important and interesting point. a great expression of what we deem is important and not. while i absolutely think the department of defense is important, the fact that 300,000 plus employees are now returned to work does beg the question, what about the other employees and aren t they essential, too? that s exactly right. part of the political problem here, i think for democrats, for progressiv progressives, president of the united states, the way they are shut down actually incentivizes the republican party to shut down. they know the industrial complex which they are big supporters of financially, budgetarily, politically, it basically stays open. meanwhile, the parts of the government the republicans