Thread on Government Shutdown: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OFFICIALLY REOPENED!

[No1]

Why is everything else closed but a golf course is open....

 

[DEAD7]

Can you name the 80% still running and the 17% closed?

A list of offices would be both frivolous and misleading, but based on estimates drawn from CBO and OMB data, 83 percent of government operations will continue. This figure assumes that the government pays amounts due on appropriations obligated before the shutdown ($512 billion), spends $225 billion on exempted military and civilian personnel, pays entitlement benefits for those found eligible before the shutdown (about $2 trillion), and pays interest costs when due ($237 billion). This is about 83 percent of projected 2014 spending of $3.6 trillion.

So the government shutdown, at least as measured by money spent, is really a 17 percent government shutdown. Perhaps that is why the effects of the shutdown, beyond some of the most visible problems, like at the monuments and memorials on the Washington Mall, don't seem to have the expected intensity. Seventeen percent of federal expenditures is still a huge amount of money, and the shutdown is affecting many people. But many more who are dependent on federal dollars are still receiving their money, either as salary, transfer payment, or in some other form.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrod...y-thirteen-percent-of-the-government-at-most/

 

[thekingsmen]

 

[thekingsmen]

A list of offices would be both frivolous and misleading, but based on estimates drawn from CBO and OMB data, 83 percent of government operations will continue. This figure assumes that the government pays amounts due on appropriations obligated before the shutdown ($512 billion), spends $225 billion on exempted military and civilian personnel, pays entitlement benefits for those found eligible before the shutdown (about $2 trillion), and pays interest costs when due ($237 billion). This is about 83 percent of projected 2014 spending of $3.6 trillion.

So the government shutdown, at least as measured by money spent, is really a 17 percent government shutdown. Perhaps that is why the effects of the shutdown, beyond some of the most visible problems, like at the monuments and memorials on the Washington Mall, don't seem to have the expected intensity. Seventeen percent of federal expenditures is still a huge amount of money, and the shutdown is affecting many people. But many more who are dependent on federal dollars are still receiving their money, either as salary, transfer payment, or in some other form.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrod...y-thirteen-percent-of-the-government-at-most/

Not disagreeing that things aren't and are operational but a golf course shouldn't be one that is operational

 

[DEAD7]

Not disagreeing that things aren't and are operation but a golf course shouldn't be one that is operation.

fair enough.

 

[IGSaint12]

Obama's Golf Courses are still open while a elderly couple is forced out of their home.
http://www.thelibertypaper.org/2013/10/06/fedsevictelderlycouplecitinggovernmentshutdown/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html?utm_source=WhatCounts Publicaster Edition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The Daily Editorialist: Shutdown Saturday Special&utm_content=open for play

Republicans shut down the government and republicans can reopen the government but they won't until they can get hostage concessions. I guess you gotta bytch about trivial shyt when you're at fault.

 

[Aprogressivone]

Forreal.... I just want to go back to work. fukk ALL THESE fukkBOYS in the GOV. I love my current position, but this shyt is making me want to go 100% private sector and not be a contractor.

 

[No1]

The grown man bars, " Surrender what...you created the fight." "You put up the chains and now you're cutting off your own chains."

 

[JT-Money]

Forreal.... I just want to go back to work. fukk ALL THESE fukkBOYS in the GOV. I love my current position, but this shyt is making me want to go 100% private sector and not be a contractor.

I saw the writing on the wall last year. I left Federal contracting and haven't looked back since.

 

[Sinnerman]

 

[Regular_P]

The grown man bars, " Surrender what...you created the fight." "You put up the chains and now you're cutting off your own chains."

All those cowards should be forced to face the people.

 

[Lord Scion]

Why is everything else closed but a golf course is open....

On base golf courses are apart of MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation - a program for military to unwind/relax...etc)... due to the shutdown, staffing for MWR is decreased but it still functions due to the military still getting paid and having to work. My base has many MWR related programs including a golf course which are still open.

 

[You Win Perfect]

if this were another country, there would be riots everywhere. agree?

 

[PartyHeart]

The grown man bars, " Surrender what...you created the fight." "You put up the chains and now you're cutting off your own chains."

"we're not French we don't surrender"

To a fight that you created with your own countrymen for no reason?? These people are reprehensible.

 

[88m3]