It’s Your Call for Oct. 28

Is anyone else dealing with this?

Has anyone else out there paid their bills to Mosaic and because of their poor bookkeeping, we're getting letters saying that they turn it over to a collection agency even though the checks have already passed the bank.

We are subsidizing billionaires

Approximately 44% of Americans are paid less than a living wage by their employers and are forced to rely on taxpayer-funded social safety nets like SNAP. Programs like SNAP subsidize the profits of companies like Walmart, Amazon, Starbucks, and McDonald's who pay poverty wages. We are literally subsidizing billionaires.

Who's to blame on the shutdown?

I blame the Republicans as much as the Democrats because the Speaker of the House, who is a Republican under President Trump's orders, won't bring the House back into session to negotiate with the Democrats to try to get the shutdown over with. So, in fact, maybe Republicans may be more to blame than the Democrats because the Republicans don't want to negotiate with the Democrats.