This is in reference to the U.S. Department of Agriculture letter that advised state agencies to hold disbursements of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for November. T
Their game is unknowable but is probably a lever to pressure Senate Democrats to vote to take on the so called clean continuing resolution to open the federal government. And probably a pain point to get those who are hungry and in need of SNAP to reach out to their representatives and beg them to open the government by passing the CR.
Diabolical in’t it?
That’s what they want. A reason to rat out the democrats to the voters for not doing enough to help those who are hurting.
I hope that people see through this charade.
Especially the ones that this hurts.
Especially as we hear that the government is giving now $40 BILLION dollars to Argentina to prop up their collapsing currency. Perhaps the attention should be on the United States economy and declining dollar. Just a thought.
According to the letter, the money exists in the USDA but the states are not allowed to spend it. The states are not allowed to give it out to the people who are on SNAP.
Instead those affected have to go to food banks, which are already stretched so so thin because of the economy in this country.
It is giving holding out bread to a starving person and then snatching it away and grinding it into the mud. That they then shove the starving person into.
It is giving Old Mother Hubbard with the empty cupboard to give the dog a bone. But she knows full well there is a second, secret cupboard for her own use and she hoards the contents. Even if the dog is hungry.
And shades of the Soup Nazi.
Full disclosure, I have never ever ever seen Seinfeld. I worked evenings/nights through the 1990s after I graduated from high school. I have only heard of it as a bit.
I direct those who are using this moment to make people hungry to Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
And remember the name Jean Valjean. His prisoner number was 24601.
His only crime was that he stole a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s child, who was close to death from starvation. He received 5 years hard labor for that crime and 14 additional years hard labor because he tried to run.
I feel a relisten/rewatch of Les Mis is in order.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 