Another $50/mo I don't have

I vented about this on Bluesky but am mentioning it here, too.

I got an email this morning notifying me that the Affordable Connectivity Program is ending in April due to lack of funding from congress. There are no words to describe the obscenity of my government affording to fund a genocide but not discounted internet to its citizens living in poverty.

I'm down to my last few thousand dollars and am just hoping my approval for disability comes through before that money runs out. If worst comes to worst I can cash out my life insurance policy, but I'd really, really rather not.

At least I have it to cash out, so I'm grateful for that. But I'm weary of being grateful for having the means to continue existing in moderately comfortable, isolated poverty for a limited period of time.