Government Shutdown

[Woodhouse]

You can't apply for any new student loans.

Yes. Any type of federal loans will not be processed during the shutdown. Including student loans.

I believe Obamacare is already in effect (since Thursday). As of now, if you don't have insurance you can go and get it. Congress can't agree on the appropriations that will keep the country running for next 6-10 weeks. So if this is over by then, we might end up right back into another shutdown.

[Velocity]

unlucky for America. You may have better tech prices but you also have guns and no medicare xD

[Observation]

Dave should run for president.

[Gοku]

unlucky for America. You may have better tech prices but you also have guns and no medicare xD

Ikr, Gotta love Australia.

[[MPGH]Ethereal]

Government shut down? Well it's not like they've been doing much for this country any Goddamn way so it's business as usual if you think about it.

[LordPankake]

Go watch Fox news more.

And here is where I stopped reading. Yes, all media is biased to some degree but Fox is up-the-butt obvious about it's bias.

[Kevin]

The military WILL continue to function

[[SMA] Paradise`]

Fuck America I need to gtfo to UK.

[carbonnade]

How nice another +1 to our great country. Wonder what other countries think of us

[Taco]

Fuck America I need to gtfo to UK.

+1 to this

[[MPGH]Hennessy]

I will fucking kill someone.

[Aborted]

Fuck America I need to gtfo to UK.

​The UK's just as shit if you didn't know.

[Euphemistic]

If the Republicans in the House are as concerned about democratic processes as they claim, then why not allow a vote on the Senate measure which would be open to Republicans and Democrats. That way the whole House would vote.

By imposing the "Hastert" rule, the Republicans are preventing a full House vote and then claiming that the process is undemocratic. Blocking a vote involving their colleagues is a version of voter suppression and disenfranchisement. It is unconscionable and a form of tyranny by the minority.

[Gοku]

Fuck America I need to gtfo to UK.

Come to Australia

[aPexSexPredator]

If you guys haven't been following the news recently, the House is throwing a temper tantrum because they can't derail Obamacare. I believe they have passed 42 different bills that would delay and/or defund the Affordable Healthcare Act, but the bills never get passed the Senate. As of 40 minutes ago, the government shutdown is in effect.

So, what's going to happen? Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of a job. National parks and museums will be closed. Absolutely no passports will be processed and/or issued. There will be no garbage pick up in Washington D.C (They generate about 500 tons of it in 1 week). I can't find any solid information on this, but to my understanding, anyone in the military will work w/ out getting paid. They may have passed a bill within the last week that would pay military workers in the event of the shutdown...I'm not really sure about that one, so let me know. When and/if this is over, these people may or may not be paid back.

Fortunately, USPS will still function and as well as social security. Funny thing is, medicaid, medicare, Obamacare, and all things related will be unaffected by this. Which leads me to wonder why they're even doing it...

I believe the last time this happened was in 1999 and lasted for about a month.

Military and national security still receive full pay in the event of a government shutdown.