How is the gov. shutdown affecting you specifically?

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  • kelleygi
    kelleygi Posts: 650 Member
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    "It's YOUR fault!"
    "NO! It's YOURS!!"
    "NO! YOURS!!"

    Clean house, start all over, muzzle media........
  • sloth3toes
    sloth3toes Posts: 2,212 Member
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    For me, although I am not currently being furloughed, I am still paying the price. I am having to basically work for free until after the budget is signed and then they are supposed to back pay us... Sure hope so, but on top of that, I lost someone very near and dear to me this week and in order for me to go to their funeral tomorrow, I will be forced to take "leave without pay" even though I have plenty of leave on the books to cover and I will NOT be reimbursed for that. Obviously with not getting paid but having to work none-the-less, my family is paying the price as well both financially and emotionally.

    How are you directly affected by the shutdown?

    http://youtu.be/sx2scvIFGjE

    If you haven't seen this, it might help to cheer you up. I really feel for anyone in the military who is getting scr#wed by this... But, as a Canadian, it's not affecting me specifically, and for that, I'm thankful. I dunno if it might affect border crossings?
  • Sedna_51
    Sedna_51 Posts: 277 Member
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    I can finally afford decent insurance thank God!

    /highfive!! I have a chronic medical condition (kidney transplant), and come January I won't be able to be refused coverage because of it!! AWESOME. And great for taxpayers too, because if an insurer refuses to help me pay for my $2500 a month medicine, then I (a) lose my kidney, (b) become substantially less able to work and support myself, and (c) go back on Medicare-funded dialysis, which costs $75,000 a month. Or (d) die.
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
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    Not affecting me personally, but I do have friends who are now out of work for the time being.
  • jim9097
    jim9097 Posts: 341 Member
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    It hasn't affected me one iota.

    This is not the first time, nor the second nor the fifth. Most of this (not all, granted) is media hype.

    It really is not media hype. Actually the problem is the media has no real idea what is going on. They have no idea what many of us do, and they have no idea what the long term effect of this will be. Quit frankly, you may never notice anything in your life. But then again you might and not even now why it did happen. The media is either highly misinformed or purposely misleading on what is really happening here.
  • Deipneus
    Deipneus Posts: 1,862 Member
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    How are you directly affected by the shutdown?
    To be a shutdown, wouldn't they actually have to "shut down"?
  • Tatonka_usn
    Tatonka_usn Posts: 433 Member
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    Hmmm....let's see. Being a slimy government parasite, who lives high on the hog, this furlough is really going to crimp my upscale style. You know, feeding my kids and paying my mortgage, so the asshats in Congress can bicker and pass the buck. Oh, yeah, almost forgot, as a Reservist I won't be able to drill this weekend, which knocks out my only OTHER source of income. But that's ok....who needs money anyway??? :grumble: :noway:
  • Tatonka_usn
    Tatonka_usn Posts: 433 Member
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    It hasn't affected me one iota.

    This is not the first time, nor the second nor the fifth. Most of this (not all, granted) is media hype.

    It really is not media hype. Actually the problem is the media has no real idea what is going on. They have no idea what many of us do, and they have no idea what the long term effect of this will be. Quit frankly, you may never notice anything in your life. But then again you might and not even now why it did happen. The media is either highly misinformed or purposely misleading on what is really happening here.

    ^^^^ THIS! :grumble:
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
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    You'd think it would be moving faster since NSA isnt watching the porn you watch now

    Actually the NSA did not get shut down at all.


    Don't ruin the dream for her

    crushed
  • TX_Thundercat
    TX_Thundercat Posts: 2,437 Member
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    I have no idea when I'm getting paid again. Other than that, everything is peachy!
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
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    I'm having to tell a lot of mothers with hungry babies to go to the food banks for baby formula because we can't help them with WIC. This blows hairy monkey balls.

    OOOO this makes me so mad WIC is defunded but the two agencies NSA and TSA which are an abomination of our constitutional rights are still up and running. And to add to my anger sweden gets a year off for maternity and we get jack squat wholly hell stupid country.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
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    I get to laugh at all the funny shutdown memes.

    government-shutdown_o_2277353.jpg


    And I hate the government. I've been hoping for a shutdown for a long time, but this isn't even one really....
  • doug_pierce
    doug_pierce Posts: 255
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    It is making my commute a little easier.
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
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    I know it is already putting a damper on the local businesses here as well because people cannot afford to go out to eat, or buy things that are not 100% necessity,especially when we have no idea how long this BS is going to drag out. I am not for either side specifically, I just want them to come up with something that is the best for the American people. You would think that is not asking too much!
  • zeebruhgirl
    zeebruhgirl Posts: 493 Member
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    I was supposed to go hiking :[
  • WillLift4Tats
    WillLift4Tats Posts: 1,699 Member
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    It doesn't affect me at all. Except that is p*sses me off that we have a bunch of idiots in Congress with the schoolyard attitude that makes them want to disagree with each other over every thing.

    Yes I agree and in my PERSONAL opinion, they should all be impeached starting at the top. But let's not get into that.

    For doing their job?

    Congressmen are supposed to represent the people that elected them. If they ran and won on a platform that says their constituents want them to represent their issues and it results in a standoff, then they are doing their job. If they are being told in letters and phone calls by their constituents that they need to stand their ground, then they need to do that.

    Disagree. Their job is to come to a compromise and find a solution. Deciding to throw a fit and not work while still getting paid does not equate to "doing their job".

    Edit to say: It hasn't affected our family yet, but as my husband is a veteran with disabilities, we are watching our funds closely and hope we won't have to dip into savings because of this nonsense.
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
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    It doesn't affect me at all. Except that is p*sses me off that we have a bunch of idiots in Congress with the schoolyard attitude that makes them want to disagree with each other over every thing.

    Yes I agree and in my PERSONAL opinion, they should all be impeached starting at the top. But let's not get into that.

    For doing their job?

    Congressmen are supposed to represent the people that elected them. If they ran and won on a platform that says their constituents want them to represent their issues and it results in a standoff, then they are doing their job. If they are being told in letters and phone calls by their constituents that they need to stand their ground, then they need to do that.

    Disagree. Their job is to come to a compromise and find a solution. Deciding to throw a fit and not work while still getting paid does not equate to "doing their job".

    Thank you.... this is exactly right!
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
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    IBTL....

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  • ladyfox1979
    ladyfox1979 Posts: 405 Member
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    Damn it!
  • ladyfox1979
    ladyfox1979 Posts: 405 Member
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    I can finally take a break from paying taxes for those on welfare that abuses it.:devil:
    No, Congress is still getting paid.

    Ugh I forgot about them morons.

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