“People in this country will go hungry”
Oh hey, Trump and the Trumplings didn’t realize that the government shutdown would actually do harm, and now they’re scrambling to figure out how they’re supposed to be doing their jobs.
Food stamps for 38 million low-income Americans would face severe reductions and more than $140 billion in tax refunds are at risk of being frozen or delayed if the government shutdown stretches into February, widespread disruptions that threaten to hurt the economy.
The Trump administration, which had not anticipated a long-term shutdown, recognized only this week the breadth of the potential impact, several senior administration officials said. The officials said they were focused now on understanding the scope of the consequences and determining whether there is anything they can do to intervene.
Well thank god they didn’t bother to figure that out before they shut it down.
The potential cuts to food stamps and suspension of tax refunds illustrate the compounding consequences of leaving large parts of the federal government unfunded indefinitely — a scenario that became more likely Friday when President Trump said he would leave the government shut down for months or even years unless Democrats gave him money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Oh well. It’s only poor people not being able to eat, so who cares, right?
“People in this country will go hungry,” said Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.). “It’s simple. They go hungry. . . . These are working people. We’re not talking about people who are dogging it.”
The disruption would hurt not only the families that receive the assistance but also grocers and other retailers where the money is spent.
But it won’t touch people who build gaudy condo towers, so that’s ok then.
Yeah, it’s a tricky one. Who on Earth could think of a way of solving this seemingly impossible conundrum?
I’m racking my brains, I simply can’t think of a thing.
It’s almost like there’s a solution here, a person who can apply that solution there, but some kind of Wall in between the two. I just cannot see the wood for Wall.
Not just the grocers – the farmers. A lot of whom are Trump voters. Our local paper has already been carrying a lot of articles letting farmers know just how grim it could get. It would be wonderful schadenfreude if it wasn’t for the fact that many people could starve and die. I could not enjoy watching Trump voters squirm in that situation. It could get ugly.
And you have to wonder how Trump could get this far without any of them being aware. Even though his advisors are only marginally better than he is at elementary comprehension, there are surely at least some Republican senators who are aware of the potential devastation….even though I’m sure Fox News isn’t worried about it.
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I would not be surprised if those Fox-fed farmers blamed Dems. And I worry that Dems will revert to their historic trend of giving in.
Holms, they might, but our local paper sure isn’t. They’ve played it safe (the newspaper) through most of the administration so far, but they’ve started to stick their head up over the parapet and at least try to tell the truth without sugar coating from time to time.
Here’s the kicker; Trump has shut down the government over an idea that originated not from him but from Roger Stone, who needed a mnemonic to keep Trump focused on immigration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/01/04/where-the-idea-for-donald-trumps-wall-came-from/?fbclid=IwAR1MlCOiIza2vfOFOiZ-H9F4szNaBfm71VZP2SfioqX2ghINtfMKRKBNrYs#a122d7344156
H/T Ed Brayton.