The 9th day of the government shutdown.

Welcome to the 9th day of the government shutdown. These are the impacts. A friend of mine listed a set of merchants her family will no longer be able to patron since her husband was furloughed–Common Market, Wegmans, Dancing Bear, YMCA, Farmers Market, England Acres, Lands End, iTunes, Sheetz, Zappos, Red Cross. This is times every person furloughed. This is why the business community is putting pressure on their bought politicians. It isn’t just demonized federal workers but all the other scientists and engineers that work for big corporations and organizations all no longer able to do their jobs, jobs that in no small part try to keep us in the precarious position of the world’s only superpower. This is all connected. These are the impacts of the government shutdown.

For the 630,000 some residents of DC I urge you to contact your representatives.  Those of us who live in DC can’t as we have none with any voting rights. If you can, call or email or text them to let them know how dissatisfied you are about their inability to do a fundamental part of their jobs, passing a budget.