None of us wanted people to go hungry or without pay. [View all]

I'm so sick of the threads about the ending of the shutdown saying "did you want people to go hungry, do you have the means to go two months without pay, etc., etc." (paraphrasing, of course)

None of us wanted people to suffer. That's why we are Democrats and not Republicans. We actually care about other people.

But some of us see the very real possibility of things getting WORSE down the line instead of better because of the way the shutdown ended. This was a lot more complicated than what some want to admit on here, and I see a couple of DU posters who are really pushing the cheerleading to explain the ending. Okay, you are entitled to your opinion. But so are the rest of us.

This isn't the thread for long winded, fact-filled arguments. There are several active threads where that is being discussed so there is robust discussion going on about it all, and posters can go to those threads to engage.

I just want to clarify that no one here wanted people to suffer and I, for one, am very offended when that is suggested.