# federal government shutdown

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/federal-government-shutdown/803079 "2017-11-29T18:49:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/federal-government-shutdown/803079/64 "2017-11-30T20:51:08Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> [A Better Deal](https://www.democrats.senate.gov/abetterdeal). It gives broad overview strokes, with links to more specific summaries, with links to very detailed positions. I don’t see links to specific bills, but otherwise there’s a lot there to look at.

Repairing infrastructure is a good idea, but I don’t see anyone making money from it except contractors and the illegals they hire. Watching the Broadway bridge being replaced last year, most of the guys I saw were Mexican. Perhaps some of them were citizens and not sending money to Mexico to support their families.

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