Damage of #GOPshutdown is hard to ignore

The House GOP leadership still has no commonsense plan to avert another Republican Government Shutdown with a mere five legislative days until the deadline.  Yet the impact of another #GOPshutdown would be so catastrophic that the media continues to underscore more of the harmful effects:

CNN Money:

…anyone who lives paycheck to paycheck will have a hard time making ends meet.

Anyone applying for a job in the federal government or for a federal grant might want to start twiddling their thumbs.

Small businesses that rely on tourists and government workers for their livelihood could see a big drop-off in revenue during the shutdown.

Omaha.com (Nebraska):

"…the unpredictability of it all, that makes it a little bit more difficult to plan, train and equip," Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac, adjutant general of the Nebraska National Guard, told The World-Herald on Tuesday.

Washington Post:

Old Faithful would erupt with no one watching, because Yellowstone National Park and 407 others would close to the public.

Homebuyers would find their mortgage applications stalled because the offices they need to approve paperwork for loans would be shuttered.  And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have to stop monitoring the spread of the flu to direct vaccines where they are needed.

GOP leadership Members may attempt to downplay the impact, but the damage is hard to ignore.

Speaker Boehner – as CNN Money puts it: "even the threat of a shutdown is a waste" of time because…"it would inconvenience Americans across the country…"  The House GOP must remove this threat off the table and stand up to the Tea Party extremists who want to take our country to the brink of collapse.  Americans cannot afford this obstruction, distraction and dysfunction.