A Real Shutdown would make our lives easier, we'll rid ourselves of that Woolly Mammoth without the Charm known as the American Empire and the Welfare Warfare State. The US Taxpayers and Consumers would get that Money back and wouldn't have to pay for it anymore.
How to correctly squander your Wealth;
• Send your Sons and Daughters off to fight appallingly Ignorant and profoundly Incompetent Wars for Oil, Wars of Aggression, Wars of Attrition, and Wars of Subsidization that Political Indentured Servants nor THEIR Corporate paymasters, Corporate Friends, and Family never fight nor ever send their Families to fight...
• Continue to be forced to pay Taxes, pledge Allegiance, and a Phony Patriotism to the same US Government who cares nothing of your Posterity but forces you to pay for your own Austerity...
• Blindly trust the Federal Reserve who caused the Inflation we have now by Inflating the Money Supply, who also financed the 2008 Corporate Bailouts to Foreign and Corporate Banks, Foreign Governments, and Corporate Stimulus Packages to the tune of $15+ Trillion Dollars but cannot get rid of Inflation nor Artificially Low Interest Rates within our own Borders...
• Blindly trust the US Government with the servicing of Healthcare, Education, and Future Retirements when this same Monstrosity cannot manage Sound Money, Balance its own Checkbook, nor Secure its own Borders...
Promises are always a comfort to baffling Fools, After all, Your US Congress made them...