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Originally Posted by iruinedyourday [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here you go: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...se-Republicans

From October 1 through 16, 2013, the Federal Government entered a shutdown and curtailed most routine operations after the Republican led Congress failed to enact legislation appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014. During the shutdown, approximately 800,000 federal employees were indefinitely furloughed and another 1.3 million were required to report to work without known payment dates.

The financial services company Standard & Poors estimated that the shutdown, which lasted just over two weeks, cost $1.5 billion per day, took a total of $24 billion out of the U.S. economy, and shaved 0.6% off fourth-quarter GDP growth.

Here’s a breakdown of some of the economic cost:

About $3.1 billion in lost government services, according to the research firm IHS.

$152 million per day in lost travel spending, according to the U.S. Travel Association.

$76 million per day lost because of National Parks being shut down, according to the National Park Service.

$217 million per day in lost federal and contractor wages in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area alone.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers bore the economic brunt of the shutdown. But small businesses also suffered from frozen government contracts and stalled business loans. Tourism suffered from closed national parks, and military families had to cope without childcare and other services.

TOTAL: $25,000,650,000

Here’s a state-by-state breakdown of the net loss of Federal medicaid expansion funds:

Alabama: -$943,000,000

Alaska: -$229,000,000

Florida: -$5,038,000,000

Georgia: -$2,862,000,000

Idaho: -$297,000,000

Kansas: -$950,000,000

Louisiana: -$1,655,000,000

Maine: -$294,000,000

Mississippi: -$431,000,000

Missouri: -$2,249,000,000

Nebraska: -$738,000,000

North Carolina: -$2,591,000,000

Oklahoma: -$1,264,000,000

South Carolina: -$807,000,000

South Dakota: -$224,000,000

Texas: -$9,217,000,000

Utah: -$719,000,000

Virginia: -$2,839,000,000

Wisconsin: -$1,848,000,000

Wyoming: -$166,000,000

This totals more than 30 billion in rejected funds.

Republicans have squandered money on hubristic, base-rousing engagements and re-investigations, and forfeited money available for a wholly legitimate and beneficial expansion of health coverage for low-income families. Sadly, it’s not them who are left counting the costs.

I mean lets be honest, straight up, The republican party doesnt think "economicially" it functions to destroy our goverment, and uses religious zelotry to rally voters. Its a bastardization of what the part once was.

I mean hell who is the leading candidiate for 2016? Ben Carson? Trump?

Do you really need another republican failure in the white house to teach you that the same broken things DONT make a right?

When is enough enough?

You really think that all those policies have been given to us by the Republicans alone? I recall congress being controlled by Democrats for many years with a Democratic president who signed all these laws. That fact probably doesn't make a difference to you though, or does it?