The system is broken.

My heart truly hurts for the family that are going to be effective by this. My heart hurts knowing so many people are going to be hungry, so many parents skipping meals, so many kids going to bed and hungry. I rather someone abuse the system then for them to go hungry. I am not on SNAP/EBT but there was a time it served its purpose. It helped put meals on the table for my family, it helped us manage to ensure our children didn’t go to bed hungry at night.

So many people live paycheck to paycheck, I am in one of those families, I often have to make a choice on which bill gets paid on time, we don’t live extravagant lives, we are homebodies, but we are all healthy and we can sometimes splurge on takeout for the kids, but that’s only because we are a two income family, a lot of families aren’t.

My heart breaks for the single mom who is currently in panic mode, counting how she is going to feed her family if the SNAP gets shut off, my heart hurts for the single dad doing it on his own, with no one to help, who now needs to figure out how he is going to afford 22$ cans of formula after losing his wife in childbirth. My heart hurts, for the kids who’s only meal might be the meals in school.

This is horrible what is happening. The system is broken, there are more people who need the system, and the system is failing them, we are failing them, we are all failing each other. I wish more than anything that I was in a position to do more to give back to my community but sadly, I’m not. I’d be folish to think that one person can change, but maybe if enough can, maybe one day, the system won’t be broken.