godisreal

#1 85% of all government activities are actually being funded during this “government shutdown”.
#2 Approximately 1,350,000 “essential” federal employees will continue to work during this “government shutdown”.
#3 Overall, 63 percent of the federal workforce will continue to work during this “government shutdown”.
#4 The U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver our mail.
#5 U.S. military personnel will remain on duty and will continue to get paid.
#6 Social Security recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#7 Medicare recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#8 Medicaid recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#9 Food stamp recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#10 Those on unemployment will continue to get their benefits.
#11 Federal retirees will continue to get their pensions.
#12 The federal school lunch program has enough money to go through at least the end of this month.
#13 Public schools all over the country will continue to stay open.
#14 Almost all federal law enforcement officials will continue working.
#15 The Federal Reserve will remain “completely functional“.
#16 The Supreme Court will continue to operate normally and federal courts have enough money to keep going for at least two weeks.
#17 TSA employees will continue to molest travelers at our airports.
#18 Air traffic controllers will continue to monitor traffic at our airports.
#19 Hopelessly outmanned border patrol agents will continue to try to stem the tide of i*****l i*********n.
#20 Visas and passports will continue to be issued by the State Department.
#21 The Veterans Administration will continue to offer substandard medical services, and it will be able to continue processing benefit payments at least for now.
#22 The Obama administration apparently has plenty of money to spend on closing open-air memorials that are usually open to the public 24 hours a day.
#23 The Department of Defense announced the awarding of 94 new contracts worth a combined total of more than 5 billion dollars on September 30th – the day right before the “government shutdown”.
#24 The “government shutdown” has not prevented the new two billion dollar NSA spy center from opening up.
#25 Federal prisons will continue to operate normally.
#26 Amtrak trains will continue to run.
#27 The Patent and Trademark Office will be open.
#28 The Consumer Product Safety Commission will continue to issue product recalls if the products “create an immediate threat to the safety of human life“.
#29 The National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center will continue to track w*****r p*****ns.
#30 If the federal government needs to respond to a natural disaster, this “shutdown” will not affect that.
#31 NASA will continue to support the Mars Rover and the two American astronauts up on the International Space Station.
#32 All city employees of the D.C. government have been deemed “essential” and will continue to go to work.
#33 Even though the Obamacare exchanges are not working properly, people will still be able to access them.
#34 The IRS will continue to collect taxes, but it will be suspending punitive audits of conservative organizations.
#35 Barack Obama will continue to get paid for the full duration of this “shutdown”.
#36 The U.S. Congress will continue to get paid for the full duration of this “shutdown”.
And everyone else is on paid leave. They’ll get their backpay when we open back up for business..

Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2013/10/36-things-barack-obama-wont-say-shutdown/#1oZ814mf33sXVbgz.99

runzwsissors Loc: Calhoun, GA

I say let's just keep it closed.

hprinze Loc: Central Florida

I cannot refuse to reply to number 21 wherein you called the VAQ meducal services "sub standard".

I can't speak for all VA medical services, but the Tampa VAMC is staffed with the most caring, dedicated, and competent people available anywhere. That includes doctors, nurses, technicians, orderlies, and every part of the facility.

I have heard a few horror stories about the VA, but no worse than the ones about civilian facilities, And the local horror stories are told by people who have never used VA medical facilities.

2004done

you forgot #37- The "president" will continue to try to punish the American people for his not being willing to negotiate with Congress. I'm also pretty sure that the latter part of #34 is only overtly true. And while we're on it, according to "homey Holder," the DOJ can and will find money to continue to investigate George Zimmerman to find anything to charge him with, as well as wh**ever else he deems necessary (it isn't "their money," it's "your money" they spend while they can't spend any.)

2004done

I haven't seen the local VA and hospitals as poor (they're actually better than local hospitals I'd say), but the VA regional centers where the decisions about disabilities are made, that's a different story.