30 Ways the Shutdown Is Already Screwing People

[KamaAina]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/shutdown-effects-already-screwing-people-goats

The federal government entered shutdown mode at midnight on Monday, after Congress failed to pass a continuing resolution that would keep departments and agencies up and running. Though some Republicans have dismissed the immediate impact of the shutdown, quite a lot of people have already been affected....

63-year-old Jo Elliott-Blakeslee: The shutdown of Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho has complicated the search for a woman who went missing in the park.

Animal-semen exporters: The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports, "No one in Louisiana will be able export livestock, embryos, fertilized animal eggs or animal semen." Animal semen? Yup, the USDA monitors that too....

Goats: 50 Nubian goats, tasked with eating poison ivy at a New Jersey historical site, were furloughed.

Goats are people, my friends.

[William769]

1. A group that is going to be hit hard is the Ryan White Program.

HIV medicine will not wait for the Bullshit of the Government shutdown and yes this program is affected.

[liberal N proud]

2. 31 - we have to listen to Newt talk about

From the comments.

[BlueToTheBone]

3. Maybe not, but they sure are good friends to people

because they keep the poison ivy down and leave little bundles of fertilizer.