re: Tell me why I should be okay with the government shutting down.

All non essential workers are getting a free vacation. When the governemnt is refunded, all furloughs are given backpay like always, same amount of money, but less productivity in the end, so that a couple of politicians can spew some bullshite and make a name for themselves, and some completely unaware citizens think their incompentant representitive did some battling of the waste machine.

Just one more example of how dumb our country is ran. We have a bunch of fkn morons who haven't managed anything successful in their lives on both sides of the aisle.