Quote of the Day - Essential Services edition

I pretty much passed over the whole ZOMG-teh-gubmint-is-shutting-down!!!1!!one!! thing.  Not interested in political kabuki.  But I was derelict in not linking to Who's your Nanny parsing CNN's report on just what will (and what won't) shut down:

FBI, Federal Marshals, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal prisons continue to operate (Of course. These are essential after all. And anyone who understands the nature of the State understands why these are essential.)

CNN in bold black, Who's Your Nanny in bold red).

That's your view on your government's view of "essential" government.  Jefferson would have wept.