what cracks me up about them shutting the government down, is that it actually doesn't save that much money if it saves any at all. They do the same thing in Hawaii, public workers get 2 furlough fridays a month to help "save money". Most of them are salaried workers and get paid regardless of if they are there or not. Besides, all the workers being told not to go to work just collect their check when they go back in to work. So I fail to see how this will solve anything?


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Considering the stock market hasn't shown any freak out, I think it will all be ok. Nothing really happened the last time this came about anyway so no big worry.
This. I think the shutdown is more of a bluff than anything. But eh. We will see.


edit: so reading more about it now. the posts that will be closed will just have saturdays off. so you mean they will have a normal weekend like normal people? why did they work saturdays anyway?