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The End of the American Government
The government of the United States dealings are involved in every Americans lives, on October 1, 2013 the United States federal government shutdown was solely caused by the President of the United States and Congress members ineptness to find a compromise on the budget. The effects are far reaching, from national parks being closed to traffic and food manufacturing investigations being stopped. The government shutdown and subsequent furlough of 40% of this nations federal employees occurred because no budget was approved. In a news article from the Huffington Post on the topic of why the government shutdown the author says, “The reason that the House of Representatives and the Senate cannot agree is that the House of Representatives are using this power of budget approval to stall the budget so that they may show their ...