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SHUTDOWN: Money not well spent

| October 18, 2013 9:00 PM

Yeah! The Republicans let the government begin operating again. And, according to Standard and Poors, the shutdown only cost our country $24 billion. That would have fed a lot of hungry people. And yippee! We’ll get to go through this same Tea Party tantrum in about two months.

JANET CALLEN

Coeur d’Alene