Government Shutdown And The Ills Of Democracy
Democracy's social ills to her own children! Fiscal Policy And Life's Demands In USA Under Government Shutdown Life Goes On Irrespectively : My interest in understanding budgeting processes in USA and the life of an ordinary woman or man on say, Market Street San Francisco CA got piqued following the Dec 2018+ shutdown that is clearly hurting everyone. The hurt manifests emotionally, psychologically, communally, socially and financially. I remembered a long time ago, another lifetime, when a Minister of health of a country somewhere in Africa decreed that ARVs (medication to suppress HIV) should not be provided to People Living With HIV. After all, he argued, they brought the virus into their lives due to promiscuity. Bah! He was (un) ministerial and (dis) honourable! We argued that politics (whose tenet is service delivery) should actually put ego aside and work side by side with her sister public health. It turned out that actually t...