Opinion : Letter to the Editor: The Shutdown and Peace

Dear Editor, 

Ninth day plus of the Senator Schumer government shutdown.   What is the real rub?  A trillion and a half dollars subsidy to remotely make Obamacare remotely affordable. Funding for the same does not end till the end of the year, but no pay for soldiers, sailors, airmen, air traffic controllers, and others for now.   The rub is that the aforementioned people must report for duty whether they receive a paycheck or not.  I sympathize with these. While a working stiff I could not survive long without a monthly paycheck, now retired, same thing. 

Subsidies for the Affordable Care Act can wait; those not paid but required to report for duty cannot.  This is nothing more than a temper tantrum by the Democrat Senate.  Senator Schumer – Get off the Dime!

One other note:  What may be occurring in the Middle East – PEACE; is historic.  Who would have thought this possible?  Many Presidents and Secretaries of State have tried, but failed.  President Trump and his team may have succeeded in getting the impossible.  Time will tell, but I am praying it is so; so should we all.

Blessings and salutations.

John Stiegelmeyer