Posted on 10/04/2013 1:31:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"......Feeding South Florida is just one of 202 food banks in the country hit hard by the Washington, D.C., stalemate. With 47 employees, it’s the largest of nine in Florida, responsible for 30 percent of statewide distribution.
The agency distributes 35 million pounds of food a year from its 70,000-square-foot warehouse, everything from bananas and pears, to turkeys and hams, to soups and nuts, even baby formula. The USDA funding accounts for more than one-third of Feeding South Florida’s supply chain. On Thursday, its six open loading bays were filled with volunteers heaving food into U-Hauls and other trucks.
The distribution center’s 325 partner agencies supply food to 949,910 people.
“They sent us an email saying we can’t order anything else. So once we distribute this, that’s it,” says Sari Vatske, the distributor’s vice president of programs and initiatives. “We need Publix, Target, Walmart and Winn-Dixie to step up. We’ll need to double efforts on food drives and fundraisers.”
The sting of the shutdown was a little harsher to those doing business with the federal government on Day 3 of the standoff: Food distributors’ shelves were emptying, small business loans were in a holding pattern, and Florida Bay’s waters became off-limits to some............."
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Remember to tell people that the President decides what to shut down
How did we EVER survive as a country without all of these government overlords?
yesterday, bread and milk were on the grocery store shelves. Amazing! Guess it will be a full week before the shelves, in the grocery store, are empty.
I agree. This shutdown is a beautiful opportunity to show people that true Christian charity comes with no strings attached. Obama is basically telling people to submit or starve. Sounds very Stalinesque to me.
It is time for all professed Christians to put their butts in gear and show charity to their countrymen and prove why God’s way is better than governments.
Indeed—grievance politics has spoiled history, the liberal arts, and public education all the way down to the primary grades. It’s all that they know which isn’t true that is even more appalling than that they haven’t been exposed to so many truths.
Also, they probably are less responsible than you were at age 12 too.
barak would love to turn his people loose like this.
Wonder what Van Jones is up to nowadays?
“Also, they probably are less responsible than you were at age 12 too.”
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I chuckled when I read that, my parents would have told you when I was twelve that I was as lazy as I could be but when I think back I realize that I was already a capable farmhand. I pulled my end of a long two man saw to cut firewood, I split it with an axe, I hauled it to the woodpile with a horse and a groundsled. I carried it in to the woodbox. I walked the fields behind that horse during my summer “vacation”, alternating with my older brother. When the horse died I switched to a mule, my father bought two mules so my brother and I could both plow at the same time. I hoed cotton, I picked cotton, I pulled fodder, I pulled corn and hauled it to the barn with a one horse wagon. I dug ditches with a shovel. I pickecd and shelled beans and peas, I picked tomatoes, I picked up sweet potatoes and white potatoes, I loaded cantaloupes that were the size of watermelons I see in the stores now. I loaded watermelons that weighed fifty pounds each. It goes on and on, I doubt that you could hire a young boy now to do what I did if you paid him twenty dollars an hour.
Is anyone collecting a list of the abuses, and small acts of rebellion?
I think it might be important.
Also, nice tagline - I am trying to remember what book it is from?
The goal is to get taxpayers money to Democrat voters.
It's that simple.
You pay for your own destruction.
Whoa—I guess I was right! I grew up on a farm and thought I shouldered my share, but we had engines. My hat’s off to you.
And nope, kids don’t work in their 20s today the way they did in their teens even a few decades ago—let alone their primary years.
Huh? What's next, are they going to cut off our air supply?
I think they would if they could.
I’m sure the EPA (the “necessary” 10% still on the “job”) is working on something.
>>And when we buck, Obama will declare martial law.<<
Let him declare it. Is he going to enforce it too? With whom?
He can dry run all he wants. Who is going to arrest, house, and feed the million citizens who refuse to obey his childish rants?
That article points out how we are subjugated by our government - our every movement is controlled by this government - they have total control and we have none.
EXCEPT - the control we have already made for ourselves - as I read that article, I almost kissed my long term food - and don’t tell me the government is going to come take it out of my house. I am an insignificant one person in over 300,000,000 in this country.
I make no splash anywhere around me for anyone to notice. Plus, I have friends in high places in this county and they know I am a nothing except a really old person who “used” to teach election judges/clerks and county chairs about election law. I don’t do that anymore because I AM SO OLD.
The more you can prepare to provide life sustaining supplies for yourself and don’t go running through the streets to tell everyone around you, the more you can control your life and the federal government can go pound sand.
See, if the country totally collapsed, no power, so would government control, collapse. The best item you can get to find out what is happening in your county, our country, and the world, is a Short Wave Radio Receiver. Short wave is going to work.
However, forget getting information from JRandomFreeper’s short wave communications, because he is going to use Morse Code - swell, just swell, no help from him unless you know Morse Code. :o(
All right, I said I was old. Poor people were helped in the 1930s and I don't know how it was done before that, when this started.
I grew up in east Texas, about 8 miles west from Longview, Texas, on Highway 80. My community was called, “White Oak”, and it's now an official town.
Going west on Hwy. 80, for approximately 16 miles, brings you to Big Sandy, Texas. There one would find the official “Poor Farm”. I would hear my parents talk about the “Poor Farm”. Poor people would go there and live there and help raise the crops. It was a joke to say something like, “Don't spend all your money, or you will end up at the Poor Farm.” “If I did ‘X’, I'd end up at the Poor Farm.”
Sometimes, a man would come to our door, white or black, it didn't matter, asking for food, and my Mom would put food in a bag and give it to him. People helped people.
Now, the federal government houses you and gives you cards to buy food or whatever you want, AND GIVES YOU A PHONE. You don't have to do anything to get these cards and phones. I expect, if they were told to go to the “Poor Farm” and work there to raise food, they wouldn't do it. They expect everything to be free - as in, “It is my right for the government to house and feed me and I do nothing for it because it is my right to have it.”
I don’t remember the poem but it’s from e.e. commimgs.
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