The newspapers today are replete with headlines about people suffering without WIC benefits. To assist the hungry poor who have been harmed by the shutdown, Food Lion is donating $500,000 in $5 gift cards to food banks in Asheville, Charlotte, Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem. Come to think of it, I’d rather be beholden to Food Lion than the federal government. They neither tax me nor spy on me nor attempt force me to fund abortions . . . .