Minnesota back to work after shutdown

[Reporter]

Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:36:00 AM EDT

Minn. government reopening after 20-day shutdown


ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's government is reopening for business after a nearly three-week shutdown closed state parks, laid off some 22,000 public workers and demonstrated the wide reach of state agencies.

Most state employees were told to start reporting to work at 7 a.m. Thursday, a day after Gov. Mark Dayton signed a budget deal that ended the nation's longest state government shutdown in a decade. It also cost Minnesota millions in lost revenue.

[sammyxiong]

Yeah, so where are those who advocated that government should get out of the way, get our of their lives, and leave them alone? Not surprisingly, many of them are the same ones who were complaining for the past 3 weeks about all their inconveniences and lashing out about the very lack of services which they previously deemed as "wasteful" spending! Amazing how twisted and contradicting people's logics are...I guess some would say it's just the American way?