Posted on 10/31/2025 4:43:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats want the entire economy to take a hit.
The federal government has been shut down for a month now.
The leftists primarily responsible for it.
The Democrat minority in the U.S. Senate – are hoping that, politically, the pain inflicted by this shutdown will net out to be a political benefit to the Democratic Party.
Will it?
We don’t really know. You don’t find out for sure where the political fallout landed until long after an event is over, when future elections, long term polling results, and the historians have all had their say.
But there are two groups we are expected to look at first:
First, the federal employees. Hundreds of thousands of government employees – not all of them, but a lot of them – are going without paychecks.
Some of them have savings just for this sort of occurrence, so they were ready for it, and they’re confident that in the end, their pay will be restored retroactively. That’s how it’s always been before, after all, though this is a very new and different year.
But what of the others – the hundreds of thousands of government employees who didn’t have savings to cover such a long shutdown, who can certainly handle food bills for a few weeks but are now falling behind on rent or mortgage, car loans and insurance, utilities and tuition? Every day that goes by gets rougher for them.
And second, the people on assistance – people dependent on SNAP cards and other federal largesse in what’s generally referred to as “the safety net” of our massive welfare state. As food stamps go unreplenished, and housing, cellphones, cable, and other dependencies of all kinds go unfunded, there are millions of recipients getting more worried by the hour.
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Gasoline, milk and eggs are only a portion of the puzzle and really have not dropped all that much, in fact many other items went up certainly not to pre-Biden days..but they have dropped some.
What is happening is the defense of the last DNC redoubt. The futile attempt to gain by negotiating to return what was lost in the Congress is doomed to failure.
Fighting to the last man has been ordered. The question now is the last man really willing to die
Beans and rice and cornmeal do not require refrigeration
Some more than 4000...as they are on UTube bragging.
Very true as these SNAP people are in fact Wards of the State.
“Good Evening, BRIAN GRIFFIN
Oct 22 2025
CMS MEDICARE PREMIUMS WEB
Amount: negative five hundred fifty five dollars– $555.00
Running Balance: two hundred ninety five dollars and eighty three cents$295.83”
That’s $185/month (regardless of my <<100% of FPL income), over $2,200/year, for no care whatsoever so far, two years in.
Democrats loved canceling Thanksgiving for Covid. They hate family traditions.If republicans win every election next week the shutdown will end.
yams 78¢/pound
bananas 54¢/pound
apples, Gala $2.98/3#
avocados ~$1.80/pound
GV corn, 15.25 oz. can, $.50
GV green beans, 14.25 oz. can, $.50
GV French style green beans, 14.25 oz. can, $.50
GV parboiled rice, 32 oz., $1.64
GV split peas, dried, 16 oz., $1.42
GV lentils, dried, 16 oz., $1.92
GV lentils, dried, 64 oz., $5.98
GV blackeye peas, dried, 16 oz., $1.66
GV black beans, dried, 16 oz., $1.50
GV kidney beans, dried, 16 oz., $1.22
GV lima beans, dried, 16 oz., $1.98
GV baby lima beans, dried, 16 oz., $1.98
GV red beans, dried, 16 oz., $1.42
GV Great Northern beans, dried, 16 oz., $1.87
Honey Nut Os cereal, 21.6 oz., $3.12
Toasted Os cereal, 12 oz., $1.83
Kellogg’s Raisin Bran, 29.5 oz., $5.64
Aldi Corn Flakes, 18 oz., $2.19
GV pasta, 16 oz., 98¢
GV pasta sauce, 24 oz., $1.67
6” white corn tortillas, 80 count, $2.97
Tyson chicken, whole $1.46/pound
Tyson chicken, thighs $1.77/pound
Note for $28 (the weekly $2/day amount for two people), one can buy:
two pounds of chicken for ~$5,
four pounds of pasta for ~$4,
seven cans of vegetables for ~$5,
a gallon of milk for ~$3,
two loaves of bread for ~$3, and
a box of cereal (or a bag of fruit) for ~$3,
and still have ~$5 left over for say buying
a 10-pound bag of potatoes one week, or
a bag of sugar and 100 tea bags another week, or
a pound of butter and two boxes of store brand macaroni & cheese another week, or
12 eggs and two boxes of cake mix yet another week.
The American federal government, the most indebted entity on the planet, should NOT continue to function as a charity. The looting of the United States of America through the federal government needs to end.
A friend told me of a “TikTok Influencer” who has 6 kids, a BMW and Range Rover, and gets $10,000 per month.
“double”
Steak Dinner
$1, Cafe Biden
$2.14, Cafe Trump
NOTE: That’s indicative of PPACA subsidy discounts, on average
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My American dentist pays $1600/month for health insurance
There are millions of Democrats getting PPACA health insurance for $0/month
“This is the Trump economy”
No this is the after effects of 4 years of the Biden insanity. If it was not for all the things Trump is rapidly deploying we would be in much worse shape.
Less people --> less demand for food --> lower food prices.
Less govt subsidy of food (or anything else) --> less artificial inflation of prices at the register to take in more of that govt money.
Just like everything else the govt subsidizes to "help" us with, those of us who don't get the subsidy (SNAP) have to pay the higher prices that were inflated to take in that guaranteed govt money from other consumers.
Price of groceries or anything rarely goes down.
A percentage have been deported but still a tremendous amount are still here...and will remind as it is a numbers vs time game.
Govt subsidies are a generational thing and not likely to stop till certain hard stops are put in place. Your crime levels will go up for many things...
There are people hurting because of the government shut down. Overwhelmingly those people are democrats. They are overwhelmingly illegals, government employees and people one government services (handouts).
Republicans (the rest of us) who are not getting freebees from the government are not interested in a deal. We will be very very mad at Trump if he reopens the government. Especially if he spends even one dime to do it. We are the ones who voted for Trump because the government is spending too much money. We don’t want a balanced budget. We want a smaller budget. We don’t want to grow the government revenues. We want to shrink the government expenses. We don’t believe for one minute that the government is spending money wisely. We believe the government has far more money than it needs to provide all the services necessary for a first rate country. We have enough money for the military and the social programs if the money was spent wisely.
So Trump will lose if he reopens the government with a good deal. We want no deal if it means more spending. We are happy with the government being closed. And those people complaining are democrats.
I respectfully disagree. There's talk. Then there's reality. Do we have historical precedent? Yup. Remember the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act? That was the last year of Clinton's first term, Congressional Republicans' Contract with America (New Gingrich) had won the midterms, pressuring Clinton to cut spending, using a shutdown, to agree to add work requirements to welfare. Dims every now and then bring up this era as "when Bill Clinton balanced the budget".
So what happened with crime occurrences after the 1996 bill was passed and reduced welfare? According to https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm:
Year / Total Crimes
1996 13,493,863 (the year the act was passed)
1997 13,194,571
1998 12,475,634
1999 11,634,378
2000 11,608,072
Crime activity didn't rise. It declined.
The more concerning thing is how massive the government has become, and how many leeches it has created. Welfare leeches in the corporate world, the non working generational welfare leeches crowd, the bureaucratic leech crowd. I don’t get anything from the government but a tax bill. The government shut my business down for kung flu. So I say SCREW EM. I don’t care. I don’t feel the least bit bad for anyone losing money. Not a one.
The message & the evidence about the Democrat disregard for the welfare of America needs to shouted long & loud. They worry about illegals more than Americans & this is all wrong. If one had to apply for an American license to stay here, I’d say there could be several of those licenses that could be revoked today.
Never had Welfare cut off either so take that into account.
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