Looking around the internet today, Americans are angry. Congress is despised by the country and now we get this.
Economists believe a one-week shutdown would trim one or two tenths of GDP but the effects of a country that doesn’t believe or trust their leaders is far more corrosive. If you’re a company looking from the outside, would you invest in that zoo?
Slate has a humorous but insightful look at how the US media would report on the shutdown if it were in a foreign country.
The pleasant autumn weather disguises a government teetering on the brink. Because, at midnight Monday night, the government of this intensely proud and nationalistic people will shut down, a drastic sign of political dysfunction in this moribund republic.