Two problems though: First, the government is already broke. Pres. B.O. already acknowledged this himself.

"SCULLY: Yet, it all takes money. You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?
OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now." (Bottom of Page 4)

The second problem is the same as the example I mentioned above, one day off won't make a difference to the government, just like one day w/o money won't make a difference to the oil companies.

People will need to go to work, purchase items, make transactions, do those things that government feels that it has the need to get its hooks into. The money will eventually start to flow into its coffers.