man, I just wanted no more income taxes.

Originally posted by craigsters:

government shut down, any other bad/good side effects because of it?

If anything "good" happens, I don't think it'll be anything that couldn't have happened while the government was working.

I think they'll reopen before long

Maybe something new will come up, the news doesn’t surprise me at this point.

sure, yeah, whatever
two more weeks i guess

I still not understand how shutdown of gov there exist or why it exist.
Over here we have at worst a demissionair cabinet, that not make new laws but keep "the shop running" untill next elections. but never a shutdown of anything.

Lol thats on top of cutting these programs to the bare minimum, while we bail corporations and rich people out on a weekly basis. Kinda crazy.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/nearly-2-million-young-children-in-the-us-lived-in-food-insecure

In 2023, the most recent data available, 33.6 million adults and 13.8 million children — including nearly 2 million children under 3 years old — lived in food-insecure households, meaning more than 1 in 8 households (13.5 percent) in the U.S. had difficulty acquiring food due to lack of resources.

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Roughly half of the children under age 3 who lived in food-insecure households didn’t experience food insecurity themselves, but the adults in those households were food insecure. Parents often find ways to maintain normal meal patterns for their children, even when they are food insecure themselves; these families often face other challenges as a result of their precarious financial circumstances. And in many households, food insecurity among children is so severe that caregivers report that children were hungry, skipped a meal, or did not eat for a whole day because there was not enough money for food.

Children are especially vulnerable to poverty, financial strain, and hardship. For infants and young children, the lack of access to good nutrition can lead to less favorable life-long outcomes. Caregivers’ struggles paying for food and other bills are linked to worse child outcomes.[3] Material hardship such as the lack of food also increases the risk for child welfare involvement due to neglect and abuse.[4] There is growing awareness among researchers that the consequences of adversity — poverty, abuse or neglect, parental substance use disorder or mental illness, housing instability, and exposure to violence — during the early years of life can extend well beyond childhood and affect people’s physical, mental, and economic well-being as adults.

And they care about the kids and thats why they need to censor the internet. What a laugh.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) delivers more nutrition assistance to low-income children than any other federal program, making it the nation’s largest child nutrition program. In 2024, SNAP helped about 16 million children each month — about 1 in 5 U.S. children — including 2.8 million children under the age of 3.

While SNAP provides only a modest benefit — just $6.20 on average per person per day — it forms a critical foundation for the health and well-being of children in the U.S., lifting millions of families and their children out of poverty and improving food security. Food insecurity among children fell by roughly a third after their families received SNAP benefits for six months, a USDA study found.[7]

Anya in shock induced coma after realizing she won't be able to afford groceries again.

how many of those are really not eligible

and brought us to this point now it hurts the ones who need.

How? They keep pushing the deadline further down the road without fixing it. Why? Because they keep spending money on stupid ♥♥♥♥ like sending 20 billion to Africa every year or patrolling every ocean with carrier fleets at the same time. USA is the world charity police and RnD at the same time. This whole thing is theatrics and they have no shame in printing more money. Now why the show? I don’t know.

Uh huh, and where do you live again?