The government shutdown by the GOP constitutes gross malfeasance. This needless action has placed 800,000 federal employees on indefinite furlough without pay. It is the responsibility of Congress to pass a budget and keep our government funded. They have utterly failed to do this, so they should have their pay suspended until they are able to do their job. NO BUDGET, NO PAY!

The American people are suffering from loss of pay and the unavailability of federal institutions. If other federal employees lose their pay, so should the Congressmen who made this choice.

My house is falling apart and my taxes are too high to afford, even though my husband and I both work. I have a friend who doesn't have health insurance and is worried daily about getting sick. We need to stand up to big money, and the politicians who are holding the government ransom, and get back to what this country is about--the people.

The working class always has to suffer when Congress is too selfish to compromise over government spending. They work for US! When they allow a government shutdown, or make any other decision causing hardworking Americans to suffer, they too should suffer and not get paid.

To ensure lawmakers share the pain they inflict upon their constituents in the hope that they'll think twice before doing so in the future.

Incentivize Congress to compromise to pass budgets on time and save money while helping our elected officials better relate to the daily stresses of their constituents.

We the people don't control anything anymore: not our banks, not our privacy, not our food systems, not our education. This is the example of "democracy" that we're setting for the world to follow. Join me in petitioning Congress to take up a bill that enables the people who elected them to recall wayward Congressmen and hold them accountable to the job they were elected to do.

They fuss and argue about anything that helps the middle class and the masses. They mismanage funds, push their dirt under the rug and they all deserve to make minimum wages and get the same healthcare the masses have.

Congress and the POTUS claim they have American's best interests at heart. Please put your money where your mouth is.

Congress and the POTUS claim They have American's best interests at heart. Please put your money where your mouth is.

The economy of the country is being held hostage by a few Congressmen, who have failed to do their jobs. Let them feel the pinch of their own folly. If they force a shutdown, they receive no salaries until the issue is resolved.

John Boehner and the Tea Party anarchists act like taxation and government are inherently bad. They are not – taxation is the price of civilization – and we must have government in order to have an orderly society: roads and schools and Social Security and Medicare and safe vehicles and clean air and clean water and safe food and much more. Instead of holding the country hostage, Boehner and the Tea Party gang need to get a heart transplant. Maybe if they had a heart they’d care about somebody besides themselves and the Koch brothers, the evil duo which provides most of the money for the Tea Party. They don’t care about the unproductive work our government workers had to do to prepare for the shutdown, the money that wasted, or about the inconvenience to millions of Americans. They don’t care if the pay which thousands of competent, dedicated government workers and their families depend on is delayed. They don’t even care if the shutdown derails our fragile economic recovery! Even if John Boehner and the Tea Party gang change their strategy and let the government re-open, they have plans to pull the same kind of shenanigan again in a couple of weeks, using the debt ceiling to once again hold the country hostage. After their Tea Party shutdown and shakedown is over and our government workers go back to work, Washington-watchers believe Boehner and the Tea Party extremists will even refuse to pay the workers for the time they were shut out by the shutdown. They don’t care about anybody but themselves and their selfish funders and, oh, trying to make Obama look bad. Let’s send them a clear message: “You shut the government down, so we will shut you out in the 2014 election. We have a memory like an elephant, and we’ll stampede you.”