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As shutdown drags on, federal workers flock to food pantries
CBS "News" ^ | January 15, 2019 | By Megan Cerullo (D-CBS)

Posted on 01/15/2019 11:06:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: IamConservative
Amazing how many people that live so close to the edge financially.

Even more amazing how much Big Media lies to us about practically EVERYTHING.

61 posted on 01/15/2019 2:48:20 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: subterfuge

The article said many had their last check in December, nearly a month ago.


62 posted on 01/15/2019 2:55:55 PM PST by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These federal workers had plenty of warning to put all the food they needed into their homes.

They didn’t bother. Now a few weeks later they want me to feel sorry for them.

fIdiots.


63 posted on 01/15/2019 3:58:22 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: DungeonMaster
Too many people either live paycheck to paycheck or are portrayed as having to do that.

I'll confess to having not enough sympathy for anyone who chooses to live that way, especially after knowing some people who manage to live responsibly on limited income. (Know anyone with unlimited income? Yeah, neither do I. ;)

Responsible adults live beneath their means, setting aside some funds to prepare for unforeseen "rainy day" situations. (And for any "nonessential" federal employees, this was far from unforeseen, as it's always been a matter of when, not if.)

Sure, there will be some federal employees who, through no fault of their own, find themselves struggling after missing one or two paychecks (e.g. their savings were recently consumed in a catastrophe). But they are very few and very far between. The rest are only reaping what they sowed, the consequences of their own poor choices.

I remain confident that most of America knows this to be true, despite the propaganda campaigns promoted by the Left.

64 posted on 01/22/2019 1:30:18 PM PST by newgeezer ("... it is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed." - Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1824)
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To: DungeonMaster

Too many people either live paycheck to paycheck or are portrayed as having to do that.


Portrayed? Sounds like basing culpability on the seriousness of the charge.

You can portray in one hand and .... well, you know the rest.


65 posted on 01/22/2019 1:42:56 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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