How is the Government shut-down affecting you?

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Life in a first world country should not be that hard. People are begging for assistance and it's falling on deaf ears.

Who said it was falling on deaf years.  Lots of food banks in my area run ok without federal grants.  Without the federal government.  Where huge portions are covered by direct donations from everyday people.

So.  Cuba with its nanny state isn’t a first world country.  So how is making the US more like Cuba going to protect a majority of US citizens’ standard of living.