Not everybody is alright

[cthulu2016]

750,000 American workers were just cost at least one days' worth of pay. How many days' pay remains to be seen.

And a couple of million other American workers will go to work tomorrow without knowing when they will be paid for that work.

It is a rather large dislocation of American labor to be brought about for a publicity stunt, or out of simple malice.

And if it goes much beyond a one-day wonder, a few million less people being paid is not super helpful to the general economy.

And this is on top of the sequester.

It really is something of a large deal.

[Ohio Joe]

1. Not only that but it is disgusting to be treating it as a joke

I voted to hide that shit.

[geek tragedy]

4. There are some obvious trolls showing their true and ugly

colors today.

[NYC_SKP]

2. All true. But it's worth it for ObamaCare and to shame the Tea Party.

They did this to us, and they'll pay in the end.

This battle is well worth it, and these hardships are small compared to the losses if we give in.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. and last time it cost us 2 Trillion

But they are the "frugal" ones.....yeah right

[joshcryer]

5. I agree. It is a big deal.

And it is why this sort of thing couldn't have been allowed in the middle of a deep recession.