Credit: wok / Foter / CC BY-NC-NDThe government “closed” this
week. The quotation marks are meant to indicate that the worst
parts of the government remain open at some level. The
government is so entwined in our lives that even a partial shutdown
has hurt innocent people. Sheldon Richman shows how the U.S.
government has a history of treating its own citizens like
garbage.

View this article.