Turned Off Tuesday – America's Closed, Go Home!

Those crazy bastards actually did it!  

Kudos to the Republican Party for standing by their principles.  It's too bad for us that their principles are INSANE and destructive to the American way of life – but at least they have conviciton.  In fact, some of them and many of their donors have already been convicted – with luck, more will follow (we're looking at you, Jamie!).  

Shutting down the Government is not an instant thing, it comes in various stages but Stage 1 already sucks for 800,000 Federal Workers that have been immediately furloghed without pay.  One might wonder what kind of monsters would take the paychecks away from 800,000 innocent people whose jobs are to HELP millions of other people get through their day but I'm not going to point any fingers – you can draw your own conclusions.  

At National Parks, Rangers are advising campers they have 48 hours to vacate but they can't use roads that go across Federal Lands – they're closed too.  The EPA is completely closed (big victory for the GOP and the Kochs there!) as are Veterans Centers and even the Pentagon is at half-staff, so the GOP is also opening up America to a terror attack for which we are now totally unprepared to respond to (and good job announcing it in advance boys!).  

Ironically, the Affordable Care Act, the ones the Republican'ts are trying to shut down, WON'T be shut down because it's already fully funded.  Again, someone is an idiot – but I won't point fingers…  The IRS has to cancel all audits, another victory for the tax-cheating constituency and, in one of the stupidest cuts of all, Members of Congress will begin losing staff – at the same time as they're supposed to be working on a solution to the funding issue!  The National Weather Service is shut down, so there may be a hurricane comming – we just don't know.  We also don't know anything about the economy, as all statistics are on hold – including Friday's critical Payroll Report!  

Of course, not paying 800,000…