ORWELLIAN? USA Today Shutdown Clock counts money not being spent on government as a “cost” of the shutdown.

Related: Nick Gillespie: Shutdown Highlights Basic Fact: Most of Government is ‘Non-Essential.’ “The shutdown provides the country with a perfect moment to ask why a federal government whose spending habits are an insult to drunken sailors everywhere is paying above-market compensation to hundreds of thousands of ‘non-essential’ workers.”