The eleventh day of the eleventh month, marking the armistice that ended the Great War. Today, we call it Veterans Day.
I see that the Senate yesterday voted to end the shutdown. Eight Democrats joined Republicans to put it over the finish line. Tomorrow the House should vote and send it over to the White House. Presumably, the troops will get paid and the Pore N' Starvin will get their food stamps.
That is a good thing, I reckon. Although I have seen over the past few days, a number of the perennially broke types posting reels on Facebook and YouTube, complaining about not having food on the table. Only in America can someone post on the internet about such things while enjoying ownership of a smartphone. It's supposed to be Supplemental Nutrition, not the primary plan. To my mind, SHAP should be limited to basic food. Dry beans, salt pork, flour, sugar and cornmeal. A box of milk powder. Stuff like that. I understand that the US has huge stocks of cheese in underground caverns. Let 'em eat cheese.
Later today I'm going to put on a pound of dry beans to make Red beans and rice for tomorrow. I'm not too good to eat red bens.
Old Texas Expression - "She was raised on backstrap and red beans". Humble food CAN still be delicious ! I enjoy red beans on a bed of rice.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not disagreeing with your thoughts in the third paragraph. My only question is how do you separate the married unior enlisted who's barely getting by on a good pay day. Cutting off pay for that type of American should justify at least a long horse whipping.
I also think that Congress should try and figure out how the "other" group who don't have a job yet live off of the dole should be "encouraged" to get a job. No job, no free money, end of story..
Neither of my wishes is likely to occur, But I got it off my chest.
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The only thing SAP should buy is the crap that Michele forced school kids to eat.
ReplyDeleteI was at Super 1 the other day, and a woman was checking out in front of me. She paid for a lot of her stuff with an EBT card. And it wasn't beans, rice, veggies, etc. It was mostly "junk" food, or prepared food. And she was rather...large.
ReplyDeleteFunny how so many of America's "po & starvin' " are badly overweight.....
https://allthatsinteresting.com/government-cheese-caves
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