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The 'doomsday' scenario: Here's what happens if the shutdown drags on
NBC ^ | 10 JUL 19 | By Dareh Gregorian

Posted on 01/10/2019 9:05:37 AM PST by DCBryan1

The country would face an economic hellscape if the government shutdown lasts "months or even years," as the president has suggested it might, experts tell NBC News.

The doomsday scenario might be unlikely — the longest the federal government has ever shut down is 21 days, a record that will fall if the current closure lasts until Saturday — but it is chilling.

"We'll be in no man's land," Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, told NBC News.

If the worst were to happen, experts say the devastating impact would be widespread:

•38 million low-income Americans lose food stamps
•6 million face an uncertain timetable for collecting tax refunds
•2 million without rental assistance and facing possible eviction
•800,000 paycheck-less federal employees plunged into dire financial straits
•Shuttered parks and museums while overstressed airports cause tourism to tank
•Federal court system slows to a crawl
•Disaster relief money doesn't get to storm-ravaged areas •Lapsed FDA and EPA inspections lead to dangerous outbreaks
•Private companies looking to go public are stuck in limbo
•Stock market plummets

The end isn't near — yet. But if the standoff persists

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nbc; ohhhnoooz; prepper; shutdown; skyisfalling
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To: DCBryan1

Hi guy. I hope you are doing well.

If I don’t get my SS check, so be it. We will survive.

MAGA!

5.56mm


21 posted on 01/10/2019 9:13:14 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Mariner
Conservatives should WELCOME at least 90% on that list.

No FDA inspection of meat.

Air Traffic controllers start looking for other work causing airport closures.

Federal Prison workers go unpaid including guards that are already understaffed and have to look for other work.

We're not talking about rangers going unpaid so Yogi and BooBoo can steal picnic baskets, the Fed is ensnarled everywhere in the economy and it will crash.

22 posted on 01/10/2019 9:13:14 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: DCBryan1
No more freebies?

Maybe the Caravans will all go somewhere else, then...

23 posted on 01/10/2019 9:13:23 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: nikos1121

Right! And opening the gov’mint back up can be a part of his sales pitch. Any way this goes, Schumer and Pelosi are toast and Trump wins. Too bad the pubs are too stupid to capitalize on it...


24 posted on 01/10/2019 9:14:04 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: DCBryan1

38 million low-income Americans lose food stamps - DEM VOTERS

•6 million face an uncertain timetable for collecting tax refunds - MIXTURE BUT NOT THAT BIG A DEAL

•2 million without rental assistance and facing possible eviction — DEM VOTERS

•800,000 paycheck-less federal employees plunged into dire financial straits- DEM VOTERS

•Shuttered parks and museums while overstressed airports cause tourism to tank - REP VOTERS BUT SMALL POTATOES

•Federal court system slows to a crawl - MOSTLY DEMS PUSHING LEFTY AGENDA

•Disaster relief money doesn’t get to storm-ravaged areas -MIXTURE - NOT HUGE NUMBERS

•Lapsed FDA and EPA inspections lead to dangerous outbreaks DEMS CARE/ REPS DONT
•Private companies looking to go public are stuck in limbo - SMALL POTATOES

•Stock market plummets - NOT GOING TO HAPPEN

Looks like a Huge Republican Victory


25 posted on 01/10/2019 9:14:15 AM PST by BRL
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To: nikos1121
If Trump can build his wall via emergency, then there really is no reason to keep the gov’t shutdown.

And when the EO does come, can you imagine the reaction from the affected Dem base when the idiot Dem leadership tries to sue over it?

26 posted on 01/10/2019 9:15:07 AM PST by MissNomer
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To: DCBryan1

Funny, most items on that list are not even delegated to the federal government by the constitution. In fact, the only one specifically empowered is the federal court system. You might stretch it a bit to include national parks as part of the Interior Dept, but even there it’s bloated way out of control.


27 posted on 01/10/2019 9:15:45 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: DCBryan1

28 posted on 01/10/2019 9:17:00 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: DCBryan1

This is why they want nationalized health “care”. Once they get that to hang over everyone’s head, there will never be a government shutdown...or budget.


29 posted on 01/10/2019 9:18:04 AM PST by Phillyred
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To: M Kehoe

If I don’t get care @ VA Haley, I’ll use Medicare. If not.
Then I’ll pay for it myself.

Build the wall...at my little part of the expense.

Go Trump!

5.56mm


30 posted on 01/10/2019 9:18:18 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: DCBryan1

The 'doomsday' scenario: Here's what happens if the shutdown drags on

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?

Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.

Dr. Raymond Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...

Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!

Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

31 posted on 01/10/2019 9:19:04 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: DCBryan1
Federal court system slows to a crawl

And that is different than last month how?
32 posted on 01/10/2019 9:19:22 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: DCBryan1

Sounds like a plan.


33 posted on 01/10/2019 9:19:44 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: ZOOKER

Canada will be paying for the wall soon to keep these freeloaders from migrating there. They sure wanted us to let them in.


34 posted on 01/10/2019 9:19:52 AM PST by Phillyred
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To: DCBryan1

Doomsday! The world is ending.
We’re all going to die!
Planets will crash into the earth!
The oceans will rise!
The sun will go out!
The moon will plunge into the ocean!

Alien creatures will attack the earth!
Diseases will eliminate mankind!


35 posted on 01/10/2019 9:20:36 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: 11th_VA

We need to post the Eastern border of Crapafornia and “deal” with any librats attempting to flee!


36 posted on 01/10/2019 9:20:47 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: DCBryan1

Ha ha ha. Let’s go.


37 posted on 01/10/2019 9:20:52 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: DCBryan1
As I was reading the list of calamities about to befall us, I forgot what article I was reading and I had to go back and see if it was a "government shutdown" article or a "climate change" article.

Both situations are just about a severe according to the left.

38 posted on 01/10/2019 9:21:12 AM PST by skimbell
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To: Snickering Hound
Air Traffic controllers start looking for other work causing airport closures.

When Reagan fired ALL the striking ATC employees, NO airports closed.
39 posted on 01/10/2019 9:22:49 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: DCBryan1

Dogs and cats, laying together...MASS HYSTERIA!


40 posted on 01/10/2019 9:23:28 AM PST by steve8714
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