I am fine with that. Bring it on.
Understand this, however. Shutting down the Federal government without a budget or Continuing Resolution introduces a massive political issue.
In fact, no checks, period.
No Medicare. No Food Stamp EBT cards reloaded. No SS Disability checks. No TANF welfare checks. Nothing.
The one they are afraid of the most, however, is stopping the Social Security checks. When the CR was not agreed to in 2011, even the Republicans offered Obama the option of funding two things: payment on debt and Social Security checks.
Personally, if they are not going to repeal Sequestration, not going to pass any of the Appropriations bills, and not going to pass a budget, I say stop the checks and let the chaos ensue.
For too long, the Entitlement crowd has sat back and laughed as they were completely exempt from Sequestration. The mocked the cuts that affected military families. They scoffed at defense contractors losing their jobs. They jumped for joy when DoD nurses at Walter Reed and other care facilities were screwed over. They mocked civilian maintainers when they furloughed, losing 20% of their paychecks.
I say let everyone jump into the pool.
Then maybe, just maybe, we will come to a political and economic realization that our long term debt and deficit problems are not caused by discretionary spending, but by Entitlements that the political class is too cowardly to reform.