# House and senate fights, bard and others goes down...

Category: Let's talk

## Post 1 by Nicky (And I aprove this message.) on Monday, 30-Sep-2013 17:54:07

If the house and senate doesn't find middle ground. things like the bard website will not be availible for us to use until they get things resolved. thought to pass around the information with bard for anyone who wants to get books before tonight...

## Post 2 by Click_Clash (No Average Angel) on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2013 7:48:30

Um, the loss of Bard may be the least of our problems. Did anyone else fail to get their Social Security check this morning?

## Post 3 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2013 10:06:56

Some of us were ordered to stand down activities, those of us who volunteer for government emergency infrastructures, except in the case of actual emergencies. Yes, Bard would be the least of anyone's worries.

## Post 4 by Click_Clash (No Average Angel) on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2013 10:51:05

Well, as for Social Security, false alarm. Turns out I checked my bank balance before the system was updated, and then would you believe that when I went to check it again later in the morning, both the automated and online systems of my bank were down? So I had to wait, very much on edge, for almost two more hours before the automated system started working again to find out that my check was indeed in my account. What a morning!

## Post 5 by Tila Tequila! (Zone BBS Addict) on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2013 11:08:39

social security and medicare will not be effected

## Post 6 by write away (The Zone's Blunt Object) on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2013 13:35:06

What about medicaid? Does anyone know about that?

## Post 7 by Nicky (And I aprove this message.) on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2013 13:56:48

No nun of that will be effected. They talked about about it on the news, our SSI and medicare/medicaid will be fine for now... people will get their mail an their pay checks except for military people who will get somesortce of an IOU with i think is wrong... they have things to deal wiht but the military or who ever are going to make sure their bills are payed from what I heard on tv last night... no one's food stamps or anything big will be effected. Just the things the government declares as miner... which might not be miner to all.

## Post 8 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2013 14:08:08

How much you wanna bet that as soon as those idiots get the government up and running again they're going to vote a big fat raise for themselves?

## Post 9 by johndy (I just keep on posting!) on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2013 19:01:39

I'm from upstate NY, and the House member from my district just happens to be a moderate Republican. There are still a few of that species left. Nonetheless, I've already decided what I'm doing. May be unfair of me, but if I have anything to say about it, next year in the mid-term election, he's gone. I don't care that he may have had nothing to do with the shut-down; the entire Republican party is being held hostage by a group of about 80 extremists. My opinion is that the entire party needs to face near-extinction so that those 80 extremists, who apparently won't face much opposition in their own districts because their constituents are so conservative, are the only ones left. Like a few others have suggested, I think the shut-down of BARD is the least of our problems. We can't have a small minority of assholes shutting everything down because they want to act like children.

## Post 10 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2013 23:03:34

And it's precisely all this bickering and fighting that's destroyed any faith I might have had in our government.

## Post 11 by Tila Tequila! (Zone BBS Addict) on Thursday, 03-Oct-2013 2:22:22

Its sad that the last people to get paid or to not get paid at all are the people on the battle grounds fighting for our liberties. Its sad. I feel bad for them.
Social security and Medicaid and such will b the last to go, if that goes we are all screwed. I receive little state benefit but I work for a NFP and our biggest income is Medicaid.

## Post 12 by chelslicious (like it or not, I'm gonna say what I mean. all the time.) on Thursday, 03-Oct-2013 12:39:16

thankfully, Medicaid will not be affected. I checked into that, as I, probably like others, had a scare.

## Post 13 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 03-Oct-2013 13:18:26

Nothing that is state-funded will be affected. My wife's work is not affected because that nonprofit gets state dollars. It's only federal dollars.
Yes, I know it gets sticky: federal pays money into some state coffers, but that is usually annually and so not subject to the shut-downs of the feds.
I remember the callow way it was dealt with in 1995 also, and as I mentioned there are a lot of facets people don't talk about when it comes to shut-downs. Sadly, most people's historical memory approximates that of the average chicken, so I can't imagine people will catch on.

## Post 14 by chelslicious (like it or not, I'm gonna say what I mean. all the time.) on Saturday, 05-Oct-2013 10:42:43

in case people didn't see this posted on a couple other topics, BARD is back up.