Posted on 04/04/2019 11:15:34 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Sounds like the guy who paid all his employees $70,000 because it was a fair living wage ... ans went broke in a few months.
*Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, got the idea after volunteering with their children at a similar store in California.*
I’m going to take a guess that this will only work with an all-volunteer crew. Otherwise, the costs are overrun. The food must be donated as well. It’s pretty much a food bank.
I disagree with his idea that kids shouldn’t know that their parents are having a hard time making ends meet. That knowledge can be helpful to both parents and children. For parents, embarrassment can provide an incentive to work harder to improve their lives. For the kids, it can be an incentive to work hard to overcome similar circumstances in the future.
There was a time when my father worked four jobs to keep food on the table (one full-time, and three part-time jobs). We children (six of us) had to pitch in helping out where we could, until we could work our way out of the problem. It took about three years before my Dad could start his own business, and it was in part, due to others in the community seeing his hard work, and wanting to take a chance on giving him a small business loan. That family business is still going strong some 46 years later. Those years were hard, very hard, but that adversity helped my family pull together, and there were many valuable life lessons learned. I wouldn’t trade those lessons for anything.
Yep, and WIC. Back in 1965, I went to work for the welfare department in Rochester, NY. There was no such thing as Food Stamps or WIC. It was called "Surplus Foods" back then, and welfare recipients came to the back of our building to pick up whatever food items were provided.
What could go wrong?
Good for you!!!
Great post!!
One of the perks of my internship is that I got FREE medical and dental. The Gospel Mission is “training ground” and part of the curriculum for USC Dental and UCLA Medical students, so ALL these homeless get free dental and teeth cleaning that would cost any dental pantient minimum $800..and I got mine done for free. Meaning all these homeless get A+ medical and dental just for doing nothing but stay in tents..
Better double up on those Nationwide Insurance commercials with Peyton Manning.
Yeah, my family grew up rather poor. Hint: we kids knew. When buttered toast is your dinner for days at a time, you kinda put two and two together. It didn't matter. We were still happy.
Well if they are paying for it and not taking govt money, if it makes them feel good, ok.
If they are virtue signalling or expecting govt help or that others ought to do it, they’re idiots.
A fool and his money are soon parted... I give it a year to eighteen months at the most before it is closed. The lazy vultures will swoop in and pick this place like a prized chicken and not even as much as a thank you will be offered.
I grew up in ‘Milwaukeestan’ on Free Government Cheese! Good times, but I never planned my LIFE around it, LOL!
My Mom lived on stewed tomatoes on toast as a kid - for months at a time. Very, VERY poor. Very, VERY Rural.
She will not touch a stewed tomato now, even if she were starving.
Every “country” star in Nashville wants to be the second coming of Roosevelt.
LOL!! People used to say the peanut butter they issued in the big cans, and the cheese, was excellent.
I’m sure they’ll get some nice tax write-offs.
I can related to that. It's like my having had three abdominal surgeries, in three years, and only being able to have liquid diets throughout each hospital stay. It got so I couldn't even eat Jello anymore, and gagged on it whenever I tried to eat it. Still can't stand it.
Probably the primary reason!
You had butter ? Man that was a treat back then. Oleo and powdered milk. Ugh
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