Government Shutdown Essay

Kyhiem Chaplin

Political Science

Government Shutdown Sends Fear throughout Globe

In today's recent national affairs, one of the most important topics that come up is the government shutdown of 2013. This political and financial crisis has crucially affected millions of American citizens all over the country in countless ways. When it comes to discussion about the government shutdown, most people will agree that the main reason for the shutdown would be because the government failed to pass legislation for appropriating funds for the economic fiscal New Year for 2014. Where this agreement ends is on the question of how much damage the government shutdown had on different concepts of international government. Government spending and different policies also played a major role in causing this political and economic crisis. The negative effects of the shutdown have affected the jobs and lives of many hard working Americans. This caused a number of important health programs important to public safety such as infectious disease surveillance, inspections of food and drug manufactures and monitoring of imported food and drugs.1 This affected many American citizens because it causes the food they eat to possibly infected with disease which can cause sickness or even death and it also caused health and human services to let go 52 percent of its staff during the shutdown.2 It also caused many employees to be laid off at a peak of 850,000 people.3 This unfortunate economic crisis caused various negative effects on the lives of Americans all over the nation. It also negatively impacted the lives of Americans by bringing programs to a halt that they relied on to get by.

What is agreeable about the government shutdown is that the reason ...

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...usion and the government is up and running like it was before ties fiscal crisis began. This government shutdown was the eighteenth shutdown in the history of the United States government. The previous shutdowns occurred due to money issues, unsolved agreements, or other political conflicts. The god news about the shutdown is that Obama has made a good transition and is now backing on the track to getting the government to where it was before the shutdown.10 The U.S government was its own cause for the government shutdown and because of this; it lost its gold-star rating as a country. The government shut down changed the lives of many American citizens and from the standpoint of a citizen, it is apparent that America's governance and policy making tactics has not only become less stable but has also become less effective and predictable than it was believed to be.