Government Shuts Down Statue Of Liberty; Your Poor And Huddled Masses Can Suck It

Your Poor And Huddled Masses Can Suck It

On Tuesday, the United States government shut down, taking America's most iconic symbol of liberty and progress with it.

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Visitors in Lower Manhattan this morning were told the Statue of Liberty--which in America's darkest hours has stood to represent freedom, egalitarianism, and a functioning government of the people, by the people--was closed.

Meanwhile, America's poor and huddled masses could receive hundreds of thousands of furlough notices. At least one state has already shuttered a food program for struggling women and their infants and children.

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Ellis Island--where the world's tired, poor, homeless, and "tempest-tost" were once given refuge after a long and perilous journey--was also closed Tuesday.

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Rear view of an immigrant family on Ellis Island looking across New York Harbor at the Statue of Liberty, 1930s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Reports indicate that these two emblems of a better world will be closed until further notice.

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Statue Of Liberty Closed Due To Government Shutdown

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