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Locals feel impact as government shutdown drags on

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By NIKI TURNER
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RBC I Despite Rio Blanco County’s distance from Washington, D.C., the partial government shutdown—the longest in U.S. history—affects local residents on many levels.
Federal employees in various departments will miss their second paycheck this week as the longest government shutdown in history stretches into its second month. For the seven full-time employees at the Blanco Ranger District Office of the United States Forest Service, the shutdown puts them in a place…

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  1. Lee Smith
    January 25, 2019 at 10:31 am

    I understand how it affects government employees disproportionately, as a student is has slowed my financial aid. However, it also shows how much of the Federal government is NOT NEEDED. This is the time that as a people we look around and see how much government we can get rid of. This is the prime time to determine how to gut this growing cancer. The government already consumes at least 33% of our income for what? To create departments to Tax us for doing good, and others to Fine us for doing bad?

    Keep it closed. Show the politicians just how irrelevant they are to our survival and prosperity.

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