The Government Shutdown Countdown Lowdown MEGATHREAD

[Eddie Teach]

You wanna eat mad cows?

[Ideologue]

The FDA gives me half my work.  If they didn't approve dangerous drugs, who would?

[garbon]

You wanna eat mad cows?

Doubt the FDA being open would stop that.

[Admiral Yi]

FDA is a stand-alone agency, isn't it?  Food inspectors under Agriculture would be the ones psychoanalyzing livestock.

[Ideologue]

FDA is part of the DHHS.

[Admiral Yi]

Really?  What a weird place to stick it.

[Sheilbh]

Really?  What a weird place to stick it.

Public health, no?

[Razgovory]

I thought congress had passed a bill to fund the entire military. I don't know why they send the DA civilian workes home, or wby the commissary is closed. Didn't I post this already?

Because they are leverage.

[Syt]

[garbon]

Lame.

[Neil]

The problem is that analogy doesn't hold up anymore.  The result of Republican policies is poverty, disease and death.

Yeah... I'm pretty sure that if you look at all major economic indicators, the Democrats have a way better track record for the US than Republicans these last 5 decades or so.

I wouldn't go that far.  I think the further back you go during that time period, the more it can be debated who had the right ideas.  But right now, there's no doubt that the Republicans do not have anything useful to say about economic policy.

[Jacob]

We are supposed to be sad about the closing of OSHA, EPA and FDA?

It's like you looked at China and all its food safety scandals, rampant environmental degradation, fake drugs scandals, and and general lack of consumer safety and thought "great, let's make it like that!"

[Razgovory]

We are supposed to be sad about the closing of OSHA, EPA and FDA?

It's like you looked at China and all it's food safety scandals, rampant environmental degradation, fake drugs scandals, and and general lack of consumer safety and thought "great, let's make it like that!"

Keep in mind his profession.

[Jacob]

Nine year old boy gets on flight to Las Vegas from Minneapolis without ticket; TSA blames government shutdown.

That's some serious gumption, kid.

[11B4V]

  So, technically he just relocated the bag.

What did occur was some serious deviance by the nine-year old: Before boarding a plane, he took a bag from a luggage carousel, and then ordered food at an airport restaurant. He told the server he had to use the bathroom after eating, and then never returned to pay the bill or pick up his stolen bag.