The government is back open. Museums will reopen their doors, tax refund checks will resume being sent, and 700,000 workers can go back to work -- with pay, even!
Now that it's over, let's make a pact: Let's not do this ever again.
Seriously, we have to stop doing this. The economy is just now really starting to recover from the Great Recession. Pointless political shutdowns are the quickest way to short-circuit that recovery and self-inflict pain. As comedian John Stewart put it, America is "sitting on its own [male private parts]."
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