The 'doomsday' scenario: Here's what happens if the shutdown drags on

[signalmankenneth]

The country would face an economic hellscape if the government shutdown lasts "months or even years," as the president has suggested it might, experts tell NBC News.

The doomsday scenario might be unlikely — the longest the federal government has ever shut down is 21 days, a record that will fall if the current closure lasts until Saturday — but it is chilling.

"We'll be in no man's land," Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, told NBC News.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...f-the-shutdown-drags-on/ar-BBS3i6P?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[CharacterAssassin]

Sad that we have as a POTUS not only a guy who's a mobbed-up, incompetent con artist, but also the world's most prominent candy-ass mantoddler.

 

[Nordberg]

This economic disaster has a multiplier effect. When 800,000 people are not getting paid, lots of restaurants, theaters, department stores, and local businesses will lose customers. They are also suffering from the Trump shutdown. Family members are being hurt. Online sales will drop. Mortgages will not get paid. Homes will be in foreclosure. Trump is cruel and does not care about others, as his psychosis determines. He shows signs of being a sociopath.

 

[Bigdog]

I hope the Democrats keep it shut down until the 2020 elections.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

This economic disaster has a multiplier effect. When 800,000 people are not getting paid, lots of restaurants, theaters, department stores, and local businesses will lose customers. They are also suffering from the Trump shutdown. Family members are being hurt. Online sales will drop. Mortgages will not get paid. Homes will be in foreclosure. Trump is cruel and does not care about others, as his psychosis determines. He shows signs of being a sociopath.

I'm pretty sure that we've moved past the "shows signs of." Way past.

 

[tinfoil]

Funny, the IRS didn't give a shit about me paying my bills or eating when they seized my bank account over a late payment, which was in the mail actually, though I know how cliche that sounds. Fuck government employees with a rolled up constitution