And there's no doubt, when you shut down the U.S. airways for five days and hotels don't have any business and restaurants don't have any business, there's almost no way that an economy like ours can escape negative growth when you have that kind of a shutdown in the economy.

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And can you talk a little bit about the economic consequences of a government shutdown?

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You see, Minnesota is in the 14th day of a government shutdown.

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Alright folks, you can put down your pitchforks, drop that class action lawsuit and kill all 20 online petitions you started to try and get Apple to fix the MacBook random shutdown fiasco that has been haunting the Mac faithful these past months.

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If it came down to it, would you approve of a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown?

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Are you willing to work with them in the next few weeks so as to avoid a government shutdown?

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You can either go with a simple tool that has a reasonable chance of failing, or permanent shutdown.

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Could you just reassure people what will happen with regard to those kinds of government programs if there is a shutdown?

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