Let Them Eat Low-Interest Loans
“The economic pain is diffuse, as well as acute. The federal government is so big, its reach so vast, its spending so extensive, that the shutdown is slowing down thousands of communities and business sectors a little bit as it also slows down a few of them a lot. ‘It does affect every single sector,’ Fuller said. ‘Farmers are feeling it a little. The airline industry is feeling it a little. It begins to look like an interest-rate increase, or some other financial change that makes the economy grow more slowly, since such a broad range of services and contracts get curtailed.’”