1864 Shutdown

[CHuDWah]

I don't want this to turn into a verboten thread on the current shutdown - just an observation that things haven't changed much in 150 years

DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], September 23, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
No Funds.—There is a very serious complaint existing that Government Officers in this Department are, and have been for some time, completely out of funds. this is altogether wrong. The army should be paid. Daily laborers who have to support their families by their toil at the workshops, cannot afford to wait for months. We are told that contractors for important Government material have been obliged to exhaust their private fortunes, in order to retain their operatives. Have the machines at Columbia broken down?

 

[Dave Wilma]

Even if they had the money it was Confederate currency.

 

[Seduzal]

I don't want this to turn into a verboten thread on the current shutdown - just an observation that things haven't changed much in 150 years

DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], September 23, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
No Funds.—There is a very serious complaint existing that Government Officers in this Department are, and have been for some time, completely out of funds. this is altogether wrong. The army should be paid. Daily laborers who have to support their families by their toil at the workshops, cannot afford to wait for months. We are told that contractors for important Government material have been obliged to exhaust their private fortunes, in order to retain their operatives. Have the machines at Columbia broken down?

We'll look at that, learned something new every day!