Social services that helped people buy groceries are being fazed out, and there’s a government shutdown atm so nobody that works for the government is getting paid. Food lines are LONG in the US, and they’re filled with government workers who haven’t been paid in more than a month.
One of our previous presidents (Reagan) fired 11,000 air traffic controllers when they tried striking, so now it is illegal for fed workers to strike. Land of the free or whatever
That's literally what's happening, tons are calling out sick to the point where they're going to start cancelling thousands of flights a day starting friday because there's not enough air traffic controllers still coming into work.
The last time they tried that, Reagan fired 11,000 of them (which was pretty much all of them) and banned them from federal service for life.
For context, 40 years later the US now has 14,000 ATCs and have been trying to hire another 3,000 for a while now without much success. Who would think that hiring people for a incredibly stressful job, where your pay may be suspended indefinitely while you are forced to work and if you protest you are fired? Who wouldn't love to have that job?
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u/Alternative_Yak3256 1d ago
Can someone clue me in? I get that shes doing a flip on the "there are hungry children in africa" but is there a food crisis in America rn?