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The impact, the direct impact on gdp should be relatively small, maybe a. 10 or two percent. But its all about confidence. This is simply kicking the can down the road to the january and february deadlines, and well be back in the same situation back down the road. If youre someone looking to buy a house, if youre not directly affected by the shutdown does this whole nonsensedo you hear back from your builders that it does have an impact on people . People say lets sit this out and see what is going on with the economy. It rattles home buyers. We talke talked about the affecn retail sales. Its really about the confidence. The entire economy is waiting on edge waiting to see what will happen. What message can you say to these guys over here to say please can you not do this again in january and february . Can you please get this done. The slow down in Home Building is what cost us more than a million of those jobs that we lost in th ....