Well, it is day 5 in the government shutdown, and all I can say is "Enough Already!" I don't remember the 1995 shutdown at all. Of course, I was not tied into the federal government then. But currently, I am indirectly tied into it. I am not employed by the federal government, but as a Social Security Disability lawyer now, it will affect me. Apparently, the hearings that are already scheduled will still be held (thank goodness). But no new hearings are going to be scheduled. So I am OK for a little while.
But it is worrisome immediately for the federal workers who are furloughed, and also for those who are awaiting for their disability hearings to be scheduled. The claimants have already had to wait for more than a year, sometimes multiple years, to get to this point. And now the scheduling is on the back burner.
Enough already! Let's get this show back on the road.
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