Via CBS News:
It’s all very exasperating to Freda Wilhite, a 75-year-old retired restaurant manager.
“I blame it on all of them,” she says, sitting in a leather armchair in the lobby of the Capital Towers senior-living building in Raleigh, N.C. “I think Obama is being kind of crappy about it. But I also think the Senate or the Congress, whoever it is, is being just as crappy for not trying to reach an agreement — do ANYTHING — to keep the government going.”
Asked which side should give in, Wilhite threw up her hands.
“Lord, I don’t know,” she says. “Somebody should give a little and somebody should give a little more. I don’t know how to fix it. I just know I don’t like it.”
Neither does Ivan Nelson, a third-generation central Illinois farmer.
“It make me angry, but the worst part of it is I’m sitting here not knowing what I’m angry about,” says the 67-year-old corn and bean farmer, taking a morning break from harvesting. “These guys created the (political) system. If they can’t live with it, they can correct it. You think they’d be smart enough to do that.”