There's no way the federal shutdown lasts too much longer. The heat is on and too many people feel the hurt now, especially in a place like New York. If I were a betting man, I'd say 3-4 days max.
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#22I’m glad to see this. The shutdown has been too “business as usual” for most Americans, while others are expected to work without pay, which is ridiculous.
This is caused slavery, government mandated slavery. I don't see how so many people can be okay with this happening. Why are we not outraged?
No, it'd be slavery if they couldn't quit.
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#23good no wall, no incoming traffic,
if we can't protect our people we shouldnt have a federal government and the states should have local responsibility.
as opposed to paying billions for oil wars while our door is left wide open whilst states flout our federal policy.
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#24Bearing in mind that ~40% of american's could not come up with $400 to cover emergencies, this is going to become more prevalent in the next few days / weeks as people will simply not be able to afford gas to get to their unpaid work. I read an article today discussing how TSA workers in HI are living in their cars in the airport parking lot as they cannot afford to commute. The FBI just cancelled its internship program due to the shutdown.
An administration official recommended that all those affected simply take out loans but unfortunately banks don't lend to people without an income nor to those who have recent delinquencies on their credit due to no income.
I feel very bad for these real people being affected by political showmanship.
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#25Federal workers should start striking. I gather that in most cases they're explicitly prevented from striking, but I think there's a good chance that it's too unpopular to actually punish them. Also yesterday some leadership of the flight attendants union called for a general strike until it was over: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/could-an-unlikely-av...
they're explicitly prevented from striking
Wow, is this true? Is this even legal (except maybe police and military)?
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#26When material damage begins to occur to US businesses their first call will be to certain Senators. Imagine Fedex with no flights, Disneyworld with no guests, Prime with no deliveries. It's a massive disaster in the making with lots of ripple effects. Even the mail won't move except by truck.
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#27We keep climbing this stupid mountain and I keep wondering where the peak is.
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#28Was the fall of Rome this embarrassing as well?
Awfully nice of our US friends to try and make and feel better about our current bit of unpleasantness with our government here in the UK, but you really didn't need to bother....
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#29There'll be a lot of angry people if the same thing happens in Atlanta over Super Bowl weekend.
Why is Super Bowl travel such a big deal? Doesn’t the stadium only seat about 50k people anyway? I understand that the game is exciting, but I don’t see what travel to one venu would be news.
A lot of people come for the atmosphere and other festivities. I'm sure the actual number of people visiting town for the game is closer to 200k than it is to 50k.
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#30Federal workers should start striking. I gather that in most cases they're explicitly prevented from striking, but I think there's a good chance that it's too unpopular to actually punish them. Also yesterday some leadership of the flight attendants union called for a general strike until it was over: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/could-an-unlikely-av...
Reagan did famously fire 11,000 striking air traffic controllers - so while you might be right I can understand a lot of hesitation.