The word "shutdown" is pretty fricking misleading.
60% of employees are still working. The remainder are on unpaid leave and every time this happens, they end up getting back pay after the shutdown is over.
80% of the money is still being spent. This means that even a "shutdown" US Government runs at a deficit.
It's political theater, and not much else.
Yep, also it's the media and both sides of the house creating such hysteria so they can step in at the last minute and save us from a crisis of their own making and look like people that
care about 'jobs' and 'families'. What a joke.