Food assistance ends today for so many people. In our very red county, a massive number of people rely on Snap assistance. Like nearly 10,000 people. Almost half of those are in Sweet Home.
I qualify, but after some very bad experiences long ago, I no longer get food assistance from Snap. I gave it up. For one person, its not that difficult to afford food if a person is willing to eat whatever they can find. For families with kids, especially teens, it has to be quite difficult.
When I go to the store, I just stare at the food prices now. They're unbelievably high. I ran to the store last night, to look for a bag of candy as I saw so many kids out trick or treating. But I ended up in a lengthy conversation with a vet tech who is also a veteran, who had stories to tell and a very cute dog, who wanted to lick my hands.
By the time I got home, with two cases of cat food and the bag of candy, it was after dark and only three groups of kids came by. I love to see the kids' costumes.
I'm short on wet food, after all the trapping and the week of feeding all those places. It's so expensive these days. It's difficult to keep up on all the expenses.
I take the two adults in the garage, Abby and Slabbo, to Salem to hand them off to Silverton Cat barn team. It could be a challenge to seperate out the two teens from the adults. But after Abby and Slabbo go, I'll just have the two brothers. Meeko, the latest I trapped, will get fixed Monday. SCR is going to find a barn home for them too.
After I take the adults to Salem, I'll be back at the trailer park here in town, to set traps for the two not yet caught there. Trouble is, a couple neighbors are sort of warring over the cats, who feeds them, who doesn't, its a little bit crazy. I try to remain neutral, like Switzerland, to get it done.
It's kind of sad, what's going on here, with the government. Besides Snap food assistance being cut, as a result of the shutdown, the Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies are in danger. Trumps budget calls for an end to them and that is why the democrats are hold outs on passing a fund the government resolution in hopes the Republicans will remove the subsidy cuts from the budget.
But, the rates for thousands if not millions of Americans are about to skyrocket, double per month or more, which will cause even more pain and suffering. All this is self inflicted, by our current government. A lot of the people on Snap actually work full time, but at jobs that pay very little. The number of people using Snap and also Medicaid that work at Walmart or McDonalds for instance is ridiculously high, meaning taxpayers are subsidizing billionaires who own these companies while simultaneiously humiliating and judging their workers as leeches. Who are the real leeches? Ha! We all know the answer to that one.
List of some of the companies whose employees must rely on Snap and Medicaid.
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