How is the gov. shutdown affecting you specifically?

So far it hasn't affected me directly but I know it's just a matter of time.

On a not-that-important note, my fiancé and I are getting married in two weeks and our wedding trip was supposed to include two park sites that will probably be shut down because of it :-/

Yeah, if this shutdown lasts two more weeks, we'll have more to worry about than closed park sites. Namely, a possible default.

I don't work for the Government but a lot of my family does and there are a few that got furloughed. I am more worried about the fact that we have such a dysfunctional government that it had to shut down and that most of my fellow Americans seem unconcerned. I think it is our apathy about our country and it's leaders that got us in this trouble to begin with.

I'm a little worried that I'll have to dip into my savings if I don't get paid. (Air Force)

All military gets paid.

ETA: From one Airman to another, thank you for your service. :-)

I have a friend who boyfried is being deployed this weekend. If we dont have a government then why do people still have to go to war?

I have a friend who boyfried is being deployed this weekend. If we dont have a government then why do people still have to go to war?

Unfortunately political unrest will still be happening overseas whether America's government is shut down or not.

I haven't been specifically affected by the shut down, other than being completely annoyed at how this damn country is being ran. I have been laid off 3 times in 3 years after holding my last long term job for 5.5 years. Corporate America doesn't give a **** about its employees any longer and small business can't afford to keep there door open. Its friggin ridiculous! Unemployment in my state is out of control and I am evidently over qualified for most jobs available. Companies would rather pay an under-qualified person working for them for less money than a competant qualified counterpart at a higher rate. *kitten* BACKWARDS!

thankfully I don't have children to pass this mess along too!

I haven't been specifically affected by the shut down, other than being completely annoyed at how this damn country is being ran. I have been laid off 3 times in 3 years after holding my last long term job for 5.5 years. Corporate America doesn't give a **** about its employees any longer and small business can't afford to keep there door open. Its friggin ridiculous! Unemployment in my state is out of control and I am evidently over qualified for most jobs available. Companies would rather pay an under-qualified person working for them for less money than a competant qualified counterpart at a higher rate. *kitten* BACKWARDS!

thankfully I don't have children to pass this mess along too!

we could change that last part.

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?

Be glad you're not in the private sector. We've been hit hard for the past 5 years. I never read how terrible it is for them though, they just hunker down and find a new job or get a new career, which many have. For some reason government workers being furloughed is cause for worldwide mourning. Maybe because it's political mourning?? As far as I can tell, the Dems won't negotiate with anything that doesn't fully fund obamacare, and the majority of the country thinks that will crash the economy. The TV man may claim otherwise but that's generally the case. Maybe move to the private sector, join the those of us whose taxes prop up this massive growing government.

Government workers pay taxes also.

...oooooon money that came from taxes that came from people working in the private sector. Taking water from one end of the pool and dumping it in the other doesn't fill the pool, especially if the bucket has holes in it.

I do not work for the government in any way and can tell you it is already started to affect even those of us that don't. It would be difficult to explain how, but basically: the company I work for receives money from their corporate office, whom receives their money from grants and/or loans and that money comes from the government. So, it has already trickled down the vine and I have been temporarily laid off until funding is available.
My husband, who is currently, luckily, still working full time could be effected if this continues and/or they really start analyzing budget and cease to fund any project they feel in unnecessary. He does construction and has had lots of federal projects lately and some coming up in the future (which could be totally removed at any time now.)