In Shubhankar Rustagi’s article on the government shutdown, I found his take on the issue very interesting as he looked at all the short term causes and effects of the shutdown. Even though the shutdown was short lived, it’s apparent that there have been some lasting impacts across the government. Upon research, I’ve found there are some long term ones as well.

 

 

Firstly, most of the projects in NASA were put off, with some of their facilities shutdown even. Even though the government is now up and running, these projects will still take time to restart. Important projects like those to measure the rate at which the ice sheets in the polar caps was melting have been shutdown.

 

 

Secondly, I found that they had also shutdown their national parks, which have still not been re-opened. These will be continue to be closed till further notice this means that they will be loosing prime tourism money. If this were to continue they would struggle to re-open with the state budget, which has now been reduced for the national parks. But I do believe that his view on the effect his will have on the global economy and the future of the American economy could not be more accurate.

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