Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Shutdown Date:   12/13/2018 11:17:40 AM

I think if it was shut down for more than a few days, you would miss it.  You would not be able to get help with social security and medicare, companies would have to shut down new marketing and development efforts that they want to do with foreign companies, and already screwed veterans would get any help at all from the VA.  Veteran healthcare facilities would shut down too.   No new benefit claims from veterans would not be processeed.  No new claims for SS and Medicare would be processed.  Quaterly tax payments would not be processed.  Government spending would shut down.  You and I might not notice immediately, but there are segments of our socieity that would be immediately affected.  

I agree that maybe Congress should have a few months of no pay, just to impress upon them what their decisions render.  Of course, if they have been there any length of time, they are already millionaires, so they might not notice.