I was in the store today and I saw that the EBT benefits cards did not work. I though that was weird, so I went home to the internet and looked up what was going on. As I was looking I was thinking that with the government shut down, did the EBT fall victim to the games of the politicians. Do you feel that this could be the case? According to this article this was a computer issue. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/10/12/computer-upgrade-blamed-for-nationwide-ebt-system-shutdown-on-saturday/.
Was this a true mistake or was this on purpose to curry favor opening up the government?