut those money-losing divisions.

Some of it. But, we're talking about net change. What is population growth? What is the growth of government labor as a % of population? What is the growth of government labor spending compared to the growth of GDP? Surely we can replace the room full of accountants with adding machines equally in public and private sectors.