Things Aren't Back to Normal....

        Bryce Covert and Alan Pyke wrote an article on Think Progress on October 10, 2013. The title of the article is: Not Everything Is Back To Normal Now That The Shutdown Is Over. The authors intended audience I believe is America, to let us know that even though the government has reopened the national parks, furloughed employees went back to work, and federal money started flowing back into different programs, a lot of people and businesses are still suffering from the shutdown.

        Many of the small businesses were hurt pretty bad during the shutdown and now some of the side effects are taking it's toll. LaJuanna Russell, president of consultancy Business Management Associates Inc, is considered about the work being backed up now because the business was closed down for the shutdown. Now there is more work to get done but LaJuanna doesn't have the money to pay her employees to work overtime. So she'll have to try and get all the extra work done in the time frame she has, which will be very difficult. But the biggest impact is the delayed payments on invoices, which means less money to spend and she didn't have a lot of money to spend in the first place before the shutdown.

        Other small businesses owners who have been waiting on loans from the Small Business Administration may also have to wait around and do nothing for a little while longer. The backlog of all the applications that were put on hold while the government was shut down may take up too six weeks or more to work through.

        Also at NASA several of the scientist's experiments had to be put on hold which now means that they have to start all their research all over again. Lee Stone a research for NASA had to stop his research with the Ames Research Center 20-g centrifuge, and now he is afraid that the opportunity many have all ready pasted for him to find good research.

        Several other people have or are still suffering from the shutdown. Some people that were laid off are now living day to day hoping to have enough to survive. So even though the government is on and running now, people still feel the effects of it being shut off for several weeks. The authors believe that the government hurt more then it helped with the shutdown. They lost billions of dollars by shutting it off and closing a lot of businesses, now people are trying to make up for the weeks that they were unable to do anything, that will be a huge challenge.

There is Nothing to Show for the Government Shutdown

                On Monday, October 7, 2013 a article was published by: Editorial Board on Washington Post titled:"The House GOP has nothing to show for its government shutdown" This article is very interesting and a lot of people are wondering what the government has to show for the shutdown. Not much according to the Editorial Board. "Damage the livelihood of millions of Americans? Check. Government secretaries, food-truck operators, cleaners who work in motels near national parks: They’re all hurting." 

               The intended audience for this article it the people. The Editorial Board is letting the people know that the government hasn't shown any improvements since they started shutting down our government a little over a week ago.

             In stead of helping the budget problem the Editorial Board believes that the government is just wasting and losing a ton of money. Wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on shutting down agencies, websites, and parks. It will cost a lot more to just reopen the stuff they have decided to close. Also the Editorial Board says another problem it that the House voted to pay the salaries of thousands of employees that have been ordered not to work. That's a lot of money that the government just gave to people who aren't even working right now.

             Another thing that the Editorial Board wrote, the shut down has interfered with key government operations. The National Transportation Safety Board can't look into accidents right now of a death of a worker who lost his life working on Metro's Red Line, this could make accidents in the future more likely. Also Our U.S allies from Tokyo are wondering wither or not they can rely on us when our president went AWOL from they're summit meeting in their region, it was a very important summit too.

               This article has a lot of great information there is also several other articles that are tagged into this article that does support this article really well.

             The conclusion for this article is very clear. That sooner or later if this government shutdown continues people will start getting angry. The people are already blamed Obama and The House but if this gets worst the people might start blame anyone who might have had a hand in this shutdown. "Americans could end up blaming everyone who seems to have a hand in this mess." The writer wrote what the the House should do if they want to keep this mess from getting worst. "A temporary extension of the debt ceiling, a reopening of the government and a commitment to engage in a process that leads to budget and tax reform." The last point the Editorial Board makes is if the House doesn't do something soon they could destroy our country.