Readers Respond: Shutdown averted

While legislators were able to head off a government shutdown, readers found very little to celebrate. Here's what we heard.

“It disgusts me how our national politicians act and spend our money. The $38 billion was nothing to cut -- a pathetic effort to correct previous run-a-way spending. The U.S. economy is like the Titanic. We haven’t hit the iceberg yet, but it’s visible through the fog.”

— Mike Uhl

Fatal Funnel, Inc. 

“Partisan political grandstanding with the common good at stake can't be very positive! It really makes you wonder what is going on inside the Beltway.”

— Richard Freund