Let’s take a snapshot of the shutdown, starting with the demand side …
Seriously, has the partial government shutdown impacted you personally?
Admittedly, my sample isn’t projectable, but — save for a couple of furloughed “non-essentials” — I have yet to run into anybody who has been impacted by the shutdown.
ABC-WaPo did run a projectable poll and found that 18% of Americans say they have been inconvenienced by the shutdown.
Take the converse of the WaPo findings:
82% of Americans have not been inconvenienced by the shutdown.
That’s less than 1 in 5 … and, it includes the furloughed gov’t employees who have certainly been inconvenienced.
Bottom line: From a demand perspective, the shutdown hasn’t been a particularly bad deal.
What about the supply side – the impact on government operations ?
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