The GOP’s Shutdown Tab: One Billion Dollars and Counting

[eridani]

http://ourfuture.org/20131003/the-gops-shutdown-tab-one-billion-dollars-and-counting

Forty million dollars an hour. A third of a billion every day. $1.6 billion every week. That’s a conservative estimate of the money Republicans are wasting by keeping the federal government closed down. And if pundits like Sean Hannity have their way, they’ll run up a much larger tab before this is all over.

But then, if there’s one thing Republicans know how to do, it’s run a tab.

The bill has already come to roughly $1 billion as of today (Thursday), and it grows larger every moment the government stays shut down. Republicans in Congress recently voted to cut $4 billion per year from programs that feed the needy. In two-and-a-half weeks they’ll have wasted more than that on their shutdown.

Why? ”We’re not going to be disrespected,” said one Republican House member. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

[B Calm]

1. I hope the something is, booted out on their ass!

[Hugin]

3. or at least punched in their goodie-bags.

It's almost too much to hope for.

[Hugin]

2. k&r

Thanks for posting.