What You Can Get (Could have gotten) For The Price Of A Shutdown

[Bill USA]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/17/2796241/cost-shutdown-comparison/

.... Standard & Poor’s has estimated that the shutdown cost the economy $24 billion.

That’s not a small amount of money. How does that stack up against other big expenditures? Here’s just a sampling of what else costs that much:

• The net cost of to the government from the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP): $24 billion

• The Department of Agriculture’s proposed budget: $22.6 billion

• The cost of Head Start, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Women Infants and Children (WIC) program combined: $25.2 billion

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1. And fully fund the heating oil subsidy for the elderly

Plus do a hell of a lot of science.

There are many, many things that money could have been used for. However, if (and this is a big if), This debacle causes the house to turn over to Democratic control in 2014 and the dems retain control of congress and the Presidency in 2016, it just might be worth it.