From
veronica_rich because I couldn't say it better:
Someone Finally Sort of Said it I personally won't endure anything more than a delay in my federal tax refund, part of which I use to pay my local tax (which likely would not have been a problem, had I sent it in a week earlier).
It's really nothing to complain about, considering that soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya (not to mention those stationed here) won't get paid at all...
...while Congress will continue to collect their paychecks.
And we know this is all because they love America are concerned for their tea bag religious right base.