Posted on 10/18/2013 9:10:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek
The government shutdown, by one estimate, sucked $24 billion out of the American economy in just two weeks. How about we send the bill to the Tea Party?
According to Time magazine, the shutdown cost:
About $3.1 billion in lost government services, according to the research firm HIS.
$152 million per day in lost travel spending, according to the U.S. Travel Association.
$76 million per day lost because of National Parks being shut down, according to the National Park Service.
$217 million per day in lost federal and contractor wages in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area alone
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.mlive.com ...
Correct address is as follows:
Tea Party USA
Chicago City Hall, Fifth Floor
Chicago, IL 60601-0001
attn: Rham 'Right-Wing' Emanuel
Though if you discount the famines and hundred million dead, the numbers might look better. [stoo-pid moonbat leftists]
C51:
Yeah, I knew dat.
Youse guys might tink I’m behind da times but I was usin Cabrini Green as a “foil” in muh respontz.
Get it? I tawt tzo!
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