U.S. Government shuts down.

[Jester]

A bit of both I guess. Part of the statement was tongue in cheek since there are obviously some sects of the proletariat that probably think congress is ok, but effectively speaking, the 10% richest have more vestiges of interest in the status quo than the rest of us.

But this isn't the status quo. The status quo involves a functioning government, and certainly no threat that the world's largest economy is going to default on its sovereign debt (for absolutely no reason except political gridlock).

Who on earth is winning from this mess? The Russians? Anarcho-nihilists? Rand Paul?

-Jester