I'm retired military, and get government check, but the appropriation that pays for it was passed last year by Congress, so I'm good. Apparently, funds for VA and retirement pay are appropriated by Congress a year in advance, so a shutdown doesn't turn them off.

I did go to the grocery store a couple of days ago, and loaded up on groceries, in case the dindu leeches decide to make good on their threats to loot stores. My local regional grocery store has a lot of ethnic foods in it, asian and hispanic, so it gets lots of illegals (I'm in WA) that use EBT cards.

It will be interesting to see what happens next week when those cards don't work...