I am just going to reply to the medical survive-ability statistics with a story. My grandmother received medical treatment and got to live a miserable existence for 5 years until she died. Be careful with this kind of information because it isn't the whole story: being alive and living are two different scenarios and being alive with endless medical treatment is not living.
No, I am not suggesting death panels or anything else. Why are we so afraid of discussing these issues intelligently? Bravely? Where is the incentive for the medical community to even fight cancer for people in their 50's, 60's. Get your life in order, say goodbye to your friends and family and face it like an adult! We are born to die, not live forever.

Ha, ha, ha! This is so funny that I can hardly stop laughing. Yep, those "welfare mooching" states that sent Teabaggers to Washington D.C. to shrink the government are now wondering why Washington D.C. is leaving them out in the cold.

An early freak blizzard has k**led over 20,000 cattle in South Dakota and now they need some of that federal money. Ha, ha, ha! The agency they need has been furloughed because of the government shutdown, and there will be no "federal handout" for them. Oh, those "moocher states" are such cry babies.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard said that neighbors need to help neighbors and is asking for donations. Oh, this really should be interesting. How do you dispose of 20,000 cow carcasses? Wow, seriously, I would not want to live in SD or any other surrounding state when those carcasses start to decay.

South Dakota blizzard k**ls, burries cows; shutdown leaves ranchers in the cold (video)
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/us/south-dakota-blizzard-k**ls-herds-cattle/

South Dakota Fourth Largest Red-State Moocher
http://madvilletimes.com/2012/12/south-dakota-fourth-largest-red-state-moocher/

What is even more hilarious is the fact that the government shutdown will soon stop the "federal handouts" to those Red State moochers, freeloading deadbeats and gold-digging parasites. It is long pass time for the Blue States to pull the life support plug for those welfare bums.

Chris Christie Stabs Rand Paul In His Red State Moocher Heart
http://defendingthet***h.com/current-events/28299-chris-christie-stabs-rand-paul-his-red-state-moocher-heart.html

Just give it up, your party lost to that "mean black man" in the WH. You are probably suffering from the mental disorder called "Obama Dementia", which is what most on the right is suffering from. People did not like your policies, seniors are leaving the Republican party because of your attacks on Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. When you lose women 65 and over, you have lost. Independents are leaving because of the gerrymandering.

Because of this shutdown Obamacare has become more popular, so thank you for selling OC better than the WH. Obama's approval rate has gone up 2 points. I have to thank you for campaigning for Democrats, within 24 hours after the shutdown $840,000 was donated to DNC.

Woman left your party because of threats of overturning "Roe v Wade" and banning birth control. Whether you like it or not women do not want their bodies controlled by a tyrannical government. Family planning should be a woman's choice, not the GOP government.

You are the party of the rich, your governors tax the poor and give tax breaks to the rich. You are complaining about something that did not happen, we have a very serious problem that is happening today and that is the Koch brothers and other rightwing billionaires who paid $200 million to take down the government and defund Obamacare. This shutdown has been in the planning since February and the House GOPers are the puppets of the billionaire puppet masters.

Just deal with your loss and move on along... there is nothing else to see.