Originally posted on 10/17/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by SamDiamond View Post
This moronic shutdown created by Ted Cruz King Obama cost the US economy more than 24 billion dollars.

The mom and pop deli that sells lunch to government workers? Yeah, they were affected. They dry cleaner who has a customer base consisting of 60-70% of fed workers--- he was affected. The parking garages owners, the moving companies, they carpet cleaners that clean federal office buildings---- all lost money that they won't get back.

For what reason?

So Ted Cruz can act like a coksucker and be phony tough. Obama bent him and the tea baggers over, and the only ones hurt were the innocent small business owners that rely on federal workers as their customer base.
fixed it