Anyone know if the meat inspectors have been shut down?

[IdaBriggs]

Or the people fighting to discover the cures for diseases over at NIH?

I *know* the auditors and people working to hold the banks accountable aren't in today (I will tell why later this week).

Hopefully the House folks had to send their staff home. Any word on that?

Negotiating with terrorists - Obama and the Dems better not cave!

[City Lights]

1. I just heard on WGN News that some food inspections will be cut,

but meat inspections will continue.

typo edit

[Scuba]

2. EPA? Check this out ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023754988

[IdaBriggs]

3. I might throw up.

From your link:

The Environmental Protection Agency will effectively be shuttered, with 9 out of 10 employees furloughed, taking our clean air cops off the beat and leaving vulnerable Americans with almost no one to monitor pollution that could make them sick.

Maybe this was the plan all along? What are the mice doing while the cat is away?

[el_bryanto]

5. It's a nice theory but unlikely

I think this is a case where what you see (i.e. Tea Party Republicans willing to burn down the nation in order to stop Obamacare) really is what you get.

Bryant

[Scuba]

6. Also from my link ....

John Boehner wasn't working to corral his reckless caucus -- he was dining with coal executives.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. They should be because...

you can't sell meat that hasn't been inspected, so we'll all know about it when the shelves are empty.

They keep shutting down stuff like the passport office and the parks which are an inconvenience but nothing to really hit the public.

[Scuba]

7. "Nothing to really hit the public"? Oh yeah? How long can you hold your breath?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023754988

[TreasonousBastard]

9. That's stuff we know about, but won't affect many day to day...

and even if the air gets so bad we can't see across the street, much of the population that cares won't blame it on House Republicans.

As it is, a third of the population blames this mess on Obama and the Democrats, with another bunch bunch blaming both sides equally. Take food out of the supermarkets and point the blame squarely on the teabaggers to maybe the point home.

[egold2604]

8. No one will be able to buy a gun because ATF is shut down

[oldhippie]

11. Not true .....

Not every new sale requires a NICS check. Some people are exempt, like me.

[BelgianMadCow]

10. Food security is among the critical services, and isn't shut down

as reported in belgian news, fwiw.

[struggle4progress]

12. ... Food Safety and Inspection Service. Meat, poultry and egg product inspections will continue, and

87 percent of the agency’s 9,633 employees will be still on the job ...
Published September 30, 2013, 04:39 PM
A guide to the government shutdown at USDA
By: Jerry Hagstrom, Agweek

[IdaBriggs]

13. Thank you! nt