i would guess thats because of different methodes used, not because of price. also who cares milk has become incredible long lasting in the fridge anyway.
Also WTF Judges, we were promissed riots...
The contingency fund is around $5-6B for the entire USDA, the department that services SNAP/WIC.
Our current annual budget for these programs is $100B/year. So we have, at best, three weeks’ worth of funds to pay for this program. At that point, the emergency funds are gone and there truly is nothing earmarked to pay for these programs. It will be
done done by then, but I think the mounting pressure and furloughs will see us not making it much past that point.
There’s a bit of a brinksmanship going on. Neither side is willing to budge. GOP aren’t willing to renegotiate the budget and the Dems aren’t willing to sign off on the budget. Both parties are fucking retarded for being so utterly devoted to party lines that it’s hard to not see this whole shut down as the result of petty dipshit squabbling. This itself should be an indictment of the GOP, more than most kiwis are willing to admit. You control the presidency, the house, the senate, AND the Supreme Court. The GOP has literally never, ever been this powerful in modern history. And despite all of this, they still can’t pass a fucking budget.
The GOP may not like it, but their responsibility is to renegotiate with the Dems. If their healthcare plan (no, the Medicaid/are cuts aren’t just going to affect non-citizens) was more than just “privatize and ask questions later”, they’d have more traction. I genuinely think if the GOP put forward a proposal to cut Medicaid to “qualified humanitarian migrants” (ie, the up to 900,000/year “gib entry and free shit” Juan Spics that show up to our border and are admitted), it would be over better. Making citizens be the only Medicaid/are recipients would save a lot of money. But who knows, the Dems like to die on the most retarded hills so who knows if they’d even accept that.
