I hope the republicans have the spine to force the votes on the federal budget and stop all these “continuing resolutions.” We don’t have the money and magically printing more isn’t an answer…
and I’m sure that if/when the feds decide to go to “digital currency,” inflation will magically disappear, homelessness will be solved, all the wars we are funding will end, and free everything for everyone utopia will finally appear…
No one cares anymore. Not near the story is used to be. Media has lost so much power pushing all that fake news about for years now, I doubt anyone would notice the shut down…
media are making it sound like this possible shutdown is something new.
It really isn’t, it’s SOP when the house is run by the GOP.
Did the sky fall and/or the world end and /or the US dissolve during any other US government shutdown?
Been here so many times before. Of course the media are going to hype it up.
Pols love it as well, playing to the cameras, trying for that one zinger soundbite.
Boring and predictable.
Highlighting the fact that we have to continuously raise the debt ceiling because we can’t stop printing money? Yeah, it should be SOP.
Can’t wait for the next credit downgrade.
The “shutdown” isn’t really much of a shutdown.
I’ve heard many times over the years that about 80 percent of the government keeps running during the “shutdowns”. 
The sky is falling the sky is falling run for your lives! 
The last shut down cost our economy $11B.
Weird to take action that costs us money as a way to protest us spending too much money.
nothing says “We support our border patrols and want a robust souther border” more than not paying the patrolmen.
Blamed specifically on the White House … again 
Shouldn’t we dispense with this nansy-pansy type of “partial” shutdown bull crap.
If Congress is going to shutdown the government than they should be required to actually shut it down. None of this “essential” work force bull shyte.
Shut it down and make it painful so that Congress will really hear from constituents.
Government workers (all of them) are sent home with no back pay for time missed. This includes EVERYONE.
Congressional staff is sent home. The only ones allowed to work in the empty Capital Building are the actual members of Congress because under the Constitution their compensation cannot be reduced during their term of office so they are the only ones getting paid. Of course they can’t get their checks because there wouldn’t be any payroll clerks on the job.
If a shutdown was a real shut down Congress would think twice before ignoring their responsibilities and pulling political stunts.
WW
Could not agree more. If you allow “essential” business then all you are doing is proving how bloated government is. Plus I suspect “essential” is a term interpreted very broadly.
The problem is that we’ve softened government shutdowns so they don’t hurt.
Bull.
Government shutdowns should hurt and hurt badly. I’m not talking about “investors” and the “elites”. They should hurt the voters in meaningful ways.
Cause I guarantee you, if it hurts, and I mean really hurts it will only happen once. And the resulting political bloodbath with show politicians they better actually do their job.
WW
What is coming is not a government shutdown.
It’s a government slow down.
WW
It’s basically forcing people to work without pay.
yeah but that is not what is happening or what has happened in the past. if it was, they would not have wasted 6 weeks on vacation doing nothing, nor would it explain why a majority of the last 5 shutdowns occurred when the GOP controlled both houses of congress and the white house…
the GOP just suck at doing their one job.
We should highlight this by taking action that raises the debt.
