I'm a public servant

I've been a proud employee of the Federal Government for 25 years.  I work to protect the health of animal populations and think that I have an important job.  I must live by a higher set of ethical guidelines and am held to a standard that is greater than a lay person.  That is why I am so upset why our congress is shirking their constitutional responsibility and using procedural parlor tricks to try and repeal a law that was passed by congress and found valid by the Supreme Court.

Congress has a responsibility to fund a budget for the government.  It's a relatively easy prospect and when you look at the business side of the government, the 17% of the total budget that funds programs and people (other than the military) you see a fairly simple picture.

1. You understand that the way to balance the Federal budget isn't to continually cut the 17% and ignore the 83%.

2. The budget process is a constitutional necessity.

I resent the fact that my job is being held hostage by a small group of congressmen that are using procedural processes to try and re-litigate an existing law.

They are shirking their responsibility.  Congress has a duty to pass a budget by October 1 to fund operations.  It shouldn't be a political cudgel.

This whole shutdown is bizarre.   The Affordable Care Act is a law, certified by the Supreme Court.  It is not related to the budget.  If a member of congress has a problem with that law, they should change it via the normal process and not hold my job hostage like a group of spoiled children who can't get their way.