[gundog]

Sounds like a potential nightmare if EBT goes down. I need to start asking if the cashiers have any half dollars. The Great Recession flushed a lot of those into circulation...some of them silver.

Fuel is the key, and the vermin in government know it. A hundred years ago, people weren’t nearly as mobile. Now, society is geared around individual mobility. We’re very vulnerable to control. And predation.

[Jamestown1630]

Despite what a lot of people seem to think, many of the elderly Black people in the DC area live on pensions they’ve earned through hard work, and they husband their resources well.

But their incomes are fixed. Things are becoming hard on them, and will probably get worse.

And that’s true about a lot of White elderly, too.