jillian
Princess
If the government doesn't pay its bills, the economic slowdown would be felt by everyone. Got a business? Try surviving without the money spent by people on Social Security, for example.
The bills would still be paid though wouldn't they? Our taxes would still be deducted from our checks. I was in military during Clinton shutdown, I still got paid ... It was my understanding at the time that other fed empolyees also were paid (though the check were held until shutdown was ended, was that not the case? (it was awhile back, my memory isn't that great) and as I said, I was in military so I didn't actually "feel the shutdown" as the gerneral public would have.
Isn't there laws in place to say ... "these things must be paid with the money tgat is still coming in"?
You've changed the goalposts. To me "government shutdown" means just that, NOTHING happens. If it's shut down, who's going to be sending out the checks anyway?
there wouldn't be any checks.
because no money would be collected.
our debts would go unpaid.
our military would go unpaid and would not have supplies.
only a braindead loon thinks that's ok.