The US Government Has Shut Down

[Gahars]

The United States' Congress has been playing a nasty game of brinkmanship (aka "politics chicken") for a while now, with the rival Democrats and Republicans bickering over the nation's budget. Republicans have tried to tie budget negotiations to the Affordable Healthcare Act, Democrats were outraged, and shit just hasn't gotten done.

Well, we've reached the deadline without any budget, so... here are we. The US government is in shutdown mode.

A federal government shutdown officially began Tuesday morning as a deadlocked

Congress failed to reach an agreement on a short-term funding measure by a 12:01 a.m. ET deadline.

Government officials told agencies to begin executing plans for a shutdown -- the first in 17 years -- shortly before midnight Monday.

In a memo to executive branch officers sent less than half an hour before the deadline, Office of Management and Budget director Sylvia Burwell said there was no "clear indication" that Congress would reach an agreement to keep the government's lights on.

...The shutdown is expected to place tens of thousands of federal workers on furlough, close national parks and monuments, and disrupt services like food assistance and IRS audits.

Services like benefit payments and national security operations would go on as usual, and -- because of a bipartisan measure passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the president late Monday -- members of the military will continue to be paid.

NBC

Thanks, ya dinguses.

To be fair, this is hardly the first time such a thing has happened. We've been through this process 18 times in the past, so it's not like things are irreparably damaged or that we can't get back on track. Still plenty embarrassing, of course.

Kick your back your shoes and relax, folks. Thanks to all the Congressional dicks, tonight we're going to party like it's 1996.

 

[The Catboy]

You had one job!

 

[filfat]

We all know that the Leaders in use as kinda weird... USA please do not kill me...
BTW I am not saying that our "leader" isent weird, but he is defently better then Barack Obama(Have no idea how to spel that XD).

 

[Duo8]

Yep guys

Spoiler

 

[BrightNeko]

An here I was suppose to apply for food assistance in 17 days 8D

 

[Arras]

We all know that the Leaders in use as kinda weird... USA please do not kill me...
BTW I am not saying that our "leader" isent weird, but he is defently better then Barack Obama(Have no idea how to spel that XD).

From what I know this is not Obama's fault.

 

[filfat]

From what I know this is not Obama's fault.

I took him as a example, there is more peoples that "rule" in USA.
... Is you a secret spy from USA???... Please don't kill me

 

[Arras]

I took him as a example, there is more peoples that "rule" in USA.
... Is you a secret spy from USA???... Please don't kill me

No but Congress is not the president. I don't know too much about the inner workings about the US but I wouldn't be surprised if Congress has much more power than the president. The drawback is that they'll have to agree about everything or nothing happens (like here).

 

[filfat]

No but Congress is not the president. I don't know too much about the inner workings about the US but I wouldn't be surprised if Congress has much more power than the president. The drawback is that they'll have to agree about everything or nothing happens (like here).

True... Agent Arras

 

[FireGrey]

Wait what, how would the country even function without a government...?

 

[Duo8]

Wait what, how would the country even function without a government...?

Only parts are shut down.

 

[Arras]

Wait what, how would the country even function without a government...?

I point you to Belgium which had no government for 1.5 years or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010–11_Belgian_government_formation

 

[Deleted User]

Bah, the Republicans will stop being ignorant after awhile.

 

[anhminh]

Yes, we can
This slogan still work =))

 

[Jayro]

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

For some fun check out www.usda.com Has a special message about this. I wonder if the food is no longer being inspected? I knoww almost none was before but almost and is are not the same.
Edit: awwww they changed it.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Well...sucks for certain government employees.

 

[BORTZ]

If the NSA was monitoring facebook as heavily as they say, they could have already had this problem solved by all the experts.

 

[marcus134]

Wait what, how would the country even function without a government...?

Actually, the question is: what if the country could function without a government?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

For the laymen/non-US citizens:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/politics/government-shutdown-up-to-speed/