How much is the us government shutdown affecting you?

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If you're in the US, how far do you feel you're personally affected by the government shutdown? I'm not in the US but I'm still concerned for and have sympathy for people who are. It sounds like a bit of a nightmare in many ways. Please vote away and share your stories if you want to. Perhaps it might even help eachother out or give advice? I know it's just an is it normal post but never know. Just a thought.

A LOT, it's really affecting my life. 1
Quite a bit. 6
Moderately. 8
A little bit. 14
Not at all. 53
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  • Shackleford96
    10 years ago | pl

    It hasn't affected me yet. Besides being pissed off at the stupidity of it all.

    I have actually seen signs up at a couple of parks that say "parks closed due to government shutdown..."

    Think I'll flip one off, take a picture of said act, and post it online for people to see.

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  • juniperlei
    10 years ago

    hasn't effected me at all

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  • dinz
    10 years ago

    It bewilders me that a government can just shut down... I expected that from some backwater country or a banana republic, but the United States of America? Are you kidding me?!

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      Yes, this would be the 18th time the government has ever shut down.

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  • Shroot
    10 years ago

    No difference

    They didn't do anything anyway, they just played joust with wheely chairs and snooker que's

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  • Thexoutcast
    10 years ago

    I wanted to go to a museum the other day and couldn't. That is the extent of which I've been affected.

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    10 years ago

    Eh, there are some services not being made available to some of us folks in the military, mainly uniform services. That and there is the pervasive worry that we will not get paid. There is paperwork being backed up for some soldiers here to process into certain places because the civilians who handle that are not working (because they are not getting paid).

    So yeah, it's making life difficult =/

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    • Energy
      10 years ago

      That's fucked up.

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  • Shrunk
    10 years ago

    I don't even know about it o_O

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    Meh.

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  • LovelyMay
    10 years ago

    Not yet...But when obama care kicks in, definitely!

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    I still eat sleep and crap..im good

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  • Couman
    10 years ago

    I think maybe I tried to look a t NASA website that was down once... that's all. I think the Republicans should have held their ground.

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  • college
    10 years ago

    It was holding up my financial aid.

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  • Sparkle6789
    10 years ago

    just a bit i guess. I recently received my social security card to work in the US, but they made an error with my name on the card and I have wait till the government is back to be able to change the name. Anyway it affected me because i went to go get my permit and couldn't because of the name, so now i just have to wait.

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  • q25t
    10 years ago

    Quite a bit actually. My dad works for the government and so has been off work for the last couple weeks. Luckily, he's been able to wrangle together other work to do, but it's still difficult on my parents.

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    10 years ago

    I'm not American but I have shares.

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