Post Stories of Suffering Caused by the Shutdown

[Seymour Flops]

I'll start:

Barbie Anderson is trying to conserve the milk her three young children drink in case she doesn’t get her WIC benefits on October 15 as scheduled.

Though Anderson and her husband both work, they have depended on the federal food assistance program to stretch out their grocery budget since their older son was born nine years ago. The money is especially important because the prices are very high at the closest supermarket to their rural northern Minnesota home, with a gallon of milk costing more than $5.

The WIC benefits her 3-year-old son receives allow her to purchase oranges and orange juice – which she considers vital to strengthening the children’s immune systems so they don’t have to go to the doctor – and to pick up essential items. It’s the only public assistance the family receives.

“We don’t have the money to buy milk, eggs and everything that the kids need right now,” said Anderson, who works in billing part-time, while her husband works in a lumberyard. “We’ve always struggled, but now we struggle even more to try to make it.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/millions-of-moms-and-young-kids-could-lose-wic-food-assistance-within-two-weeks-amid-shutdown

How long will the cruelty of those who engineered this shutdown last?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I'll start:

Barbie Anderson is trying to conserve the milk her three young children drink in case she doesn’t get her WIC benefits on October 15 as scheduled.

Though Anderson and her husband both work, they have depended on the federal food assistance program to stretch out their grocery budget since their older son was born nine years ago. The money is especially important because the prices are very high at the closest supermarket to their rural northern Minnesota home, with a gallon of milk costing more than $5.

The WIC benefits her 3-year-old son receives allow her to purchase oranges and orange juice – which she considers vital to strengthening the children’s immune systems so they don’t have to go to the doctor – and to pick up essential items. It’s the only public assistance the family receives.

“We don’t have the money to buy milk, eggs and everything that the kids need right now,” said Anderson, who works in billing part-time, while her husband works in a lumberyard. “We’ve always struggled, but now we struggle even more to try to make it.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/millions-of-moms-and-young-kids-could-lose-wic-food-assistance-within-two-weeks-amid-shutdown

How long will the cruelty of those who engineered this shutdown last?

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Do you think there's any amount of damage that Americans could suffer that would change the way they vote?

I will help the people I know who might struggle to get through this, but I don't feel sorry for the pain any democrat goes through as the result of their vote.

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[1srelluc]

I had to descale the coffee maker this morning.....Darn shutdown!

 

[Moonglow]

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I'll start:

Barbie Anderson is trying to conserve the milk her three young children drink in case she doesn’t get her WIC benefits on October 15 as scheduled.

Though Anderson and her husband both work, they have depended on the federal food assistance program to stretch out their grocery budget since their older son was born nine years ago. The money is especially important because the prices are very high at the closest supermarket to their rural northern Minnesota home, with a gallon of milk costing more than $5.

The WIC benefits her 3-year-old son receives allow her to purchase oranges and orange juice – which she considers vital to strengthening the children’s immune systems so they don’t have to go to the doctor – and to pick up essential items. It’s the only public assistance the family receives.

“We don’t have the money to buy milk, eggs and everything that the kids need right now,” said Anderson, who works in billing part-time, while her husband works in a lumberyard. “We’ve always struggled, but now we struggle even more to try to make it.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/millions-of-moms-and-young-kids-could-lose-wic-food-assistance-within-two-weeks-amid-shutdown

How long will the cruelty of those who engineered this shutdown last?

You like giving out welfare now?

 

[Moonglow]

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Do you think there's any amount of damage that Americans could suffer that would change the way they vote?

I will help the people I know who might struggle to get through this, but I don't feel sorry for the pain any democrat goes through as the result of their vote.

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How Christ-like...NOT!!!

 

[Seymour Flops]

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Do you think there's any amount of damage that Americans could suffer that would change the way they vote?

No, and that is a good point.

particularly, they will not change their mind over the shutdown, for a few reasons.

I will help the people I know who might struggle to get through this, but I don't feel sorry for the pain any democrat goes through as the result of their vote.

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As any decent human being, I was concerned when I saw that they will not be able to afford milk and eggs for their children. Then I wondered, since they're both working, what purchases are they prioritizing over feeding their kids?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The Schumer Shutdown is causing hardship. Democrats should vote to open the government. What Democrats are fighting for is to slash the assistance this woman is getting so they can give more to illegals.

 

[1srelluc]

I had to go to the store for more popcorn....Darn shutdown.

 

[Moonglow]

The Schumer Shutdown is causing hardship. Democrats should vote to open the government. What Democrats are fighting for is to slash the assistance this woman is getting so they can give more to illegals.

I see you support welfare also.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I see you support welfare also.

If it means ending assistance, of any kind, to people here illegally, I'm for it.

 

[rightwinger]

President Trump on Sunday told Navy sailors not to “worry about” their paychecks that are being held back by the current government shutdown.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5540015-trump-military-pay-government-shutdown/

 

[EvilCat Breath]

How bad does suffering have to be before democrats open the government? Democrats want Americans to suffer to benefit illegals.

 

[Moonglow]

If it means ending assistance, of any kind, to people here illegally, I'm for it.

But everyone else you like to support with welfare, okay.

 

[Moonglow]

How bad does suffering have to be before democrats open the government? Democrats want Americans to suffer to benefit illegals.

I did get a hangnail.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I did get a hangnail.

You're so high you might have imagined it.

 

[Moonglow]

You're so high you might have imagined it.

Just like thinking you be human.

 

[Hellokitty]

But everyone else you like to support with welfare, okay.

Most people support responsible assistance programs. Flooding the country with illegals who will be 100% dependent on assistance isn't responsible.

 

[Moonglow]

Most people support responsible assistance programs. Flooding the country with illegals who will be 100% dependent on assistance isn't responsible.

That is not what MAGATs say about black people....

 

[Lisa558]

No, and that is a good point.

particularly, they will not change their mind over the shutdown, for a few reasons.

As any decent human being, I was concerned when I saw that they will not be able to afford milk and eggs for their children. Then I wondered, since they're both working, what purchases are they prioritizing over feeding their kids?

I’d like to see their food expenditures, as well. People on food stamps spend a lot of it on sodas and candy. They can cut back on that and allocate more to milk.

 

[Moonglow]

I’d like to see their food expenditures, as well. People on food stamps spend a lot of it on sodas and candy. They can cut back on that and allocate more to milk.

Especially if yer lactose intolerant, eh Karen?