government shutdown

I didn’t expect a walk and a Springsteen song to hit this hard.

A long walk, some Springsteen lyrics, and a gut punch of truth

Perhaps no lyric ever written so succinctly sums up my belief in the idea of America more than these words from that song. Those words cut through me harder than they normally do. We’re losing who we are. The list of things we’ll do is getting longer and the list of things we won’t, shorter. This week, 42 million Americans are facing their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits running dry because of the shutdown.

Walter McFarlane

Nov 55 min read