No Checks August 3rd?

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President Obama announced on the news that if the debt ceiling mess could not be sorted out he could not guarantee that people who are on Social Security, Veteran's benefits, and many others will receive their benefit checks on August 3rd. Considering the behaviour of that bunch calling themselves our political class (both Republican and Democrat), the likelihood of the Debt problem being solved is as likely as a Dodo Bird riding on top of a unicorn into the senate floor. For those who depend on those checks this will be not a little sacrifice. it will be an unmitigated disaster. If they are lucky, the landlord will simply dump the poor sod on the street. Heart attacks will be plentiful, many fatal as this is a physically frail as well as financially frail population. Medication will go unpurchased, as will food, much less nutritious food. Many of the veterans whom this will hit will have head injuries, or lost limbs so will be easy prey to whatever miladies that prey on them. That group are already scraping to get by, many already homeless. Disabled adults on SSI with mental illness fight to keep their sanity via the meds they take. take their income, you take their medications, you take their sanity. Crime doesn't climb, it flies. Emergency rooms become packed as they self medicate to escape their inner torment, then overdose with perhaps a bad batch. They become victims of crime or victimise their community members seeking escape from their inner hell. Families of these people will suffer. This mess doesn't happen in a vacuum. Children and spouses become battered or dead. Morgues will do brisk business.