Your Handy Guide to Government Shutdowns

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Your Handy Guide to Government Shutdowns

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With all this talk of a potential government shutdown, it would help, wouldn’t it, to get to the bottom of what that scenario would actually entail? Well, according to this timely dispatch from The Associated Press, the term might be a bit of a misnomer, given what would actually happen (or not).

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By MK Ultra, April 6, 2011 at 3:58 pm Link to this comment

I’m all for a government shutdown. In particularly, if it entails shutting down the Department of Homeland Insecurity, TSA and the MIC. Go, go, go! If they keep those hucksters out of business for one week alone that ought to give ‘em enough money to balance the entire budget for the next 10 years and have a surplus.

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