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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even the media is now bored with this story. First missed paycheck, and very little reporting. All the coverage is now about the kidnapped girl in Wisconsin and winter weather, and the markets have had their best January start in years. Looks like there is very little pressure for this to end anytime soon. [/quote]

The shutdown is obviously not going to end today.

The media has tried, with reports of FAA not inspecting planes, HUD evicting poor people, FDA not inspecting food, Joshua Trees being cut down, missed paychecks, sad federal employees and contractors.  So far it hasn't worked.

They'll try again over the weekend and next week.  What even more dire, hitherto unimagined, catastrophes will strike?[/quote]

The truth is, for most ordinary Americans and those outside the DMV, there is very little impact or sense of urgency. Of course there are federal workers in other places, like the TSA, et cetera, but most Americans have little daily interaction with those folks. Ending the shutdown has proven not to be a political necessity for either party, and the longer it drags on, the harder it will be for either party to concede defeat and end it. What a mess. [/quote]

What are you talking about? This is trickle down. If someone can't make rent, that effects landlords. 
Can't afford go dinners - local restaurants
Childcare providers, kids extra circularize activities...
Long term this is a disaster for our economy. Just more mess for the Democrats to clean up once Trump leaves.

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If shutting down the government is a "disaster" it means only one thing: the government is TOO BIG.  Shutting it down should not cause a catastrophe.[/quote]

That's idiotic.  Proponents of small government believe that the government should only perform essential functions that the free market can't provide/perform.  If the shutdown is a disaster, it means that the government is doing just that - performing essential functions that the free market can't provide.  [/quote]

Not exactly.  Surely the free market could provide nongovt services such as park clean up, no?  Surely the government is not the only entity that could provide airport security, right?  It’s just that government has chosen to operate in these areas.  I would oppose privatizing anything that government is currently doing.  But we need to be a bit more precise here.[/quote]

Not sure how well private contractors would do with airport security during a shutdown.  I know before W we had private contractors as airport security.  I remember them being  low paid foreign nationals.[/quote]

With the exact same record, and $11 per segment cheaper[/quote]

Letting the 9-11 terrorists through is the same record as the TSA?  [/quote]

TSA wouldn't have prevented 9/11.[/quote]

I’d really like to borrow your alternate universe viewing machine.[/quote]

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