It's quite clear that the cost of shutting down and starting up government exceeds the benefits to the goals that the shutdown seeks to further. It's posturing that robs me of a functioning government - that I paid for with my taxes - for matters large and small. The quiet background research work that no private company would pay for. The ongoing monitoring of - of lots of things - water tables, volcanoes, superfund sites, infrastructure safety, and more, and more. Because it's not in plain view, we can pretend that "oh, it doesn't matter. I don't feel a thing from a shutdown." But it DOES matter, and now we see the timetable. About one month before small disasters start breaking out, then larger.
Let's ask our legislators to take this tactic off the table; or, failing that, that they put themselves and their staff on the front lines. No government shutdowns without Congress and the White House - and their staffs - losing paychecks immediately. (Many congressfolk are wealthy and wouldn't feel it - but their staff would not be quite so immune.)