[Lucky9teen]

I sent her a link I found (http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2013/09/19/what-happens-if-government-shuts-down/) where they explain what actually happens if the govt shuts down. In the article, it explains:

Social Security and Medicare payments will still go out, but experts say a shutdown could bring delays.

Both programs are considered mandatory funding, which means they were written to be funded indefinitely and there’s no annual appropriation.

AND

“The president will do what he can to make it seem like the public is going to be inconvenienced with a shutdown,” says von Spakovsky. “National parks will close and the places people like to visit in Washington, D.C., will be unavailable. But planes will still fly, Medicaid and Social Security checks will still go out…the average person might not even notice a shutdown.”

She thanked me for the info. Apparently she only views what’s on MSN....and does NOT do any research. Typical democrat.

[SkyPilot]

Social Security and Medicare payments will still go out,

Oh, goodie.

Amazing, isn't it, that the largest contributors to out debt and deficit (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid), continue down the happy garden path, even while the rest of the USS America sinks around it.

But starting in 2016, deficits are projected to rise again as more baby boomers begin drawing from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — the fast-growing entitlement programs, which Democrats and Republicans cannot agree on how to rein in. ......What is different now is that the Republican-controlled House and the White House have been on a two-year run of deficit reduction that has resulted, because of their inability to agree on entitlement reductions and higher tax revenues, in deepening cuts in the budget areas that are not responsible for the projections of mounting debt. Those discretionary spending programs — which include things as varied as Pentagon weapons purchases, air traffic control, science and research, education and national parks — are being squeezed even as entitlement spending grows automatically.