These days it has become routine for the state to pass emergency spending bills, keeping government going for another two or three weeks at a time, ensuring that from lifeguards to prison guards, everyone continues to be paid with real checks.
Here (secondary care facility) I know the doctors, nurses, guards, everyone else.
They have to be on guard with everyone; they're always facing an unknown.
There is a desolate station where passengers pour out to gasp in the thin air, eat piping hot empanadas sold from baskets carried on the heads of traders, and buy alpaca-wool hats, before the guard corrals everyone back on board.
There were further issues across the years until his recent move to the NTC, where a security guard checks everyone is at home before lights out at 10.30pm.
The scenes with her scintillate, as she runs her family and the film like a talented point guard making everyone around her better than they have any right to appear.
Before long, the police showed up, tried to control the situation, had "missiles" pelted at them, gave up and resolved to just stand guard until everyone had cleared off.
"At night (the guards) keep everyone awake, laughing, slamming doors, talking.
"During the week I saw the hospital guards disarm everyone who came inside [to admit patients], including Taliban".
"They would have these girls eighteen or twenty years old as guards, and everyone knew that the gangs had recruited them to work inside," Q explained.
