OK. So the gov't shuts down.

[babylonsister]

How long does that last? I'd like to think about 1/2 hour... Are there cooler heads left to prevail?

[Tx4obama]

1. Probably it will take a couple days for the GOP to accept the fact the Dems won't back down. n/t

[Warpy]

2. It will last only as long as the plutocrats don't miss

their own welfare checks. Once they notice their income going down, they'll pull the plug on it.

Expect Wall St. to lay a giant rotten egg tomorrow as foreign investors flee a country gone barking mad.

I hope it has the same effect the 1995 shutdown did, all the movers and shakers making it happen out of office in 2015.

[babylonsister]

3. Barking mad pretty much

defines it.

[B Calm]

4. If you are in a 401K, it's already costing you. The market

has been down for almost a week now.

[babylonsister]

5. I don't imagine that will be tolerated. nt

[Drahthaardogs]

6. Well, with the sequester it went down like this.

No one really cared until it was TSA and Air Traffic Controllers that affected "the other people", once that happened, they went back to work.

For DoD, furloughs continued until it started affecting Defense Contractors. Then they whined, and then DoD went back to work.

[Dash87]

7. It'll never happen. This is all theater.