BUDGET STALEMATE threatens bona fide shutdown for District of Columbia. Just put a fence around the Beltway so they can't get out....

Local (D.C. metro) talk radio asked callers to call in to tell how the government 'shutdown' affected them. During the time I was listening, not one caller had a negative comment to make. A common theme from the non-furloughed, non- government employees: "we're sympathetic to your plight, but now you know what it's been like for us these last 5 years."