For Alicia Spradley, it all started with a quick prayer.
Spradley from Chicago had seen the news that federal food aid was pausing at the start of November due to the government shutdown. With local food banks already stretched thin, she worried that her neighbors might soon go hungry.
So, on Monday night, she closed her eyes and asked, “What can I do to help?”
A few hours later, she came across a post on a Facebook community group about becoming a “grocery buddy” — someone who buys groceries for a stranger or anyone at risk of losing their food benefits. Without hesitation, Spradley wrote her own callout, offering support.
We are spending our money, after taxes, on things taxes should be paying for, so we are paying twice? No, because the things our taxes are being paid for are oligarchs to be richer. Why were we still paying taxes if they aren’t primarily benefitting the population? We don’t have a government for the people by the people. We have propaganda keeping oligarchs in power of a corporatocracy.