It’s Day 3 of the federal government shutdown. The President says he’s “exasperated,” after another closed door meeting that ended up in another stalemate.
Perhaps America can learn something from the Australian Government shutdown of 1975. After the 1975 shutdown, a representative of Queen Elizabeth II, dismissed and replaced then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. A new bill that authorized funding for the government was passed almost immediately. Then, he proceeded to dismiss the entire Australian Parliament.
It was thought that the methods were unorthodox at the time but it seems that it was successful. Why? Australia hasn’t had another government shutdown since!
