It’s almost as it the news media are trying to get us to hide under our beds in fear.

From CNN to USA Today to Fox and beyond, all we hear is, “There’s a shutdown! There’s a shutdown!” Of course there’s a bloody federal government shutdown. It’s the end of September, isn’t it? It’s federal budget-passing time, isn’t it?

For most Americans, shutting down the federal government means nothing.

First off, it’s an empty threat that rarely ever happens — the last time was six years ago. (America survived, by the way.) Yet almost every year at this time we hear the same scary and sad media stories about the threat of federal parks closing and federal employees — aka, bureaucrats — being furloughed and not getting their paychecks until the deadlock is over.

But shutting down the government for

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