A list of Consequences of the US govt. Shut Down

[CaptainPanic]

Dear all,

I am curious about the consequences of the US government shut down. So, can you all please add some very concrete things that were shut down? The NY Times listed a number already.

 

1. At NASA, 97% of the employees must go home. Only the essential employees for the current ongoing missions are working.

 

2. National parks and museums are closed. (That must suck if you want to do some tourism)...

 

3. Here's one from the Netherlands: The Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial is closed (source in Dutch), and it graves are no longer maintained. It is the final resting place of over 8000 American soldiers who died in World War II. If the grass grows too high, the situation will be re-evaluated but until then, the cemetery remains closed.

[michel123456]

Wikipedia is up to date.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_2013

And history from 1995-1996 tells (quoted from wiki)

 

A 2010 Congressional Research Service report summarized other details of the 1995-1996 government shutdowns, indicating the shutdown impacted all sectors of the economy. Health and welfare services for military veterans were curtailed; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped disease surveillance; new clinical research patients were not accepted at the National Institutes of Health; and toxic waste clean-up work at 609 sites was halted. Other impacts included: the closure of 368 National Park sites resulted in the loss of some seven million visitors; 200,000 applications for passports and 20,000 to 30,000 applications for visas by foreigners went unprocessed each day; U.S. tourism and airline industries incurred millions of dollars in losses; more than 20% of federal contracts, representing $3.7 billion in spending, were affected adversely.^[7]

 

Also waiting for Standard & Poor' s appreciation.