<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Did you say something about a lack of gravity, Wayne?<div><br></div><div>Or is that about a movie that hasn't opened yet?</div><div><br></div><div>The Congressman from the already stressed economy in Wadesville, IN, asseverated,</div><div><br></div><div>"We have to get something out of this - and I don’t know what that even is!"</div><div><br></div><div>Krugman I think has got at least a bit of it right:</div><div><br></div><div>"... my working theory is that wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing — correctly — that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.</div><br>"And nobody knows how it ends."<div><br></div><div>But it does remind one of events of 80 years ago. <br><div><br></div><div>Chaos may be preferable.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Oct 4, 2013, at 10:58 AM, E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森 <<a href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Some parts of the US are reporting lack of sunshine, hail and damaging
winds, and <br>
there is loss of gravity in some parts of Ohio due to the government
shutdown.<br>
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It is rumored that the Wabash river may quit flowing which may damage<br>
the mosquito population in Posey County Indiana's Point Township.<br>
Local sporting goods stores fear a drop in DEET sales that could<br>
substantially damage the already stressed economy in Wadesville, IN,<br>
and in New Haven, IL they are searching for a pencil to write to<br>
their congressman and a map to find out which district they are in <br>
this week.<br>
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It's total chaos, folks.<br>
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Subject: Your Rep. Is One of a Few With Influence to End the Government
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Robert Naiman,</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 0px;"><img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://fcnl.org/images/email/switchboard.jpg" style="margin: 0px 1em 1em;" align="right" border="0"></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 0px;">Your
representative is one of a small group of lawmakers who might be able
to influence the House leadership to end the government shutdown.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em;">Will you call his or her
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name is [name] and I live in [city, state].</li>
<li style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em;">I want Congress to
approve legislation that would fund the federal government at the same
levels as last year without adding other policy issues. </span></li>
<li style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em;">Will the representative
support a "clean" Continuing Resolution and encourage other members to
do the same?</span></li>
<li style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em;">I look forward to hearing
about the representative's work to end this government shutdown.</span></li>
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down the federal government to make a political point is going too far.
This closure is unnecessary and costly to our country. Please ask your
representative to take action to bring it to an end.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 0px;">Thank
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