What do you think of the USA Government trying to shutdown?

I think it is time for someone to take action to slow down the national debt. I think the first thing to do would be to cut defense spending and a lot of the unnecessary spending that is done for having so many people in government. A lot of that could be done by not filling in positions that are vacated by retiring individuals or not currently filled for other reasons. I know that has been done before in many places. There is a lot of duplicate positions and if people would work smarter, they could get the job done with less people. Of course, that would mean more unemployed people, but something has to happen. I don't think "shutting down" the government is the solution, but if it were to analyze its spending, I'm sure that something could be cut without hurting social services. Unfortunately, big business is who is actually making the decisions and they are more interested in their bottom line than in what is good for society as a whole. If we were to get it so they weren't making the decisions, maybe then the country would run as it should.

Shutting down the government is not the right term. What happens is non essencial services are and not being done. In other words most of the things the government is not required to do would not get done.

Well, the government does "shut down" when the budget isn't passed in time. Of course, there is a difference between "shut down" and "closed down". Emergency procedures are in place for budget shut downs, so there is no crisis. But if the government continues to spend, print money and borrow at the rate it is going, then there will someday be a total meltdown. In such a case, there won't be anything to issue to SS, unemployment or anyone else.

A shut down does not effect essential services such as social security, military paychecks, etc. Provisions were made by previous Presidents to keep these services flowing in the event of a shutdown. The major difference popping up is that the House wants cuts and the Senate wants to keep 2010 spending levels. The House doesn't want to pass a temporary bill that doesn't at least have a few cuts integrated into it.

If memory serives me...Clinton actually used "shut downs" to balance the budget while he was in office. People still got thier SSI checks and the world (or this country) did not come to an end. I don't know why people are acting this is has not happened before. Or that things worked out just ok.

Kind of scary, but it wouldn't really 'shut down' things would still be running. I think america will figure it out like they always do. so i wouldn't worry too much, its a great smart country

This is what is called "Thrust and Parry" time. It is when the Dems. and Reps. try to get their own way. There will be a battle for awhile and then hopefully there will be an "intelligent" compromise. Of course with our Congress "Intelligent" is a misnomer.