Official Government Shutdown 2023 Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

They could have done an extension or CR at any time. The Republican crazies are against it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

I'd prefer a shut down too. 10-14 days would be nice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

I'd prefer a shut down too. 10-14 days would be nice.

When I see people comment something like this - wishing for an extended vacation - I hope the shutdown goes on for months and drains your emergency funds.

Do you not realize there are contractors out here who will not be paid or get back pay? There are people with no safety nets who are terrified of surviving even a 7 day shutdown??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

I'd prefer a shut down too. 10-14 days would be nice.

When I see people comment something like this - wishing for an extended vacation - I hope the shutdown goes on for months and drains your emergency funds.

Do you not realize there are contractors out here who will not be paid or get back pay? There are people with no safety nets who are terrified of surviving even a 7 day shutdown??

Stop fear-mongering. Contractors can re-allocate resources elsewhere for those specific contracts that prohibit work. Everyone will get a paycheck on 10/6 for the work performed. If it's longer, there will be back-pay. It's not the end of the world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

I'd prefer a shut down too. 10-14 days would be nice.

When I see people comment something like this - wishing for an extended vacation - I hope the shutdown goes on for months and drains your emergency funds.

Do you not realize there are contractors out here who will not be paid or get back pay? There are people with no safety nets who are terrified of surviving even a 7 day shutdown??

There are also people that are fired and applying for jobs every day and doing their best. Sorry for the one week inconvenience before re-joining a federal job with benefits and protections.

#PrivilegeCheck

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Anonymous wrote:This will end when GPS is hours from crashing.

Not quite how it works, but yeah when they turn off civilian GPS and every Uber driver halts, good times.

GPS is a Federal service.

GPS IS USED WORLDWIDE AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S OWNED BY THE US GOVERNMENT IT WILL NOT BE SHUT OFF IN A SHUTDOWN.

EVERY WORLD LEADER WOULD COME DOWN HARD ON THE US.

I can't get anywhere without out and like to map my runs so don't want GPS shut down. But it would be nice if all those that hate the federal government and think it does nothing understood where the basic services they rely on daily come from.

Read up thread about how during a previous shutdown we were very close to losing gps functionality.

Stop with the disinformation. GPS cannot ever be turned off unless we're in WWIII and the enemy is using it against us. Every country in the world uses it and there would be serious geopolitical flack coming to the US if the federal government stopped it.

I mean, I understand there are a few trolls on this thread: you and the other idiot who keeps thinking there won't be a shutdown, but come on. Neither of you are remotely credible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

I'd prefer a shut down too. 10-14 days would be nice.

When I see people comment something like this - wishing for an extended vacation - I hope the shutdown goes on for months and drains your emergency funds.

Do you not realize there are contractors out here who will not be paid or get back pay? There are people with no safety nets who are terrified of surviving even a 7 day shutdown??

Stop fear-mongering. Contractors can re-allocate resources elsewhere for those specific contracts that prohibit work. Everyone will get a paycheck on 10/6 for the work performed. If it's longer, there will be back-pay. It's not the end of the world.

Contractors don’t get back pay. Yes, firms can reallocate staff but only for a finite period of time and many contractors are furloughed right away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This will end when GPS is hours from crashing.

Not quite how it works, but yeah when they turn off civilian GPS and every Uber driver halts, good times.

GPS is a Federal service.

GPS IS USED WORLDWIDE AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S OWNED BY THE US GOVERNMENT IT WILL NOT BE SHUT OFF IN A SHUTDOWN.

EVERY WORLD LEADER WOULD COME DOWN HARD ON THE US.

I can't get anywhere without out and like to map my runs so don't want GPS shut down. But it would be nice if all those that hate the federal government and think it does nothing understood where the basic services they rely on daily come from.

Read up thread about how during a previous shutdown we were very close to losing gps functionality.

Stop with the disinformation. GPS cannot ever be turned off unless we're in WWIII and the enemy is using it against us. Every country in the world uses it and there would be serious geopolitical flack coming to the US if the federal government stopped it.

I mean, I understand there are a few trolls on this thread: you and the other idiot who keeps thinking there won't be a shutdown, but come on. Neither of you are remotely credible.

I don't know anything about GPS, but I know that things got very serious during the last shutdown. Just because it would be bad if it broke, doesn’t mean politicians will step in to fix it.

You are looking at this very foolish shutdown and thinking "OK, they'll let x and y break, but surely not z ..." but if they are fine with x and y, I don't feel great about z.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

You are worried that the government will be funded and operating? Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With McCarthy's new announcement of a CR, are the odds now more like 50-50 of government being open on Monday?

I’d say more likely than not it’ll be open by Tuesday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

You are worried that the government will be funded and operating? Why?

Not OP. Because then in 10 days we are doing this all over again and wasting days upon days doing shutdown prep again, ad naseum. So maybe it would just better to have wasted the days this week to do all this crap, have them shut down and figure it out rather than doing it every 10 days with 14 day CRs going forward.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

You are worried that the government will be funded and operating? Why?

Not OP. Because then in 10 days we are doing this all over again and wasting days upon days doing shutdown prep again, ad naseum. So maybe it would just better to have wasted the days this week to do all this crap, have them shut down and figure it out rather than doing it every 10 days with 14 day CRs going forward.

I see. That doesn’t sound unreasonable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm worried now they're going to do a last-minute 14 day extension and back to work Monday morning.

I'd prefer a shut down too. 10-14 days would be nice.

When I see people comment something like this - wishing for an extended vacation - I hope the shutdown goes on for months and drains your emergency funds.

Do you not realize there are contractors out here who will not be paid or get back pay? There are people with no safety nets who are terrified of surviving even a 7 day shutdown??

Don’t feed the trolls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This will end when GPS is hours from crashing.

Not quite how it works, but yeah when they turn off civilian GPS and every Uber driver halts, good times.

GPS is a Federal service.

GPS IS USED WORLDWIDE AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S OWNED BY THE US GOVERNMENT IT WILL NOT BE SHUT OFF IN A SHUTDOWN.

EVERY WORLD LEADER WOULD COME DOWN HARD ON THE US.

I can't get anywhere without out and like to map my runs so don't want GPS shut down. But it would be nice if all those that hate the federal government and think it does nothing understood where the basic services they rely on daily come from.

Read up thread about how during a previous shutdown we were very close to losing gps functionality.

Stop with the disinformation. GPS cannot ever be turned off unless we're in WWIII and the enemy is using it against us. Every country in the world uses it and there would be serious geopolitical flack coming to the US if the federal government stopped it.

I mean, I understand there are a few trolls on this thread: you and the other idiot who keeps thinking there won't be a shutdown, but come on. Neither of you are remotely credible.

I don't know anything about GPS, but I know that things got very serious during the last shutdown. Just because it would be bad if it broke, doesn’t mean politicians will step in to fix it.

You are looking at this very foolish shutdown and thinking "OK, they'll let x and y break, but surely not z ..." but if they are fine with x and y, I don't feel great about z.

GPS is considered a security, military and diplomatic asset. There is just no way. It's one of those things that aren't up for debate during shutdowns. If you're this stupid, you'll just have to live through tons of shutdowns and observe that at no time is the military left unprepared, at no time do intelligence services go down, at no time do we lose GPS. You might as well be worrying that our nuclear systems are on snooze...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With McCarthy's new announcement of a CR, are the odds now more like 50-50 of government being open on Monday?

I’d say more likely than not it’ll be open by Tuesday.

Where are you seeing this?