U.S. President Joe Biden and one of his top aides warned on Monday that a federal government shutdown could cause widespread suffering, including a rapid loss of food benefits for nearly 7 million low-income women and children.
Biden told a meeting on Historically Black Colleges and Universities that failure by Congress to fund the federal government would have dire consequences for the Black community, including by reducing nutritional benefits, inspections of hazardous waste sites and enforcement of fair housing laws.
He said he and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had agreed a few months ago on spending levels for the government.
“We made a deal, we shook hands,” he said. “Now a small group of extreme House Republicans … don’t want to live up to that deal, and everyone in America could be faced with paying the price for it.”
This will just encourage the Freedom Caucus, because finally they would be hurting the correct people.
hunger for millions
GOP: That’s my fetish!
They started with starving kids of their school lunches. Now for bigger ambitions.
Republicans don’t care until they, themselves, start missing meals.
Even when starving, they’ll still find a way to blame democrats, cognitive dissonance be damned.
Remember: without exception, every single society and government on the face of the planet is 9 meals away from total anarchy.
Unfortunately, like filibusters, government shutdowns are a Pandora’s box. Once they’ve been used as a negotiating tactic once, you can never un-use them.
That’s not to say this isn’t despicable, but unless there’s bipartisan support to change the process, we’re going to see government shutdowns every time there’s disagreement over funding.
Eat the Republicans first
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Many didn’t. At times it got so bad they turned to violence against the wealthy. That’s a decent portion of why the government has handouts actually. Bread and circuses is a very famous and long-standing technique to prevent open rebellion for a reason.
They died. People died. A lot. From hunger.
They used to be allowed to gather and sow all over. The government has made that illegal.
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You have to be joking.
No it’s not
Subsistence farming. However:
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Farming blows
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If everyone has to farm then no one can specialize to do other things
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If you think the USA is a car-dependent sprawl that’s terrible for the environment currently, wait until literally everyone has enough land to sustain themselves and requires infrastructure to connect it all
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