83 percent of government not shut down

"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."

http://washingtonexaminer.com/wheres-sense-of-crisis-in-a-17-percent-government-shutdown/article/2536862?custom_click=rss

At www.maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com

My daughter is not allowed to work. Her job is not deemed vital to the continuation of the Republic. As she said, though, not-working welfare people are getting paid. I would add recipients of Social Security, SS disability, federal civil service, VA disability, military active duty/Guard/Reserve/retired/disabled. The FAA is still operating, as are FBI, ATF and etc. and etc.

Closing open-air monuments hasn’t exactly made the Democratic administration popular, nor has announcement of closing 1,100 square miles of ocean near Florida.

News persons and politicians, though, will continue to talk about the “government shutdown” and the “debt limit” and whatever that was earlier this year when the economy was supposed to go off a cliff or something.

“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”

Ecclesiastes 1:2 (NIV)