The shutdown’s real lesson: Government has taken hostage too much of the economy - MarketWatch
I expect Trump and the Republicans to use this self-engineered shutdown as a pretext to privatize as many government functions as possible. The over-arching objective of the Trump regime, to the extent that it has one amid the chaos, is to advance the project of letting plutocrats strip-mine the national government of as many of its assets as they can grab before they are thrown out. This op-ed from Market Watch is part of that project. The national park system is one of the main targets. Airport are on the list. With airport terminals starting to shut down as unpaid TSA screeners call in sick, it won't be long before Trump and his enablers start talking privatization.
