Is Our Safety Net Failing Its Own Citizens While Politics Plays Chicken?
Written by Peter Boykin on October 29, 2025
Is Our Safety Net Failing Its Own Citizens While Politics Plays Chicken?
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Is Our Safety Net Failing Its Own Citizens While Politics Plays Chicken?
America Can Feed the World… But Not Its Own Citizens
A Nation on Pause
A mother in Pennsylvania checks her phone every morning for an update from her state’s food assistance office. Normally, she receives her SNAP benefits right on time. Now, she gets a message that they might not come at all. Her cart is half empty, and the same federal government that took her taxes when she worked now says it cannot afford to feed her kids.
This is not a partisan sob story. It is a warning.
The United States government remains shut down. Agencies are closed, workers are furloughed, and forty-two million Americans face the real possibility that their food benefits will disappear overnight. This is the second-longest shutdown in United States history, and the system that many citizens depend on for basic nutrition is teetering.
But the real question is not who to blame. It is why nothing is moving forward.
What Is Really Holding Up the System
This shutdown did not begin because of one person. It began because Congress failed to do its job. Lawmakers never passed the funding bills required to keep the government operating. The USDA says it cannot legally release November SNAP benefits without an appropriation.
Contingency funds that could temporarily extend the program exist, but the department says they are reserved for natural disasters. Politicians can find billions for foreign wars, but not to feed citizens in their own country.
The holdup is not about Trump, Biden, or any single figure. It is about a legislative branch that has turned budgeting into a game of political chicken where the prize is blame and the losers are the American people.
Who Gets Hurt When Washington Fails
Forty-two million Americans rely on SNAP every month. That is one in eight citizens, and most of them are children, the elderly, or working poor families who pay taxes and still struggle to survive.
If the shutdown continues, states will not have the authority to issue new benefits. Families will run out of food. Local food banks will flood with demand. Grocery stores in low-income communities will take another hit.
And through it all, cable news networks will keep asking the wrong question: “Who’s winning?”
There are no winners in a government that starves its citizens through gridlock.
Fear, Politics, and the Election Season Circus
While this shutdown paralyzes the nation, local elections are already being used to weaponize the fear. Municipal races across the country are seeing Democrat messaging that paints this crisis as another “Republican shutdown.”
It is a convenient distraction. The same politicians who overloaded our welfare system with non-citizens now want to pretend they are the protectors of the poor. They demand free healthcare, Medicare, and food stamps for illegal immigrants while ignoring the American citizens standing in line at empty pantries.
This is not compassion. It is manipulation. And it is timed perfectly for off-season elections, where fear drives turnout better than facts.
The Conservative Blind Spot
Some of my fellow Republicans are celebrating this shutdown as a moral victory. They say cutting off food stamps teaches responsibility or saves taxpayer dollars.
That is short-sighted and wrong.
Welfare is not a left or right issue. It is a moral one. If we live in the wealthiest nation on earth and cannot provide basic clothing, food, shelter, and medicine to our legal citizens, then we have lost sight of what our Constitutional Republic stands for.
I am not calling for socialism or government dependence. I am calling for responsibility. We cannot let partisan pride blind us to suffering, nor allow bureaucracy to excuse neglect. A nation that cannot feed its own people cannot lead the free world.
Starving the Republic – How Both Parties Are Failing the People
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Now let me speak directly and clearly.
We are living in a nation where the most powerful government on earth cannot keep its own lights on, cannot feed its own people, and cannot stop arguing long enough to pass a budget. That is not leadership. That is failure.
Democrats claim that Republicans want to starve the poor. Yet it was the Left that pushed endless spending, imported millions of illegal immigrants, and demanded taxpayer-funded benefits for non-citizens while ignoring veterans and working families.
Some Republicans are cheering that shutting down welfare teaches discipline. But it teaches nothing except indifference. You cannot win the moral argument for liberty while celebrating hunger. Compassion and conservatism are not enemies. They are the same thing when done right.
This is not about handouts. It is about hand-ups. A Constitutional Republic is built on the idea that government is of, by, and for the people, not against them. We cannot talk about America First if Americans are the last to be protected.
We can fund wars in countries most of us cannot pronounce, but we cannot make sure a single mom can buy milk for her kids. That is not patriotism. That is hypocrisy.
The Left weaponizes suffering to push dependency. The Right sometimes weaponizes austerity to prove purity. And somewhere in between, millions of citizens get crushed by the system both sides claim to fix.
The truth is simple. A nation that abandons its citizens in the name of politics will lose more than an election. It will lose its soul.
We must stop letting Congress use shutdowns as leverage, stop letting bureaucrats decide who eats and who does not, and stop pretending that hunger and poverty are partisan issues.
If you are an American citizen, your government should protect your right to live with dignity.
That is not socialism. That is survival. That is justice. That is the Republic we are supposed to be defending.
Until both parties remember that, we will keep watching the lights go out, not just in Washington, but in the hearts of the people they are supposed to serve.
This Isn’t a Left or Right Crisis… It’s a Humanity Crisis
America Can Feed the World… But Not Its Own Citizens
America is shutting down, not because of a storm or a war, but because Congress has forgotten how to govern. In this powerful #GoRight with Peter Boykin monologue, we break down the truth behind the continuing government shutdown, the frozen food-stamp benefits, and the political theater both parties are using to manipulate voters before local elections.
This is not about blaming Trump or Biden. It is about exposing how Washington has turned our Constitutional Republic into a hostage of fear, division, and incompetence.
Peter Boykin reveals how Democrats exploit fear while expanding welfare for illegal immigrants, how some Republicans are cheering on policies that harm legal citizens, and how both sides have lost sight of the bigger picture. A rich nation failing to protect its own people is betraying its founding promise.
We do not need socialism. We need accountability. We do not need political theater. We need leadership. We do not need division. We need Americans first every time.
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