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9 million visitors were shut out in the last shutdown, costing $14 million a day in lost business. now, if you're a business that relies on those visitors, too bad. now, i was wondering, are you a veteran who relies on benefit checks, gi bill educational support, or just need someone at the va to answer your questions? too bad. they won't be there. more than 400,000 had to wait for their checks in the last shutdown. this got real ramifications. do you work for a government contractor, or work forson who supplies them? well, too bad. are you a state or local worker whose salary is subsidized an...

Park or monument? too bad, can't get there. 9 million visitors were shut out in the last shutdown, costing $14 million a day in lost business. now, if you're a business that relies on those visitors, too bad. now, i was wondering, are you a veteran who relies on benefit checks, gi bill educational support, or just need someone at the va to answer your questions? too bad. they won't be there. more than 400,000 had to wait for their checks in the last shutdown. this got real ramifications. do you work for a government contractor, or work forson who supplies them? well, too bad. are you a state o...

Take the $30 billion that we normally spend on new roads and we're going to cut it. there's an $11 billion in the budget where obama says during the crisis, i'll pay for the interest and principle on debt that state and local governments incur for construction. take that out. and $5 billion for build america bonds which is a pork barrel program of obama's. get rid of the pbs appropriation, the $500 million and you can put that together to equal the number of cuts the republicans want. the point i make in the book is the problem is that the republicans are now coming in with cuts in almost ever...

Interrupted. national park and museums would be closed for instance. social security and veteran benefit checks did go out in the clinton shutdowns but those seeking new benefits could be affected. >> a government shutdown means that there is some delay in processing, potentially some delay in receiving and processing benefits. you couldn't get an f.h.a. mortgage approved for instance. or v.a. mortgage. >> but the amount of pain felt from the shutdown is really up to the president, who has considerable leeway in determining how it works. >> there issome latitude in the situation. but the inter...

Wouldn't immediately suffer as a result of it. but a couple of things here. first of all, on the down side for president obama and the democrats, john boehner is not newt gingrich. he's not the ego guy that newt was. newt managed to make it about him. i don't think boehner is going to make that mistake. i'm not sure that barack obama is quite as good at survivalist maneuvering, the hand to hand combat as bill clinton was back when newt was around. but on the other hand, there are those 87 or so tea party people in the house on the republican side and they are so ideologically driven that they ...