Yesterday, as I was thinking about personal implications of the fact that November 1 may signal the day to live on in infamy, meaning the day food stamps are no longer available for one in eight people living in the United States, I went into alert mode: “When shopping for groceries, should I always go with another person?”
(Why? In case hungry souls, even desperately hungry souls with starving children, are outside, waiting to grab my food.)
This selfish, and yet, thoroughly understandable attitude, I’m sure, is shared, at least on an unconscious level, by the 87.7% of people in the United States who do not depend on food stamps.
So yes, the past few days I’ve been pondering what may be a stand-off, by the U.S. Congress, as they lie in wait for . . . for what?
For the collective fear to spark civil unrest and more on November 1 if one of our two basic bodily needs, for food and shelter, is in fact denied? Denied by the federal government? I imagine plenty of Democrats (and covertly, RINO Republications) would welcome this, so that they, of course, can “blame Trump.”
Here is where I feel it becomes very obvious that depending on the centralized federal government for any of our human needs is exposed as tyranny.
We humans need to return home, return to our roots, and especially in the realm of growing and sharing food with neighbors and those in need.
I’ve been all too aware of this obvious fact for decades, and view decentralization, localization, as key to solving most of the issues that have spun out of control with the obese, constantly expanding federal government.
And of course it continues to expand. That’s the nature of hierarchical human organizations. At any level, people within it seek to climb the ladder, and they do so by creating more programs that hire more people! So no blame: the geometry of the situation is the issue.
In America, after nearly 200 years of cancerous growth, DOGE started the rollback. And of course, human suffering cannot help but attend the sometimes ruthless shakedown/takedown of people’s jobs that depend in any way, upon the now shrinking federal government. As the DOGE shakedown continues, it expands to include other jobs within our densely interconnected human web. Truckers, farmers, post office workers, small stores, national parks, etc. etc., all suffer.
My own efforts to demonstrate a transformational template for human flourishing in a typical suburban neighborhood have been ongoing for nearly 20 years, starting with buying the house next door (using inheritance from father) and converting its huge side yard into a community garden. At this point, Green Acres Village inside Green Acres Neighborhood includes three homes (the third one I bought eight years ago, using inheritance from mother, and then sold a year ago to Elisha, a community member for many years who then outed herself as an extraordinary garden manager!); so three homes, plus attendant gardens, greenhouse, a common patio for gatherings, and so on.
At this point, Green Acres Permaculture Village is known across Bloomington as a tiny paradise inside Green Acres Neighborhood, attracting visitors from far and wide, with especially its gardens as The Great Attractor. Our bi-weekly Community Dinners are open to all, and include, for newcomers, “the tour,” hoping to inspire others to follow our example, both in Bloomington and beyond. Just imagine: suburbs all over America transforming into food-growing/sharing villages! Why not? What’s stopping us, except for a lack of will and imagination?
See my blog on greenacresvillage.org.
For example this recent post. 50 POUNDS OF PEPPERS, so far, from only 15 plants!
Meanwhile, what this federal standoff has done is expose all sorts of malfeasance, including people “who have no memory of ever paying for food.”
Some who are on food stamps shell out money to get their nails done and other luxuries, or, they actually use their EBT cards to pay for getting nails done! That is no longer allowed. Boo hoo!
Moreover, supposedly 54% of immigrants depend on at least one welfare program. Does that count include illegals? I saw somewhere else, can’t remember where, that only 18% of people receiving food stamps are actually American citizens.
And how’s this for interesting:
And guess what? Walmart depends on its employees being on food stamps.
Some people who get food stamps then trade part of what they get for drugs, on and on. It’s one big hand-out to not just people who truly need it for a certain amount of time, but for all those who desire not to work for their own sustenance on this planet, but instead to rip off U.S. taxpayers to pay for their scam forever.
How’s this for disgusting?
Lots of tiktokers weighing in now; lots who realize that others are too lazy to contribute and so depend on the federal government to keep them alive and parasitic. Here’s a great takedown of lazy folks.
Doomers Michael Snyder and Mike Adams both see the same scenario I’m trying hard not to see.
Meanwhile:
And meanwhile, locally, thanks to Danielle West on facebook:
In sum:
Let’s face it.
