This is like 2008 in reverse. In the 2008 era, almost everyone in the country was hurt while the DC crowd felt zero impact. Well, turnaround is fair play.
A few things like air traffic control and enforcement agents not working bothers me for sure, but most of the estimated 800K non essential employees are bureaucrats we will not miss. Sorry if some director of furniture realignment has to answer his own phone or type a memo.
Lastly, this is not a total government shutdown, it affects only those not funded so I do not see why this has become the doomsday scenario. A problem yes, a disaster not hardly.
I guessn them folks actually FLYING the planes will have to turn OFF the autopilot and FLY the things!