Shutdown Blues

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Hopefully, this post will be obsolete soon. However you feel – right/left, red/blue, D/R – the dysfunction of the Federal government shutdown is spooking people. In fact, they are saying it could affect your holiday shopping:

A big concern is that a prolonged government shutdown could severely hurt the economy and necessarily, consumer spending. For each week the government remains shut, the U.S. economy would lose 0.15 percent of annualized growth.  TheLedger.com

Mind you, this comes at a time – the last few months of the year – when retailers typically pull in 20 to 40 per cent of their annual numbers.

And, let’s not forget the folks who are making (or not making) the money that the retailers are chasing. Here, according to TheFiscalTimes.com, are the cities that can expect to take the hardest hit…

  • Washington DC (no duh!)
  • Bethesda MD (lots of govt contractors)
  • Norfolk VA (huge Navy base)
  • Honolulu HI (lots of military)
  • Dayton OH (huge Air Force base)
  • El Paso TX (Army base, Beaumont Hospital)
  • Colorado Springs CO (lots of military)
  • Oklahoma City, OK (Air Force, Federal offices)
  • Albuquerque, NM (THREE Air Force bases!)
  • Bakersfield, CA (Air Force)

The numbers are based on how much Federal income affects the local economy, with DC at around 18% and Bakersfield at around 7%.

So, truly, no politics here! Some folks think the shutdown is pure evil. Some think it’s a righteous protest. Others think that it is a bad thing that might lead to a better way of running things in DC. But, if you are affected, it stinks!

So, are you feeling the pinch? How are you coping? Let us know over at the MindField Online Facebook page and have a better weekend!

PS… I was going to include a picture, as I often do – something like “Uncle Sam turning his empty pockets inside out.” But I Googled that, got 20,000,000 results and got too depressed.

5 thoughts on “Shutdown Blues”

  1. I am frustrated to think congress puts so much thinking into what THEY want and not into What the PEOPLE want/need in this country. Obamacare is the most unamerican thing I have heard of. Those who cannot afford it get fined, but if theydon’t have the money to pay then how can they pay the fine. Sorry congress is like a bunch of little brats in a playpen who can’t get along. I am sick and tired of them thinking for me and screwing up this country puting us so far in debt we ALWAYS have to pay the price one way or another and we have to sit and watch like obedient children!!

  2. BUENO CON LOS PROBLEMAS TREMENDOS QUE TIENE EL PAIS LA ECONOMIA DE NOSOTROS LOS COSUMIDORES ESTA MAL , Y REALMENTE SE COMPLICA PARA COMPRAR PUES NO TENEMOS IDEA SI MAÑANA TENDREMOS TRABAJO , NO ES UN DETALLE MENOR .

  3. no blues here at all!
    feel bad for loss of income for the fed employees ,BUT
    soneone had to do something to stop the madness of our leadership .
    the Obama administration is a joke at best ,this is the worst president in American history and the affordable care act is a joke as well . it has cause job losses and only costs the American people more in the long run . this is something the country can do with out . time and money would be better spent insuring that doctors and hospitals are not performing high costing tests and unneeded operations . at 3 or 4 thousand dollars a day for a bed in a room is a money grab as well. there are much better ways to address health care costs than to once again lay everything on the individual . personally i cant wait till the next presidential election to get rid of these scoundrels in power .

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    CHERYL WILLIAMS

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