Likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says that a government shutdown might be inevitable — and that, really, won’t be so bad for needy Americans.
“It’s a very different environment this time. It think first of all, a lot of the things that were shut down were automated –like Social Security checks and Veterans checks — so it’s not going to be as draconian, if it does happen,” Huckabee said on CBS. “But there has to be at some point a reckoning with reality.”
“I think it could happen. And maybe it has to,” he added. “Because sometime, either now or later, the government’s going to shut down, either from bankruptcy in the future, or from a targeted effect to try to get someone’s attention that we’re overspending and not managing at all.”
This is a fairly novel view. Check out, for instance, what former Clinton department heads Robert Reich and Donna Shalala said about the consequences of a shutdown last year.
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