The hardships of going without a paycheck will be enormous for quite a few people that are- unlike congress- just trying to do their jobs... there is no guarantee that they will ever be paid their missing paychecks when government re-opens... the human toll will be huge.

I was one of the lucky few to be exempt from the last shutdown because my mission was en-route to the moon and I had to ensure the ground terminal was ready for the mission- I had to do major scrambling to get last minute arrangements settled with numerous government agencies before they were impacted by a shutdown.

I have multiple projects that will be delayed for however long this nonsense takes to be resolved-all of them have deadlines to meet that don't change just because congress can't get its act together. Next Friday I was supposed to fly out present some work at Photonics West in San Francisco...

Other projects will be dealt a serious schedule hit- launch windows don't give a damn about politics... my hardships are trivial compared to many others. The shutdown will cost the American taxpayer a lot- not just the loss of access to services, but the cost from the inefficiency of the shutdown and the resources that have to be expended to play catch-up after its over...

And then there are the hundreds of thousands of families that will not get a paycheck until this is over... how many landlords will be understanding about that? There is no guarantee they will EVER be paid those missing paychecks.

All because republicans hate hispanics...