Government Shutdown

[Sean88gt]

Shutdowns are expensive..

Opposed to the continued operation on borrowed money?

[Broncojohnny]

LAWD LAWD LAWD I may not gets my check this month!

[Sgt Beavis]

Just to fill you in on a small tidbit..

My company has me working on a government project right now. If the shutdown happens, we keep working. However, our work will be highly curtailed due to the lack of communication with the government employees that are furloughed.

But we will keep billing 100% of our contract. The deadlines will likely be pushed back due to the shutdown slowing us down.

So, the shutdown will end up costing the government a few million bucks more on this one contract...

Now just think of how many contracts are out there in the same boat.

Shutdowns are expensive..

[Sean88gt]

Shut this motherfucker down. I stocked up on Ammo and other essentials.

Me too. At least ammo. I'll take food. My neighbors are more concerned about yard of the month than anything else.

[Venom]

Shut this motherfucker down. I stocked up on Ammo and other essentials.

[Jimbo]

Obama is playing hardball. He has said that the emergency measures to pay troops (house passed a $12B bill to pay troops) would be vetoed.

He really is a sorry bucket of homeless shit.

That is one of the most pathetic things I have ever heard. Holding military pay hostage in the event of a shutdown is even worse than Dems deciding not to pass budget resolution for the first time in over 35 years so they can spend billions freely, then turning around and blaming everyone else for not wanting to continue spending.

[Sean88gt]

Obama is playing hardball. He has said that the emergency measures to pay troops (house passed a $12B bill to pay troops) would be vetoed.

He really is a sorry bucket of homeless shit.

[Jimbo]

Wow, the sound bites I'm hearing are ridiculous.

"According to a reporter from the Washington Examiner, Schumer told his fellow Democrats to make sure and tell the press that the GOP is refusing to negotiate, and he told his colleagues they needed to label the GOP spending cuts as “extreme.”

" the budget bill would result in the deaths of at least 70,000 children who depend on American food and health assistance around the world."

"Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) said today that the new Republicans elected to the House of Representatives last November came to Congress "to kill women." She also likened Republican efforts to prohibit federal funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest or where the life of the mother is endangered to actions taken by Nazis."

I wouldn't think that compared to the $3.7 trillion current budget, $ 61 billion would be so villified. Heck it would take a ton more cuts just to get back to the bloated spending of just two years ago.

Harry Reid is apparently saying everything from republicans want to hurt children, hurt cowboy poets, to..... they don't want clean water.

Obama announced: “J.T. said if he could speak directly to all of us in Washington, he'd tell us that all of this political grandstanding has effects as it trickles down to normal, everyday Americans. There is no reason why we should not be able to complete a deal, unless we've made a decision that politics is more important than folks like J.T. Henderson.”

Apparently this guy just adopted an ethiopian kid and his wife is in med school, how does he get to bitch about a delayed refund check ruining his life and the president picks it up as a talking point regarding "normal americans"?

[LANTIRN]

Nothing will happen. This shit happens all the time; one side threatens to do something the other doesn't want, they piss and moan on CNN for a few days, and then the day before the "deadline" they all come to some kind of compromise. Just like what happened a few days ago when they were going to shutdown the government.

If the Republicans shutdown the government, that means precious federally funded programs that they like, which benefit their home state, will cease to be funded. That will cost them votes. They won't let it happen. Everyone bitches about government overspending until proposed cuts affect them, then it's an "essential" service and should be left alone.

[mikeb]

Shut that bitch down!!!! It may not stop all of the spending but it'll sure help with some of it.

[Sean88gt]

Constitutional government will still function. Some entitlements and discretionary programs may get fucked but it will provide for some great ghetto videos.

[big_tiger]

How much will we save per day with the "government shutdown;" even though everyone will keep getting social security checks?

[Jimbo]

Piss on 'em. Shut it down for about a month as far as I care. At least they won't be spending money.

Yeah, thats about it. I remember not much came of it when Newt shut it down for a week because of Clinton in the 90's.

[SMEGMA STENCH]

I'll be the first to admit that I'm far too lazy to read these long winded articles you guys post up. But in the end... what would be the point? To the shutdown, I mean. Is that going to help somehow? Obviously if they aren't running then they aren't spending but... this just seems rather foolish. "We can't fix it so we give up" is the general feel I get from this.

[Broncojohnny]

Bring on the shutdown.

A shut down saves money so I am ready. If that is the only way we can get these fucktards to stop spending then I am all for it.

As for the market, everyone knows this is coming. I don't see much uncertainty but we'll see what happens.