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Friday Night Quirky Pop Jam: Margaret Glaspy, "Emotions and Math"

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷12/29/2018 1:40:21 pm PST

re: #384 dangerman

2015…maybe

by now you cant not know
head in the sand or not just not paying attention is willful

For example, this article on USDA programs and many others which won’t be paid in my regional paper.

Shutdown could affect federal farm aid payments (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

The problem is not “people having their heads in the sand.” The problem is fifty years of Republicans training voters to believe “both sides are equally bad” or “Democrats are bad.” Propaganda is a helluva drug. (This doesn’t just apply to Democrats and Republicans, see also religion.)

Beyond the FSA, several other USDA agencies, including meat, poultry and grain inspectors along with import and export inspectors, have continued to work without pay. Other offices, such as the National Agriculture Statistics Service, have shuttered their doors, furloughed employees and delayed releasing scheduled reports until funding is re-established.

Households who receive monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (also known as food stamps) will still receive benefits for January. Most other domestic nutrition assistance programs, such as the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, WIC and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, will continue to operate at the state and local level with any funding and commodity resources that remain available. Additional federal funds and commodities will not be provided during the shutdown.

Child Nutrition programs, including School Lunch, School Breakfast, Child and Adult Care Feeding, Summer Food Service and Special Milk will continue operations into February.

However, payout of farm loans, disaster payments and other forms of farm aid will likely cease until after the government reopens.

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