RonDon said:
On another note when the US govt was closed down (sequestering) about 2 years ago we met a lot of Europeans visiting National parks who could not get into camp site and had to scramble for lodging in hotels & motels. Local people even put these people up in their own homes.

Our friends who did this said none of these Europeans complained about being on vacation and not being able to get into places. At the hotel where we were staying we met some people from France. I apologized to them for the shutdown and they said it didn't bother them, that it was right to fight for things as they do in France.

Very different responses to what we're hearing here. Here we see posts with lack of respect for the people of a foreign country.