One good question is if the government had the ability all along to shut us out of these sites so easily what took them so long to do it? I really can't figure out their mindset.

This country is in a financial trouble big time, so instead of making poker legal on the internet like it already is in the rest of the world they shut it down.

The end result is that many people will loose very badly needed income, many people will be forced to break the law and go to illegal cardrooms because they don't live near any legal ones. A lot more $$$ will have to be spent on gasoline to get to a poker room making foreign sources even richer and taking that money out of our economy. A lot of people that can't get around will have to give up the game they love and occupies much of their other wise boring life.

I saw a good video on Youtube about Black Friday... - YouTube - Internet Poker Ban, "Poker's Black Friday" 4-15-2011 Poker Funeral

The government didn't shut US out of the sites, the sites are the one turning away the US.