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    Looks like the good ol' 114th is gonna go out with its signature move.
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    • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Looks like the good ol' 114th is gonna go out with its signature move.
      What if they shut down the government and nobody cared?
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        Originally posted by joecct View Post
        What if they shut down the government and nobody cared?
        Ted Cruz already tried this. Do you guys never take notes?
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        • Originally posted by bronconick View Post
          Ted Cruz already tried this. Do you guys never take notes?
          17% (or something like that) of the Government actually stopped functioning. That's not a shutdown.
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            Originally posted by joecct View Post
            17% (or something like that) of the Government actually stopped functioning. That's not a shutdown.
            I had to take PTO and I didn't get paid back. That's a good enough shutdown for me.
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              Originally posted by joecct View Post
              17% (or something like that) of the Government actually stopped functioning. That's not a shutdown.

              Well, 17% sucked $24 billion out of the economy. I'm not interested in seeing what happens when 100% disappears.
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              • Originally posted by bronconick View Post
                Well, 17% sucked $24 billion out of the economy. I'm not interested in seeing what happens when 100% disappears.
                Well, let's start with my job: If Customs and Border Protection shuts down, then all international shipping has to shut down because there's no one to approve General Declarations for export and no one to inspect and release imports. So that's a few billion there...
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                  Originally posted by Jimjamesak View Post
                  Well, let's start with my job: If Customs and Border Protection shuts down, then all international shipping has to shut down because there's no one to approve General Declarations for export and no one to inspect and release imports. So that's a few billion there...
                  Customs and Border Protection never shuts down during a government shutdown. Here's the 2013 list of departments, for which those tasks deemed necessary for the function of the country continue to operate.
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                  • Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                    Customs and Border Protection never shuts down during a government shutdown. Here's the 2013 list of departments, for which those tasks deemed necessary for the function of the country continue to operate.
                    I'm aware of that. Bronconick was merely stating if there was an actual 100% shutdown of the Government. I assumed that to mean everything shutting down.
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                      Originally posted by Jimjamesak View Post
                      I'm aware of that. Bronconick was merely stating if there was an actual 100% shutdown of the Government. I assumed that to mean everything shutting down.
                      If 100% of the government was shutdown, who would stop the ships from coming into the harbor? Who would stop the dockworkers from unloading the cargo?
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                        Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                        If 100% of the government was shutdown, who would stop the ships from coming into the harbor? Who would stop the dockworkers from unloading the cargo?
                        Probably the Unions, they would stand behind the locked out govt workers.
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                          Originally posted by walrus View Post
                          Probably the Unions, they would stand behind the locked out govt workers.
                          Aren't most dockworkers union members, too?
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                          • Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                            Aren't most dockworkers union members, too?
                            Yeah that's why they wouldn't work.
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                              The funny thing is, if the federal government was out of commission for any extended length of time, it's the red portions of the country that would be hurt the most. Those positive balance of payments don't make themselves. The blue states are self-sufficient. We'll be fine. The red states, without federal welfare, are three meals away from anarchy.
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                              • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                                The funny thing is, if the federal government was out of commission for any extended length of time, it's the red portions of the country that would be hurt the most. Those positive balance of payments don't make themselves. The blue states are self-sufficient. We'll be fine. The red states, without federal welfare, are three meals away from anarchy.
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