Why Not Leave Them Shut Down?

Don Surber has some suggestions for those Federal agencies that are shut down today because of the weekend's snow storm:

“The Office of Personnel Management has decided to close agencies in the Washington D.C. region on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, due to the weekend’s snowstorm,”Federal News Radio reported. “Nonemergency employees (including employees on pre-approved leave) will be granted excused absence for the number of hours they were scheduled to work. This does not apply to employees on leave without pay, leave without pay for military duty, workers’ compensation, suspension, or in another nonpay status.”

Non-emergency agencies?

They used to call these agencies non-essential and in an era when the federal government’s debt is so large that it threatens national security, it is time to cut the non-essentials.

Get rid of them.

Perhaps not permanently, but tell everyone taking today off for snow not to bother to show up for work again until we quit overspending tax revenue by $4 billion a day, 7 days a week.

Exactly. You could probably keep most of those agencies closed for a month and nobody would notice.