Price Of Liberty Eternal Vigilance

Empower Missouri has repeatedly chosen you to activeness during the past twelvemonth to oppose proposed regulations from the Trump Assistants. Another dangerous proposal has been published in the Federal Register , open to public annotate, so we must phone call you to stand in solidarity with families that are food insecure yet over again.

We recognize that The-Fiddling-Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf principle is at play. Subsequently months of a Cut-Cut-Cut litany around funding for the rubber net and a Smash-Smash-Smash drumbeat to human rights protections of the almost vulnerable in our club, information technology is easy to want to melody it all out. It would be so easy to just turn on the World Series, pop open up a mash, and skip filing a comment to the USDA this time. Instead, nosotros're asking that you consider what is at stake and what we are really challenging when nosotros speak up to the attacks on families with depression incomes.

Many of us accept heard the slogan "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," just most of us do not know the residual of the quote or who said it. Information technology is often misattributed to Thomas Jefferson, only the real source of the quote is Wendell Phillips, an abolitionist. Speaking to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Social club in 1852, Phillips said:

" Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; ability is ever stealing from the many to the few.  The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten…..but past unintermitted agitation tin a people be sufficiently awake to principle non to allow liberty exist smothered in material prosperity."

Submitting a thoughtful and respectful comment to the USDA, writing your legislators, attending a rally or a hearing on behalf of our neighbors with depression income, you are participating in that agitation. Unintermitted agitation does not require hostility, only it absolutely requires consistency.

The latest USDA proposal to modify the rules effectually the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP, commonly known equally food stamps) would cap the Standard Utility Allowance that accommodates the differences people experience in utility rates and costs. If the changes are made, nineteen percent of SNAP households, nearly 1 in five, would get lower SNAP monthly benefits. This change would disproportionately bear upon elderly people and people with disabilities, and a national cyberspace cut to SNAP benefits amounting to $4.five billion over five years is projected.

A huge, poorly-structured tax cut was delivered in 2017, benefiting just those with the highest incomes. The wealthiest amid us had a windfall, and now the one in seven Missourians who depend on SNAP to put nutrient on their tables are asked to tighten their belts. This is not just, and therefore is why nosotros must protest past using the FRAC comment platform to transport our comments to the USDA.

Speaking of the Nutrient Research and Action Centre (FRAC), have you registered for our annual briefing on Nov 9 in Columbia nonetheless? Ellen Teller, Director of Regime Affairs for FRAC, is the tiffin speaker, and Rep. Crystal Quade of Springfield and Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman of Arnold are closing speakers. They will share their experiences with SNAP, whether receiving their benefits in real life or past walking a mile in the shoes of some other through the #MOSNAPChallenge. You lot also may interact with Ellen informally at a reception on Friday night, November eight, at the Holiday Inn Executive Middle,  2200 I-70 Drive Southwest in Columbia, offset at vi:30 p.m. RSVP's to [email protected] are appreciated.

We cannot allow ourselves to become complacent. Delight come gather with other advocates who believe in food and housing security for all. Acquire from each other and encourage each other. Together we can sustain the "unintermitted agitation" needed to keep power from taking nutrient from the tables of the near vulnerable among us.

In solidarity,

Jeanette Mott Oxford (JMO)
Executive Director

Price Of Liberty Eternal Vigilance,

Source: https://empowermissouri.org/eternal-vigilance-is-the-price-of-liberty-our-duty-to-agitate/

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