Unless you're a federal employee (you'd already know if you were), like to visit a lot of museums, or only go to national parks when rangers are working, it won't really affect you.
US Federal Government Shutdown | Shutdown Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Raised
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Unless you're a federal employee (you'd already know if you were), like to visit a lot of museums, or only go to national parks when rangers are working, it won't really affect you.
Depends, do you work for the Federal government? Were you planning a trip to a national park or museum? It's hard to know without knowing your story.
theprodigy
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Your voice will start to change, and there will be hair where there hasn't been hair before.
Community Forum
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you know those side effects listed in drug ads? pretty much all of those at once.
epic typo
Oh shit, thanks for catching that :lol
Well if you work in a restaurant I'd expect a lot fewer people to show up since they're getting furloughed or paychecks withheld.
if you don't work for the government AND don't rely on "non-essential" government services like some social services, yes.
Also, this.
empty vessel
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Wrong. Lots of businesses will suffer. I won't be getting a coffee at my local coffee shop for a while. I'll probably cancel cable as well.
Did you not know that the federal government funds private businesses (and is at root the sole source of business funding)?
Well you should.
RiccochetJ
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Because he made a service into a career. Like all politicians nowadays. I would really love term limits for these dorks. They need more time though if there were term limits.
Or business from people who get paychecks from the government, or to whom the government is a customer, or to whom a contractor of the government is a customer.....
I've already got the uncontrollable flatulence.
AllIsOneIsNone
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Someone should pull a project mayhem and destroy all the empty federal buildings.
Or, you know, unless you like a decent healthy economy.
I don't really know how to use Twitter effectively but I picked a government shutdown hashtag and almost all tweets that placed specific blame were saying that "people on foodstamps are going to cause riots tomorrow so watch out."
I have so little faith in the voting populace that I just feel jaded at this point. I guess I can latch on to the idea that people who bitch on Twitter aren't representative of the majority, but I don't know how true that is...
I have so little faith in the voting populace that I just feel jaded at this point. I guess I can latch on to the idea that people who bitch on Twitter aren't representative of the majority, but I don't know how true that is...
RiccochetJ
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Subtly.
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You realize this is because the Tea Party wave of 2010, a sect of 30 or so people in the Republican House Majority, has thus far been telling the rest of their party, their Speaker, the Senate, and the White House how to run things?
~30 people. And don't you forget that. Republicans will try to call out Dems who aren't perfect by any means but this is a crisis manufactured by an incredibly small but ideologically insane group of people.
John Boehner is not doing his job -- you should know he has the power to bring the clean CR bill (what the Senate sent back) to the floor, and he would have had at least 100 Republican votes for that. Combined with Democratic votes, it would have passed just in time and there would be no shutdown.
When 30 people within a party that only controls one branch of Government are dictating the entire process thus far, that's all you really need to know, outside posturing be damned. The Tea Party's platform is one of pure lunacy, plain and simple.
No, only the Feds have shutdown, not state, county, or city governments.
They're just the vocal minority. Keep in mind the Dems got 1.7 million more votes for their House members than the GOP, the only reason Pelosi isn't speaker right now is that congressional districts have been gerrymandered to hell and back.
If you live in washington DC?
possibly.
Otherwise, why would it? This is a federal government shutdown, not a city/state govt shutdown.
Ok. Thanks.
Demoncarnotaur
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This is just so bizarre. =/
Hey dude it's cool let's go ride bikes in the torrential downpours and go to strip clubs w/devo and run into girls I've dated at said strip clubs.
SenorArdilla
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This whole thing is a train wreck. Can't believe that it actually led to this.
No way. 7+ days
smokeandmirrors
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I'm holding on strong to 9 days.
What this comes down to is that John Boehner is more interested in his speakership than funding the government. He's not a tea partier he just doesn't want to get kicked out by them. If he would bring the clean Senate passed CR to the floor it would pass with a majority of democrats and a small minority of republicans. But he isn't willing to do that because it would spell the end of his speakership, or so he thinks.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Below zero percent.
And that's bad, right?
If you're not a crazy person, yes.
Cutting non-essential shit isn't going to tailspin the country.
jamesinclair
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No, DC isnt shutting down anything.
Full metro, bus and circulator service.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...236ad2-2a0a-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html
DC has no desire to deal with this shit.
It's certainly not going to help.
It certainly isn't going to fucking help the economy.
In combination with the dumb shit I know they're going to do in about two weeks it's probably not going to be good...
empty vessel
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So avoiding economic "tailspins" is your understanding of a healthy society? Get bent, saboteur.
okay!
No but putting people out of work sure as hell won't help it.
Devolution
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Funding for WIC, Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and eventually food stamps would indeed tailspin our country into another recession.
Not to mention the 800,000 people who won't get a paycheck causing a cascade effect of all the businesses that they venture to.
makingmusic476
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That made me laugh way more than it should've.
smokeandmirrors
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Non-essential who still require a fucking paycheck to live?. The same ones who still spend money at businesses, for food, clothing, etc. What about the non-essential government contracts that other businesses require to function?
EV said it more eloquently than I could have.
Devolution
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So they sit on their ass even harder and still make 6 figures?
I found the real Welfare Queens.
I found the real Welfare Queens.
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