Thursday, October 10, 2013

Is Anyone Profiting from the Shutdown?

Reading more and more shutdown stories, the latest about how a private charity has stepped in to provide for families of military members who die on active duty. The shutdown has prevented the disbursement of funds that help these families grieving the loss of their loved one meet the flag draped coffin and those funds, that don’t seem like much when you consider the sacrifice of a life for our country’s freedom and ideals, shouldn't be withheld. The private group providing the coverage will be reimbursed by the government when it reopens. And there are others who will receive their pay retroactively when the government reopens as they have after shutdowns in the past. In the meantime though, is the government profiting from this shutdown? Perhaps gathering up interest on unpaid monies that they are sitting on? Maybe not since there is a looming budget ceiling battle on the horizon that all this shutdown business has just supposedly been a lead in for. I was just wondering. Or maybe Congress could throw any interest accrued during the shutdown at the national debt. Nah, they’ll probably just vote themselves another raise. 

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