The 6 Dumbest Government Shutdown Myths

[Coyotl]

The 6 Dumbest Government Shutdown Myths
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/government-shutdown-myths-debunked

The government shutdown is awful. It's awful in a lot of different ways—to kids with cancer, to firefighters, to domestic violence centers, to goats. Another way in which this awful manifests itself is through a parade of misinformation and bad memes about what's going on during this impasse. Here are six of the dumbest myths you've probably heard about the government shutdown:

1. Obama closed the ocean. ......

2. Obama is personally paying to keep a Muslim culture museum open. ..........

3. Obama shut down the Amber Alert program. ..........

4. NASA won't tell you about world-ending asteroids because #shutdown. .........

5. Priests are being threatened with arrest. ........

6. Shutdowns are "normal." .........

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[gordianot]

1. I like the Fox News position this is not a shut down just a slim down.

Then there is the line equating the debt ceiling to closing credit cards.