[svcw]

So nothing changes, everything still happens - why is this called a shut down?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

To scare the little people of Stonehenge.

[UCANSEE2]

So nothing changes, everything still happens - why is this called a shut down?

Or, as someone noted on another thread, the chance that we could even shut down the entire government, even for a day, is about the same as Hell Freezing over.