US Shutdown Day 10 The Heat is On

The NY Times reports Polls show "Growing Concerns About Shutdown".

Responding to an open-ended question, 33 percent of Americans said the nation’s most important problem was the government, politicians or Congress – up from 16 percent who said so last month, and the highest since Gallup began asking the question in 1939.  The Republican Party netted the worst ratings during the first week of the shutdown – just 28 percent of Americans now find it favorable, down 10 points from September, and the lowest rating for either party since Gallup started measuring party favorability in 1992. The Democratic Party is holding fairly steady, with a 43 percent favorable rating, compared with 47 percent last month. Gallup’s three-day rolling average of President Obama’s job approval has him at 44 percent, about the same as when the shutdown began.

The national media are starting to find evidence of collateral damage.
Veterans' Benefits are at Risk.
Federal fuel assistance shut off to tens of thousands of poor and elderly Massachusetts residents just as the heating season gets underway.
New beer brewery applications halted, affecting the creation of new small businesses.
National Parks shut down.  Lost visitors: 715,000 a day.  Lost spending: $76 million a day.  Lost revenue to the federal government, in the form of entrance fees and rentals: $450,000 a day.
Accident investigations halted.
Retail investors’ confidence in financial markets could fall to its lowest levels in seven years if the shutdown persists, even lower than in the midst of the most devastating financial crisis since the great depression.
Federal Bureau of Prisons workers aren't being paid, but about 36,000 of them still have to work.
Product Safety Recalls shut down.

The list goes on and on, this is destroying our country one day at a time.