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Capitol a ghost town as reality of government shutdown sets in
NBC Politics ^ | October 2, 2013 | Kasie Hunt

Posted on 10/02/2013 3:21:43 AM PDT by Biggirl

In shutting down the government, members of Congress have turned their own U.S. Capitol complex into a ghost town running on a skeleton crew. There aren't any tourists milling through the Capitol rotunda. Fewer police officers are working, so many entrances are closed. Up to two-thirds of each office's staff is at home, forced to shut off their BlackBerries. And many of the usual comforts of a lawmaker's day job have vanished.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: capitol; govtshutdown; shutdown; washington; washingtondc
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1 posted on 10/02/2013 3:21:44 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

That’s fitting. It’s almost Halloween. Unleash the ghosts.


2 posted on 10/02/2013 3:24:11 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My CAPS work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Biggirl

Seems like the good news just keeps on coming...


3 posted on 10/02/2013 3:25:04 AM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: Biggirl
Another day home for me. At least I get to shuttle the grandkids to school and take that burden off my overworked daughter, who's working two jobs and going to school. :-)

Helps me take my mind off the fact I ain't gettin' paid...

4 posted on 10/02/2013 3:25:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Biggirl

My guess is that the throngs or so Beltway contractors who live off the government are also furloughed if they are not working on contracts that are not already funded. Maybe some of the funded ones, too.

A lot of these are support to government employees/agencies, but with the furloughs affecting the government employees, my experience in the past has been that the government employees shed contract employees first so they don’t get furloughed...


5 posted on 10/02/2013 3:30:12 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Biggirl

“I will add, as a fifth circumstance in the situation of the House of Representatives, restraining them from oppressive measures,
that they can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together.
It creates between them that communion of interests and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples;
but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.
If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves
and a particular class of the society?
I answer: the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant
and manly spirit which actuates the people of America — a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.
“If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people,
the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.”
[James Madison, THE FEDERALIST, No. 57]


6 posted on 10/02/2013 3:30:14 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Biggirl
In shutting down the government, members of Congress have turned their own U.S. Capitol complex into a ghost town running on a skeleton crew.

How the Founders intended it should be!
7 posted on 10/02/2013 3:30:20 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Post of The Day!


8 posted on 10/02/2013 3:31:16 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Biggirl

Interesting quote from the article:

“It’s a self-sustaining, village-type ecosystem that supports the work of the legislative branch”

Which tells me that the author of the article hasn’t a clue. The Cancer that is our “Gubmint” is a Parasite, not an “Ecosystem”. Morons!


9 posted on 10/02/2013 3:32:50 AM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: Biggirl

The top four US counties for income are Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Howard.

It may take a while to straighten all this out.


10 posted on 10/02/2013 3:32:50 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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if this continues, Friday night would be a great time to take the family out for dinner in DC..


11 posted on 10/02/2013 3:33:36 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

As far as I’m concerned, it can stay like this for the next 3.5 years, or even for good.


12 posted on 10/02/2013 3:51:17 AM PDT by CommieCutter
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Box lunches instead of the usual buffet for the ‘RATS at their caucus meeting. Why any taxpayer-funded food at all? The Founders went to taverns and paid for their fare. Keep the scum hungry; shortens their plotting sessions.


13 posted on 10/02/2013 3:54:33 AM PDT by twister881
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To: chrisser

The best thing that could happen is they never come to an agreement.


14 posted on 10/02/2013 3:59:14 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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The best thing that could happen is they never come to an agreement.

What if the government held a shutdown, and no one noticed?

This is what scares the crap out of the communists, and why they've turned the hysteria to 11.

But even the media hysteria will work in our favor, as long as we hold the line, since the Rats' credibility will be diminished even more.

15 posted on 10/02/2013 4:01:57 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: twister881

Because they do not want to mingle with the common folks.


16 posted on 10/02/2013 4:04:48 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: COBOL2Java
Helps me take my mind off the fact I ain't gettin' paid...

But fear not, just think of all that back pay you'll get after your vacation; that is, if you're a government employee.

17 posted on 10/02/2013 4:06:42 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: Biggirl

Government Golf Courses still open.


18 posted on 10/02/2013 4:17:12 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Biggirl

MSM is still invested int pushing this as a bad thing


19 posted on 10/02/2013 4:22:43 AM PDT by stanne
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