Posted on 08/23/2020 10:37:52 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
The line stretched a quarter-mile before the sun was barely up Saturday, snaking around corners like bread lines in the 1930s. But the hungry in Queens are today’s New Yorkers, left jobless by the coronavirus.
Until the pandemic struck the city, La Jornada food pantry used to hand out groceries to roughly 1,000 families a week. Now, the number tops 10,000. And volunteers serve lunch every day to 1,000 — many of them kids with growling stomachs. Across the five boroughs, the hungry is in the hundreds of thousands, the Food Bank of New York estimates. “It reminds me of the picture from the Great Depression where a man in a suit and tie is giving another man in a suit and tie an apple. That’s all he had,” La Jornada’s Pedro Rodriguez told The Post. “We give all we have, but that’s not enough.” Seniors, moms and kids, singles — many immigrants from China and Mexico — wait for hours. They turn out in droves wherever, and whenever, the food pantry’s truck shows up. “We feel like we are underwater, drowning in a tsunami of people,” Rodriguez, a volunteer who acts as the food pantry’s executive director, told The Post. “This isn’t like a little rain coming down. The numbers are unbelievable.” In less than an hour Saturday, Rodriguez and his army of other volunteers — nearly 400 spread across Queens — checked off almost 250 names from the appointment list.
The set-up used to be first come, first served until the needy started showing up before dawn because they were afraid La Jornada would run out of food. Once, in late March, the line covered 28 blocks. Walter Barrera still arrived at 6 a.m. to pick up his family’s groceries for
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Bill’s Dream of the USSR is forming up nicely
What, they don’t have food stamps in the city named after a slave trader?
Bread lines in NYC....
A communist/socialist wet dream has come true.
As part of overall Coronavirus economic stimulus, the USDA is running a $60 billion “food to families” program, where they pay food distributors 100% cost+profit to pack boxes for donation to food banks. economics 101 - the demand curve for “free” is potentially infinite.
I know a few food warehouses who have contracts for this. They are making a killing.
If only they could elect more Democrats.
Food lines... in America. Damned communist democrats and their fake pandemic and riots.
DaCommieo Communism is working just fine.
Buck up comrade.
I grew up in Brooklyn, and they don’t look like NY’ers to me. They aren’t citizens.
Wait a second isn’t Bill’s wife making Cookies ?
These are the salad days for food pantries.
“Do not feed the animals”... or they’ll forget how to fend for themselves.
Why isn’t Nancy’s House of Representatives voting on the $1200 payment? Trump is ready to sign the act into law. The Senate is willing to vote on it...but Nancy is blocking it. Why?
Why the citizenry haven’t torn the gates off the hinges at Gracie Mansion and dragged Emperor Wilhelm I out by his heels is beyond me. I doubt they’d meet much resistance from the NYPD.
And they’re all packed together like sardines in the line. If you can smell the guy in front of your fart, you can catch ChinaVirus through the dumb blue maxi pad you’ve strapped over your face.
“These are the salad days for food pantries.”
I bet the line would be considerably shorter if they served actual salads.
They could use the $1200 too escape ?
Line length inflation!
One quarter mile of people every six feet equals 220 people.
“.but Nancy is blocking it. Why?”
She wants the extra trillion$ to bail out her buddies in the failing dem states!
Refresh my memory...where are you in NYC?
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