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Jon: yeah. doesnt get and maybe doesnt care about until, you know, somebody isnt getting a check in the next week or so, you know, from the government. at the same time, the government is still collecting tax revenues, still can pay some of its bills if it chooses to, right? >> sure, yeah. there are, essentially 825,000 roughly civilian federal workers who would be furloughed in a shutdown. these are non-essential work is. they dont like to be called non-essential but technically that is what th...

Plans as many as 800,000 federal workers would have to stay home without pay and officials say they cant volunteer to work, that would be against the law. >> if we were to shut down at 12:01 on saturday morning, those that are furloughed need to power down their blackberries and not do any work and those who are working cannot reach out to those employees for work purposes. >> pete williams is nbcs justice correspondent. that was kind of an amusing moment inside the briefing room. we said why ca...

>> it wasnt blackberries. we had to worry about our pagers and big brick motorola phones in those days. people forget there were two shutdowns, in 95 and then in 96. we went through it twice. there was actually competition to be -- whether you were you w essential or non-essential employee. but it was trying to get to the right numbers and then eventually in the second shutdown it was to get to the right scoring so that we can get to an agreement and get the shutdown lifted. >> you know, the $3 ...

Personnel. so this is really going to be telling them. these letters say if there is not a spending bill passed, a fiscal year 2011 spending bill passed, then either you stay or you go. >> just to be clear, these notices that are going out, do they spell out whether or not these staffers are essential or non-essential, their jobs? >> they do. they do. theres two kinds of letters. if you are considered essential personnel, then gs it it is goi tell you that you are furlough exempt. if youre consi...

On this this morning? >> they have been very cautious with their public statements. and not pressing the libyan government too hard. and you have to wonder if that has to do in part with the fact that u.s. officials here want to make sure they get as many as those few thousand americans out of libya if possible before they start pressing the libyans much more. theres going to be a ferry leaving in the next few hours from tripoli. u.s. officials have put out the word there on the ground that amer...

Ready to grow again. well, thats different with our economy and our government because when they are in survival mode, all they have to do is raise taxes and they solve their problem. thats how we have got into the problem we are in today. >> richard, i have a theory, i have many, many of them are wrong, but i believe the shutdown illuminates whats not needed, its like one of those infrared flashlights that show dirt in hotel rooms. isnt that kind of true, you kind of see the stuff that, eh, may...

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Tonight. the government shutdown and me, thats the subject of this evenings talking points memo. whenever something bad happens, some bozo will call it a learning experience. ive had a lot of learning experiences, ask my wife. but with the shutdown its true, for example, i learned that 93% of the workers at the environmental protection agency are non-essential. now i didnt major in math, but im pretty sure thats more than nine out of ten. of the 16,000, roughly 1 grand are essentially making the...

Tonight. the government shutdown and me, thats the subject of this evenings talking points memo. whenever something bad happens, some bozo will call it a learning experience. ive had a lot of learning experiences, ask my wife. but with the shutdown its true, for example, i learned that 93% of the workers at the environmental protection agency are non-essential. now i didnt major in math, but im pretty sure thats more than nine out of ten. of the 16,000, roughly 1 grand are essentially making the...