Notice ACA Kalpone.....you make claims then only name call....just another name caller day in and out ACA! The rt winger plan...only name call to deflect from the story!  oh, do please spare us all will you? well I have yet to see you provide anything to deny my claims either have I? your self righteous hoo rah is nothing more than that, self righteous....  WHY PEOPLE ARE ANGRY AT TED CRUZ !!!  How the government shutdown shook up the US economy Analysts say the hit to gross domestic product from lost government services alone totals $3.1 billion.  what about that 8 trillion that went to 17 trillion in 5 years? your not angry about that are you? well you were when Nodumbo was running for his 1st term....  Though Congress finally put an end to the 16-day government shutdown late Wednesday night, economists say the standoff has drained billions of dollars from the U.S. economy, with effects extending across a number of industries beyond the federal government itself.  again... that 17 trillion must mean nothing. Gonna blame that on Bush too? like the democrats even said, a few billion is a drop in the bucket. so whats your beef, when we have a 17T, and someone actually tries to do something about it?  The shutdown forced hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors out of work, put government contracts on hold, shuttered national parks and museums and left businesses with fewer customers and lower sales. It's too early to know the final cost of those and other effects, but analysts at IHS Global Insight said the hit to gross domestic product from lost government services alone totals $3.1 billion.  no it put them on furlough, they still get paid for the time they didn't work. again, going to cry about 3 billion? to pay back on the interest is close to a trillion alone, what about that? There will also be some impact from lost private-sector jobs tied to the shutdown, as well as a loss of consumer and business confidence resulting from the debt-ceiling showdown," IHS economists wrote in an analysis released to the media. "The exact impact on the rest of the economy will be hard to measure until delayed economic data are released."  what do you think it will be when we can no longer raise our borrowing limit? Even before that data becomes available, analysts at Standard & Poor's estimated that the shutdown cost $24 billion (or $1.5 billion a day) and slowed the country's economic growth rate by an annualized 0.6 percent for the current quarter.  what have other failed programs, cost us? post some of those. funny I don't hear you call foul and point out that when Nodumbo and his band of thieves left Bush tax cuts in place for (what was it 3 years), and then threw in employment and R&D incentives how it hit revenue in the belt? well, you must have forgot how the R&D incentive had not only big business defense contractors, mostly pay in next to nothing and in some get money back from the tax payer huh?  There will also be some impact from lost private-sector jobs tied to the shutdown, as well as a loss of consumer and business confidence resulting from the debt-ceiling showdown," IHS economists wrote in an analysis released to the media. "The exact impact on the rest of the economy will be hard to measure until delayed economic data are released." Even before that data becomes available, analysts at Standard & Poor's estimated that the shutdown cost $24 billion (or $1.5 billion a day) and slowed the country's economic growth rate by an annualized 0.6 percent for the current quarter.  yet before those number are released your just gonna banter on and on?  "The bottom line is the government shutdown has hurt the U.S. economy," S&P said in a statement. "In September, we expected 3 percent annualized growth in the fourth quarter because we thought politicians would have learned from 2011 and taken steps to avoid things like a government shutdown and the possibility of a sovereign default. Since our forecast didn't hold, we now have to lower our fourth-quarter growth estimate to closer to 2 percent." The Washington, D.C. region was hit especially hard. Some local businesses took a major blow since there were fewer tourists and workers shopping and dining out during the shutdown. Pete's Diner on Capitol Hill, a favorite of many members of Congress including House Speaker John Boehner, lost about 80 percent of its usual business, according to MSN. Businesses like that diner, located in communities hit hard by the federal government shutdown, will never be able to make that money back. "While the federal workers will receive their back pay, the missed coffee, burgers and cocktails will not be repurchased upon their return," Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank, said in a statement.  since when did you care about small business? an idiot can see the ACA is going to kill small business, and those that don't fail will have to raise cost, costing the taxpayers plenty. where is your gripe about losss of revenue, because senate and congress get a 72% insurance subsidy? where again is your complaint with loopeholes for big business? where is your complaint that the middle class is going to bear the burden with tax hikes, insurance premiums, and unfair payments, and return subsidy for paying in? funny I work for a government contractor... I still have a job, my insurance is going thru the roof after the 1st of the year, and my out of pocket along with it... where is your complaint that with all this increase, it will put more middle class lower wage earners, on the taxpayer tab, because that loss hits them when it comes to food and paying for gas and electric? They will have to apply for food and energy assistance (the ones who were scraping by as it was) because they can not afford to feed themselves or keep a light on.  if you, and your ilk were not so ignorant to the obvious (might be because you never worked a day in your life) you would see what this is costing the middle class, and it hasn't even gone into effect yet, because they cant get the program up and running due to outdated equipment... where your complaint on that? heck, millions of Americans cant log on to check whats out there... I don't hear you crying about the hundreds of millions, now going to be in the billions, because the whole thing will have to be scrapped and started over. go on... let us hear foul on that!  But the shutdown's impact was felt well beyond the nation's capital. According to a new survey by International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs (GS +0.23%, news), about 40 percent of Americans say they had curbed spending as a result of the shutdown. The survey found that low-income consumers were especially likely to say the shutdown affected their behavior. Nearly half of those earning $35,000 or less said they scaled back their spending, versus about a third of respondents making $100,000 or more.  well, shucks of course it will affect low income earners behavior! their government benefits are at stake. they have to scale back on spending for reasons such as food share dropped a good chunk, as well as energy assistance. means they have more out of pocket costs. All this you have mentioned if Nodumbo would have least tried to work on spending, and making sure the ACA was ready to go forward for funding, BTW it still is not.
Police are investigating Twitter messages directed towards Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican who played a prominent role in efforts to derail Obamacare during the shutdown, officials said late Saturday.  Capitol Police in Washington D.C. told NBC News they were looking into Tweets …