09-27-2008, 08:03 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Music City
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Originally Posted by Oldfart
osuche,
In 1975 a hostile senate refused to sign the money bills which gave the Australian Government the funds to operate. As a young public servant I was faced with the very real prospect of being unable to pay my rent and feed the wife and cat.
This created chaos for a couple of weeks.
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OF, we saw a similar govt shutdown a little over a decade ago, when Slick Willie & Newt the Coot got into a staredown over the budget. Fortunately, I chose not to go into the family business of being a govt. worker drone, but the fireworks were just as spectacular to watch, even if one's own wallet wasn't the rope in that little tug o' war...
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