An unstaffed air control tower and 42 million hungry Americans
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
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The ongoing US government shutdown is the longest full shutdown in US history and the second-longest of any kind. Among its consequences, the air traffic control tower in Hollywood Burbank Airport in California was recently left unstaffed for six hours, forcing pilots to communicate among themselves to avoid incidents when taxiing to and from the runway. And forty-two million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) will go without their SNAP benefits beginning this Saturday. In response to financial need, the devil wants us to doubt God, prioritize the temporal, choose greed over character, and thus damage our witness to the world. Today, we discuss four practical responses to this temptation.
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| 0:59.0 | Podcast from Denison Forum. I'm Chris Elkins' narrator. Today's daily article is authored by our co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:08.6 | The ongoing U.S. government shutdown is the longest full shutdown in U.S. history and the second |
| 1:15.7 | longest of any kind. Among its consequences at Hollywood Burbank Airport in California, the air traffic |
| 1:23.2 | control tower was recently left unstaffed for six hours, forcing pilots to communicate |
| 1:29.3 | among themselves to avoid incidents when taxing to and from the runway. More than 800,000 |
| 1:36.4 | U.S. flights have been delayed as shutdown-related air traffic control absences persist. 42 million |
| 1:43.5 | Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food stamps, |
| 1:49.5 | will go without their SNAP benefits beginning this Saturday. |
| 1:54.1 | Federal funding will also stop flowing to programs that fund education, health, and |
| 1:59.7 | nutrition services for more than 800,000 children |
| 2:03.8 | under the age of six. |
| 2:05.8 | In other financial news, Amazon is preparing to lay off up to 30,000 corporate workers as |
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