As we write this, the U.S. enters it's second day of a federal government shutdown.
In Michigan, according to the state budget director, fully 40% of the state budget is federal dollars.
I want to repeat that: 40% of the state budget is federal dollars. This, in a state with a Republican/Tea Party dominated legislature, and a Republican governor. This is the same governor who was conspicuously ungracious in his lack of acknowledgement of President Obama at a recent news conference, where it was announced with much fanfare, that the President insisted the Federal government support Detroit's recovery with $300 Million in old and new federal funding.
Michigan's budget director estimates that Michigan is losing $18 Million per day, every day of the shutdown. So far, 900 federal workers in Michigan have been furloughed. The complete story is at the link:
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/10/government_shutdown_costing_mi.html
A complete discussion of the impact of the shutdown, as well as a breakdown state by state, is included in this article from the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/government-shutdown-damage_n_4031714.html?ir=Politics&utm_campaign=100313&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-politics&utm_content=Title
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