Food Banks Feed Feds as Congress Funds Foreign Wars
While food banks nationwide expand services for federal workers caught in the latest government shutdown (a recurring feature of American governance), Congress is preparing another round of 'critical' foreign aid. For context: U.S. aid to Israel alone has surpassed $3.8 billion annually for decades, with recent proposals reaching into the tens of billions. These figures dwarf the administrative
costs of averting a shutdown, allowing for a healthy domestic economy, or, you know, feeding the people who actually work for the government. It appears keeping the American civil service solvent is a bipartisan 'luxury', while ensuring a foreign military's arsenal is a bipartisan 'necessity'. One might wonder if the same moral urgency applied to 'vital' aid could somehow trickle down to ensure
federal employees don't need a charity handout to eat. What's a few billion for basic human dignity when there are F-35s to export?