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Can any Americans explain to me, a Canadian, how it makes sense for essential services like food benefits to be suspended just because your government can't get their shit together?
Like, genuine question here; how is this is a good system? How does your country benefit from things being designed this way? I'm not saying we don't ever have political deadlock in Canada, we most certainly do, but even as someone who gets half my household income from the military, I've never had to worry about a missed paycheck just because politicians are being stupid. We have failsafes for that. Why don't you?
hahhaha, wait, Canada, gov worker, missed cheques not a thing????? Have you heard of the phoenix payroll system??
I mean, the US is currently missing pay periods due to a conflict between their political leaders -- but for us, our gov workers missed paycheques due to sheer incompetence. The people responsible for that shitshow weren't even fired / held accountable for screwing it up. I don't disagree that the US system has some issues, but I also don't think we're in that great a position to comment haha
As you point out, the Phoenix issue was incompetence, and the impact was uneven. Some didn't have issues, others missed paycheques, yet others still got paid more than they expected.
But the US situation is a function of US Government that results in massive impact against the more vulnerable members of their society. I believe the comment remains valid.