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 ...
Funny...no mention of Social Security checks.
Sure is mucho pain because the democrats don’t want border security.
The pain and riots in big blue cities will give more and more leverage to DJT...
Well, chrome “domed”? LOL!
If Trump can build his wall via emergency, then there really is no reason to keep the gov’t shutdown.
Conservatives should WELCOME at least 90% on that list.
Democrats/liberals should be terrified and mortified.
Stock market plummets.....LOL.
” but it is chilling. “ No worries, glowbull warming will take care of that.
The population in Blue Cities will doncrazy things when they get hungry ... just saying. (This is 21st century Civil War)
This is the best description of winning I could ever have hoped to imagine. This shutdown is a forcing function to get those who are leaches on society to take one of the newly created President Trump, private sector jobs and stop them from sucking off of the productive!!!
Winning!
JoMa
Domed? Like Dome and Glome Domed?
Replace furloughed government workers with illegals for ten bucks an hour.
After a few years the suicide rate in DC will go up...
The divorce rate will go up.
Drug addiction will go up...
Just like it did in the country when liberals let industry move to China... closed off coal and mining cities and created the Rust Belt for their PC nuttiness.
Force empathy on liberals... keep the government shut down... and workers replaced with illegals working under the table.
Keep it shut down please. Break the Democrats or let the hounds of hell loose. This has all got to stop NOW. I’m willing to suffer.
Let’s wait to cross the three streams until we come to them.
•6 million face an uncertain timetable for collecting tax refunds
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Settled days ago. The White House has announced tax refunds will go out.
But hey... Nice try at scare mongering there, Nothing But Crap.
NBC’s Dareh Gregorian doesn’t ‘get’ the positives... ‘awareness training’ for liberal jerks... We can save money AND teach empathy:
Replace furloughed government workers with illegals for ten bucks an hour.
After a few years the suicide rate in DC will go up...
The divorce rate will go up.
Drug addiction will go up...
Just like it did in the country when liberals let industry move to China... closed off coal and mining cities and created the Rust Belt for their PC nuttiness.
Force empathy on liberals... keep the government shut down... and workers replaced with illegals working under the table.
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