No Hiking or Peeing

An article about what a government shutdown would mean for 'regular' people (no rest areas or state parks for starters).
We were ranting about it at my internship today (both of the budgets for early childhood have yet to be passed.)
Every single one of our legislators, or at least party leadership ON BOTH SIDES deserves to be gone. For the second year in a row they've screwed the people of Minnesota but what do they care - they're getting paid!
If you're Gov. Tim Pawlenty or a state legislator ... No worries, mates, about your next paychecks. You took care of yourselves by enacting the state government finance bill during the regular session.