Posted on 08/16/2015 5:07:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“confiscated FROM you and me.”
Go home?
She is home...as the article states, ...
"“I can’t get milk for my child. What are we going to do?” said Leida Silva, 54, breaking into tears outside the Latino supermarket in northern Maracaibo (Venezuelan city) where she arrived at 3 a.m. on a recent day.
BTT
I was just wondering if Trump’s illegal immigrant plan addresses these loop holes.
I figured it must be a Maracaibo in the US they were referring to, given the main thrust of the article. I didn’t click on the link.
I wonder if they have any Sichuan peppercorns.
I can’t find those things anywhere.
Conservatives give much more to charity than liberals. But to read the posts on here one wouldn’t believe it.
People are hungry. Are some of them lazy and frauds? Sure. But I suggest you think about what you would do if all of a sudden you didn’t have anything to feed your children. And realize that it could happen to all of us.
Matthew 25:35-40New Living Translation (NLT)
35 For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. 36 I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’
37 “Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? 39 When did we ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?’
40 “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,[a] you were doing it to me!’
I don’t mind giving to food banks, but when I’m already paying for half the country’s phone service, internet, electricity, housing, school meals, and bought their cars; it gets a little old. It’s no damn wonder we’re broke. I can’t afford half of what I am supposed to provide others!
I don’t know. He seems to be making it up as he goes along.
If they stop anchor babies it will stop.
When I’m out running errands, I often pass by a food bank in a rural area run by some religious group. From the signs posted at the entrance they look like they are only open on certain days and if they have ample food to give away.
On those days people drive up and form a line on the side of the road while waiting for the gate to open at 9 AM. The line usually winds back for half a mile or less from the food bank entrance. This has been the norm for several years.
As I drive down the road toward the food bank I have observed several things as I pass the line. There are usually trucks, cars, even buses filled with adults, kids, grandma, grandpa, and others. It looks like the handouts are given to each person, not each vehicle, which is why the headcount is so large per vehicle. Anyway each vehicle is packed which means a good number of people are needing assistance.
I see most of the vehicles are newer SUVs, trucks, and there were some high dollar luxury vehicles in the mix. Some have expensive after market rims and other items. I always thought I would see a bunch of junkers like my old 1995 Chevy truck, but I never see too many. There are times I’ve seen a motorhome or motorcyle.
The majority of the vehicles have handicap plates or tags hanging from the rearview mirror. What this means I don’t know but some do have empty scooter lifts on their vehicles. (Their scooter must be in the repair shop or someone stole their scooter.)
A lot of people bring lawn chairs to sit outside the vehicle or sit on the vehicle roof or hood until the gate opens and the line starts moving. Most are dressed like ex-WalMart* shoppers. Many are talking on their latest generation cellphones or Obama phones while the kids play games on the old hand-me-down phones and the old folks snooze.
This has been going on for several years and without much change. But I observed something strange last week that changed my heart. The line that morning stretched for miles and miles. I’m talking over the horizon miles. I have never seen such a long line before. I’m sure the food bank must have run out of food and closed the gate long before everyone in line got their handout. It brought a Boehner (tear) to my eye to see so many people willing to wait hours for some food that was probably past it’s expiration date or overripe.
As I passed the food bank, the gate was still locked and people were waiting to enter. I said a prayer for the ones who truly needed assistance (GOD knows) and ask him to bless them.
Folks, something IS happening and we had better get our act together before the SHTF. When the food banks shut down, it’s going to be bad news, particularly in the big urban areas. Lots of people who put their trust in government are going to starve while waiting in FEMA lines for the few MREs stored (among the millions of body bags) in the government warehouses.
Take my advice and stay away from the big cities or you may be on the menu someday.
That would be frightening except I cannot help but think that in a severe crisis many of these people would die in their cars and RV’s, with dead cell phones, on highways blocked with fleeing vehicles, from heat, cold, or after 3 days without water
Missed that
Very odd that is was stuck in the middle of the article like that, a one sentence link to a Reuters piece about Venezuela
I will guess the writer is better than that and his editor made a strange cut
That’s why you plan ahead and do the best you can. A lot of people’s survival instincts have been tossed aside and forgotten. They have been lulled into a complacency with more and more government entitlements and lured into more debt than they can repay by easy credit. Others don’t care because they barely survive day-to-day or week-to-week in this economy despite the above choices. They want to believe the government when it says the economy is getting better, but a few are starting to worry that it isn’t.
Many people can’t react in emergency situations. Instead they wait and expect the government to come to their aid and provide for all their needs. They can’t envision living without water, electricity, or cell phones for any length of time. To them, failure of these resources are only minor and temporary inconveniences, maybe lasting for a few minutes or hours, but not for days. But let them lose connectivity with the Internet for 5 minutes and it becomes pure agony.
They don’t comprehend the domino effect if these resources are not available. Think about it: NO electricity = NO telecom links (after battery power backups expire) = NO functional ATMs = NO cash and on and on.
Many people will die in their homes from lack of food and water when the hot water heater has 40 or more gallons of water remaining after the water supply fails. Also, some of the plants and weeds in the garden or lawn may be edible. Stay away from mushrooms and other unknown plants if you haven’t done you homework. Also keep tabs on your pets, your neighbor might need a protein boost.
Many times people will attempt to flee without adequate preparation and planning. During a hurricane a few years back, people fleeing Houston on northbound I45 and other main access roads found them blocked. They idled their vehicles until they ran out of fuel. When they attempted to find fuel, all the gas stations were either closed, without electricity to pump fuel from their storage tanks, or simply out of fuel.
Lacking fuel they started looking for food and water finding the same situation. They called 911 and AAA until their cell phones went dead. It was a screwed-up mess that took days to resolve. It took some people 2 days or more to get to Dallas. Fortunately the hurricane bypassed to the east of them. A direct hit could have created a more disastrous situation.
A few people managed to get into the southbound lane and moved northward as far as they could before finding it blocked and the same situation with fuel, food, and water.
I could go on but I think you know what I mean. Some people have given no thought as to how they would survive on their own during an emergency or other crisis. But in fairness, all bets are off if it is nuclear and you are in Zone 1 of the blast.
Getting back on topic, food banks serve to redistribute donated food (and other items) that would otherwise be thrown away or fed to animals. It is an alternate way for many to obtain food quickly in the short term without the government bureaucracy required to qualify for food stamps.
Of course there is an even quicker way to obtain food without waiting in line or undergoing some government red tape. It’s dumpster diving. Of course many would rather starve than go diving for dinner. And it does require some planning and preparation.
Unfortunately some people in their greed abuse food banks and their charity.
If you want to watch a sobering video, go to YouTube and watch “After Armageddon”
The full video is about 90 minutes
People have an unrealistic vision of “ bug out” as if everyone is gonna pile in the family truckster for a drive to a scenic farm in the mountains and grow corn and taters
And the feral urbans have no idea what happens after 3 days without water in summer heat
Even Katrina showed what happens when doctors and nurses in hospitals and nursing homes have to choose their family survival
+1.
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There’s a time to “bugout” and a time to “stand your ground” depending on the circumstances and risks. I just hope I will be wise enough to choose the correct one when the time comes.
If I were in an urban environment I doubt that I could survive the feral urbans, but someone who has lived his whole life there might have the knowledge, experience, and wisdom to “stand his ground” and survive. But the way I see it, the bigger urban areas are already starting to collapse. There are too many people and I see only anarchy in their future.
I live in rural Texas and I would prefer to “stand my ground” rather than “bug out”. But if I were to “bug out”, Texas offers lots of unoccupied space, fewer people (outside the major urban areas), and different environments depending on which part of Texas one lives.
The first inhabitants were called Texicans and later on Texans. They lived and survived in extreme environments and under Spanish or Mexican rule. They managed to find enough food and water and avoid their rulers and survive. The Indians before them survived on even less.
Speaking of the food, Crocodile Dundee says lizards taste “just like chicken” so what’s not to like about the food supply. And John the Baptist survived on locust and wild honey. There’s plenty of food, just not the good stuff we are used to eating like BigMacs etc.
If we are thrust back two centuries, I would rather be in rural Texas than anywhere else. At least Texas is survivable unless everything is contaminated by nuclear fallout or volcanic ash. In that case it doesn’t matter unless there is some place left for me to “bug out” that has not been contaminated.
BTW, after 3 days without water in the summer heat, I would expect to find a lot of raisins lying around in the urban areas.
That is the first thing I’m going to check for.
In trump-et-myself’s plan.
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