The DNC needs to be shouting from rooftops about this in Virginia. Republicans at the federal level are about to withhold your lifeline. Voice your disapproval at the ballot box next week and put Democrats in at the state level so that you can get some help from the state when the federal fails you.
A lot of this state is not Nova and Richmond. There will be a lot of pain from this in many rural communities, and it’s important to get the messaging out asap. And I’m sure Virginia isn’t the only state that does odd year state elections, but this one should be easy to swing blue.
And this is why you can’t rely on anyone to feed you. Also why you shouldn’t max out your SNAP balance. Always keep a 1-2 month buffer saved up when the government decides to wear diapers rather than acting like grown ups with people on their watch like this
It sounds like you don’t seem to understand how poverty works. Either you have no lived experience of it, or you do, but you’ve internalised the notion that it’s possible to pull oneself out of poverty by the bootstraps — possibly because it’s more comforting to think this than to reckon with how many of us are just a few strokes of bad luck away from poverty.
Often poverty is entrenched precisely because many people don’t have a choice about whether to keep a 1-2 month buffer of resources. Social safety nets exist not just out of compassion, but because a society becomes better when people who are struggling don’t have to worry about how they’re going to feed themselves.
Place the blame where it is due: the maliciously incompetent legislators who see poor people going hungry as a feature, not a bug.
Red states are going to lose their minds…and food.
Most likely, yes. I wonder how they’ll spin it into being the fault of Democrats.
It won’t be hard given they’re constantly claiming it’s the Democrats fault for the shutdown.
This is not a partisan effect.
The partisan effect is everyone blue already gets the game. We need the moron reds who vote to screw themselves over to be just as angry, and this could help
It sounds like Colorado is going to try to cover the shortfall from state funding. I wonder what other states will be able to.
Colorado has the benefit of wiggle room stemming from the whole TABOR refund thing. Normally they refund several hundred dollars per year to all residents of the state in unspent tax money. This year those refunds are expected to only be around $20 per person, and then are expected to drop to nothing at all for the foreseeable future.
So while Colorado can handle this type of thing once, it also means that we are blowing our safety net in a fairly permanent way. With little means to make up for it either, as the TABOR laws make it quite difficult for the state to raise taxes when necessary.
Its a system that was fairly well designed in some ways, at least for a world where shit was stable. But in the new normal of ridiculousness and unexpected costs it is probably going to bite the state in the ass pretty hard. Its just going to be a delayed effect
