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Looming Gov't Shutdown

by , Posted to on 02/25/2011 10:26 AM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 08/12/2003
Location: ND
If the Gov't shuts down can we be exempt from paying taxes for that same time period?  Seems only fair to me.
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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 10:35 AM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Location: ND

No.  We still have to pay union dues to "indirectly" fund Democrat re-election.

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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 11:25 AM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Location: ND
Horsager, what is the deal with this? 
Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 11:30 AM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Enslow Said:
Horsager, what is the deal with this? 

If US congress doesn't pass a budget or extend the current resolution, the gov't shuts down March 5.  No SS checks, Gov't employees in "non-essential" services will be sent home unpaid, medicare and the Fed portion of Medicaid will go unfunded, etc, etc, etc.

Lotsa hub-bub about it on the news.
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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 11:36 AM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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There was no actual US Gov't Budget proposed or passed through congress in 2010. As such, we've been operating under a continuing resolution passed by the  Dem controlled congress of 2010.  The new R controlled house wants 100Million in spending cuts, so far the Dems are balking and shutdown day is looming.

This happened in '95 when Clinton and his R congress couldn't see eye to eye.  Fed gov't shut down for 25ish days.
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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 11:39 AM | Reply #5 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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 What does this mean for college students? Any affect to us? Colleges? Blue color working man? not big into the government/politics.... so any insight you have is appreciated.
 
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by on 02/25/2011 11:39 AM | Reply #6 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 11:50 AM | Reply #7 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Location: ND
taylorman_55 Said:
 What does this mean for college students? Any affect to us? Colleges? Blue color working man? not big into the government/politics.... so any insight you have is appreciated.

Dunno.  In your shoes I'd Google '95 shutdown and study up on who/what was effected, for how long, and to what degree.

I wonder what this spring's flooding will be like if NWS and FEMA are idled?  Sure we have our own local metorologists but if NWS isn't feeding them satellite data.....

Those who wish to do the US harm are likely wringing their hands in anticipation of the Gov't further taking it's eye off the ball.
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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 12:27 PM | Reply #8 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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If I remember right, they closed Lake Darling during the last shutdown.
Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 12:33 PM | Reply #9 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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You guys need to do some research before making wild statements....see story below

Psst. No shutdown during a 'government shutdown'
AP

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

Psst. No shutdown during a 'government shutdown'

WASHINGTON – Social Security checks would still go out. Troops would remain at their posts. Furloughed federal workers probably would get paid, though not until later. And virtually every essential government agency, like the FBI, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard, would remain open.

That's the little-known truth about a government shutdown. The government doesn't shut down.

And it won't on March 5, even if the combatants on Capitol Hill can't resolve enough differences to pass a stopgap spending bill to fund the government while they hash out legislation to cover the last seven months of the budget year.

Fewer than half of the 2.1 million federal workers subject to a shutdown would be forced off the job if the Obama administration followed the path taken by presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. And that's not counting 600,000 Postal Service employees or 1.6 million uniformed military personnel exempt from a shutdown.

So we're talking fewer than one in four federal workers staying at home. Many federal workers get paid on March 4, so it would take a two-week shutdown for them to see a delay in their paychecks.

The rules for who works and who doesn't date back to the early 1980s and haven't been significantly modified since. The Obama administration hasn't issued new guidance.

The air traffic control system, food inspection, Medicare, veterans' health care and many other essential government programs would run as usual. The Social Security Administration would not only send out benefits but would continue to take applications. The Postal Service, which is self-funded, would keep delivering the mail. Federal courts would remain open.

The cherry blossoms in Washington would bloom as usual, and visitors to the city would be able to park and see them in all their glory around the Tidal Basin.

But they wouldn't be able to take the elevator up the Washington Monument, visit museums along the National Mall or take a White House tour. National parks would be closed to visitors, a loss often emphasized in shutdown discussions.

The Capitol would remain open, however. Congress is deemed essential, despite its abysmal poll ratings.

The IRS wouldn't answer its taxpayer hotline — at the height of tax-filing season. Under IRS precedents, the agency would process tax returns that contain payments. But people getting refunds would have to wait.

All sides say they don't want a so-called shutdown like the two separate partial government closings in 1995-1996, when President Clinton and a then-new GOP majority in Congress were at loggerheads over the budget. Republicans took most of the political blame, and the episodes gave Clinton critical momentum on his way to re-election.

There haven't been any shutdowns since then. The politics stink.

But from a practical perspective, shutdowns usually aren't that big a deal. They happened every year when Jimmy Carter was president, averaging 11 days each. During President Reagan's two terms, there were six shutdowns, typically of just one or two days apiece. Deals got cut. Everybody moved on.

In 1995-96, however, shutdowns morphed into political warfare, to the dismay of Republicans who thought they could use them to drag Clinton to the negotiating table on a balanced budget plan.

Republicans took a big political hit, but a compendium of the other hardships experienced reads like a roster of relatively minor inconveniences for most Americans: closed parks, delays in processing passport applications, 2,400 workers cleaning up toxic waste sites being sent home, and a short delay in processing veterans' claims. A new government standard for lights and lamps was delayed.

To be sure, furloughs can be a major hardship for federal workers. Even those in essential jobs — and required to work — could see their paychecks delayed if a stalemate dragged on.

Lawmakers, however, typically provide back pay, even for employees who weren't required to work. A repeat of that could raise hackles with some in the tea party-backed House GOP freshman class. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, wouldn't address whether furloughed federal workers would receive back pay if there is a shutdown this time.

Regardless, federal contractors would lose out. Many contract workers could be furloughed without pay and not receive lost wages retroactively, especially in an extended shutdown.

Under a precedent-setting memorandum by Reagan budget chief David Stockman, federal workers are exempted from furloughs if their jobs are national security-related or if they perform essential activities that "protect life and property."

In 1995, that meant 571,000 Defense Department civilian employees, some 69 percent, remained at post, while 258,000 other Pentagon workers were furloughed. Eighty-five percent of Veterans Administration employees went to work as did 70 percent of Transportation Department workers.

But just a handful of Environmental Protection Agency employees and only 7 percent of NASA workers were on the job, according to Clinton administration data.

This year, NASA would face widespread furloughs that suggest a shutdown could interrupt preparation for space shuttle flights this spring — though the "life and property" rules would almost certainly be invoked so that the Space Shuttle Discovery could land as scheduled on March 7. It took off Thursday afternoon.

Just 4 percent of employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development went to work in the 1995 shutdown, as did 11 percent of Department of Education employees. The National Archives shut down completely, as did the tiny Selective Service System.

Then there's Social Security. Current beneficiaries need not worry; their payments wouldn't be affected. And given the most recent precedent from the Clinton administration, those eligible to apply for benefits would be able to do so.

During the first shutdown in 1995, the Social Security Administration initially furloughed 93 percent of its workers and stopped enrolling new beneficiaries. But it reversed course in the second shutdown and kept 50,000 additional workers on the job.

If the federal government is shut down for several days, the Census Bureau could miss its April 1 legal deadline to provide 2010 redistricting data to the states. The bureau is currently in the midst of checking its population tallies, which are broken down by race and ethnicity down to the neighborhood level, for many states.

By the March 4 deadline, the bureau expects it will have distributed the data to about roughly half the states, with big states such as California, New York and Florida potentially left hanging if the government closes down.

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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 12:42 PM | Reply #10 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Well there you have it.

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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 1:19 PM | Reply #11 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Location: SD
Horsager-

Some NWS folks would remain working to provide forecasts and warnings, but  special support such as NWS EOC staffing during a flood event (i.e. Red River) mostly likely would not take place. So just the basic level of service would remain, but anything above and beyond like the specialized on-site support that has become common during the high impact flood events would not take place.  Also, if equipment broke down, such as a radar or surface observing equipment at an airport, there is a chance that would not get repaired in the usual timely fashion it normally would. This could impact commercial air traffic. If the NWS web sites went down, they might not be back up until it was all over. Still lots of unknowns, and there is NO guarantee that employees who are forced to stay home will get back pay either. History would suggest it, but I would not hold my breath.

Horsager Said:
taylorman_55 Said:
 What does this mean for college students? Any affect to us? Colleges? Blue color working man? not big into the government/politics.... so any insight you have is appreciated.

Dunno.  In your shoes I'd Google '95 shutdown and study up on who/what was effected, for how long, and to what degree.

I wonder what this spring's flooding will be like if NWS and FEMA are idled?  Sure we have our own local metorologists but if NWS isn't feeding them satellite data.....

Those who wish to do the US harm are likely wringing their hands in anticipation of the Gov't further taking it's eye off the ball.



Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 1:23 PM | Reply #12 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Re: Looming Gov't Shutdown
by on 02/25/2011 1:37 PM | Reply #13 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Location: ND
I remember the 95' shutdown. We went down for Sturgis and didn't have to pay to get in the park to see Mt.Rushmore. No park employees working the gate.
Education will tell you a tomato is a fruit, while wisdom will tell you not to put it in a fruit salad.
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by on 02/25/2011 1:41 PM | Reply #14 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Location: ND
Let's see, if I remember right, we had not budget from Oct 1 thru Nov 26 or so in 1978.
As a member of the armed forces, we did not see our mid or end of month paychecks in October nor our Mid month Nov check.  This really effected the soldiers, (esp the lower enlisted )   Housing rent and food purchases became a big problem for us.  We still showed up for work every day.  Not sure what they would do if it shut down for a few months, but if it does , expect rapid inflation rates , if our currency is even accepted.
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by on 02/26/2011 9:25 PM | Reply #15 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Government Shutdown 2011: 5 Immediate Consequences If It Happened

Feb 22, 2011 – 3:50 PM

Mary Phillips-Sandy Contributor

Will the United States federal government shut down on March 4?

It's possible. This weekend the GOP-led House passed a new spending measure that included $61 billion in spending cuts. Senate Democrats have said they will not approve the measure, which targets education, consumer safety, health and other programs.

The problem is, the spending measure that's currently in place is set to expire March 4, and Republican House Speaker John Boehner has said he will not agree to a short-term extension of that measure unless additional cuts are made. So unless a compromise is reached between now and then, all non-essential government operations will be shut down in two weeks.

The last time the government shut down was 1995-96, when Newt Gingrich and other GOP leaders clashed with President Bill Clinton over budget issues.

Based on what we know from previous shutdowns, we can estimate what will happen if the government soon shuts down.

1. Workers will be furloughed without pay.
The first shutdown in 1995, which lasted five days, affected 800,000 non-essential federal employees. The second shutdown, which lasted three weeks, furloughed 260,000 employees without pay. (Most eventually collected paychecks.)

2. National parks and museums will close.
In 1995-96, 368 National Park Service sites closed, as well as national museums and monuments. That meant losses of over 2 million visitors and associated tourism revenue to states.

3. Veterans' services will be affected.
Health, travel, finance and welfare services for U.S. veterans will be curbed.

4. Visa and passport processing will be delayed.
The U.S. tourism and airline industries reportedly lost millions of dollars after the 1995-96 shutdowns halted visa and passport processing. Approximately 200,000 U.S. passport applications went unprocessed during the shutdowns and 20,000 to 30,000 foreign visa applications were unprocessed.

5. Border patrol and law enforcement will be curtailed.
The last shutdown had a number of consequences for law enforcement and public safety operations, including reported cancellation of hiring 400 border patrol agents and cancellation of federal law enforcement recruiting programs. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms also saw delays in processing license applications.
 
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