Government Shutdown - A Question

 Visa and passport applications from almost half a million prospective travelers would sit untouched every week, and late tax filers facing an Oct. 15 deadline would find the phone lines at the Internal Revenue Service dead. The National Zoo and museums on the Mall would close to the public. The WIC program, which provides food to 8.9 million low-income women and children, would be out of money, its supporters say.
And in the District, garbage could go uncollected.

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Federal shutdowns in the 1990s: Federal shutdowns in 1995 and 1996 closed government offices, parks and museums, and caused several hundred thousand workers to be furloughed.

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Here's what some agencies have said about their specific plans in case of a government shutdown.

This is, in part, what a government shutdown would look like.

Source:washingtonpost.com 
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Sometimes the U.S. government's budget is compared to a household budget.
In a household budget before you stopped paying; rent, the electric bill, the gas or heating bill, your internet provider, etc. wouldn't you stop handing out money to charities (no matter how deserving) first?

Here's the question: Does the U.S. government stop handing out money to other countries before cutting all of these domestic services?
Do we stop funding the rebels (Al Qaeda) in Syria's civil war?
Do we stop giving;
Egypt - $1,687,982,000
Iraq - $2,339,960,000
Pakistan - $1,876,495,000
Afghanistan - $3,483,875,000
BTW- That is for just one year, FY2013.
Source:foreignassistance.gov
 

Maybe it's just me, but I think we should stop every dollar of foreign aid before we ever cut any U.S. domestic services.