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 ...
Hi guy. I hope you are doing well.
If I don’t get my SS check, so be it. We will survive.
MAGA!
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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.
Maybe the Caravans will all go somewhere else, then...
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...
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
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?
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.
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.
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!
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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!
Sounds like a plan.
Canada will be paying for the wall soon to keep these freeloaders from migrating there. They sure wanted us to let them in.
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!
We need to post the Eastern border of Crapafornia and “deal” with any librats attempting to flee!
Ha ha ha. Let’s go.
Both situations are just about a severe according to the left.
Dogs and cats, laying together...MASS HYSTERIA!
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