Posted on 05/29/2007 6:56:15 PM PDT by Huntress
I really wanted to get that point across......LOL.
Then we entered a little, windowless room where two elderly volunteers were slowly "sorting" the food (by this time, broken down into individual cans and boxes). This appeared to be a serious bottleneck. I have never figured it out.
Ever since, when there are food drives to service this foodbank, I have wondered about the massive amounts of food we saw there when we were shown around and why they seemingly could not break the amounts down and parcel them out more efficiently than it seemed they were doing. I think this foodbank manages (somehow) to provide food to a lot of people who need it in this area. After what I saw, I can't imagine how they accomplish that, and I still wonder what happens to all of the huge amounts of food that I saw all stacked up in the main warehouse. There was plenty of food there to fill the needs of an awful lot of people. I am still rather puzzled by the experience.
You're buying your bread in the wrong place. Wal-Mart about $1.15 per loaf. "day old" bread store, about half that.
That would buy a flat of 6 started tomato plants; she could probably find a small chunk of soil to plant them.
Then she could have a bushel or so of fresh ones for awhile.
I know, I know, that would take effort and creativity..
While it may be LIKELY the woman is a Mexican illegal alien, the article doesn’t say so. I say “likely” because the article doesn’t mention EITC, which this woman would collect $2,000 a year from if she were legal.
There are many non-English speakers here legally, some of them political refugees from Central America. Or she might be from Cuba. Lots of Spanish speakers around, you know. Still, let’s not give people a reason to call us bigots because we jumped to a conclusion based on such scanty information.
My question when I see articles like this is why don’t these people band together and share a rent they can afford ? A five bedroom house can be rented — or even purchased — in Kansas City for less than $1000/month. So if this single mother shared such a house with 4 other single mothers, they would each save themselves a few hundred bucks a month, and possibly have child care in-house and eliminate that expense.
People would rather live “independently”, even if that means foodstamps and living off charity ? That is a strange notion of “independent” if that is their thinking.
Can anyone please explain this statement?
Liberal math.
If you want to call it bread. ;)
I was talking about Orowheat(sp?) or a substantal wheat or multigrain bread.
“A five bedroom house can be rented — or even purchased — in Kansas City for less than $1000/month.”
They do this already. Then problems arise when 25 people are living in a five bedroom house.
I should point out that when I was in Puerto Rico ten years ago, the majority of the population was on food stamps via the WIC card. Gotta love our colonials!
You must eat a better class of bread than I do, I've never heard of orowheat, even if it is a misspelling, I wouldn't know.
My wife is horrified that I will eat a piece of bread even if it has a litle green on it. When she's around I usually give it to the birds, they aren't that picky.
Notice it says $5 in “benefits” ?
It doesn’t say what it costs the taxpayer.
Hmmm. Maybe it costs the taxpayer $9.20 ? Ya think ?
Naw. Getting the government involved couldn’t actually add any overhead costs, could it ?
Yes, I know. Although my example was for a total of ten — five single mothers each with one child as in the first section of the article.
At any rate, if this woman was already doing that, then the figures just don’t work out. Rent + child care doesn’t add up to $1,000/mo in Kansas City unless you are spending $600 of it on rent. And probably not even then.
I’ve always thought that the poor should band together to provide affordable co-op childcare, group food purchases, group insurance. Sounds a little like communism on a local level.
I wonder why the leftists don’t propose the idea? Seems it would fit their agenda to a “T”. Maybe they need an underclass?
I just picked up a loaf of Great Value (Wal-Mart house brand) wheat bread for $1.27. It’s quite tasty, keeps a long time, and makes excellent toast.
You are certainly right. The left needs an under class to exist. Keep them on the government dole, promise them more “gimmies” and they will vote for you every time.
crap.
THEN, she goes on to tell how this poor trio struggles to get by on more grocery play-money than many of the people who GIVE HER THAT MONEY!!!
Mizz Guttierez ought to write a story about how an AVERAGE American family manages to buy their own groceries after they pay the rent and buy the groceries for The Sponges.
Seriously every city and municipality in the country seems to have some sort of stamp out hunger program going on. Yet whenever I go anywhere all I see are plenty of overfed Americans. Lib scribblers have to stop cooking up (heh,heh) all these phony stories about masses of starving Americans.
and $1.49 is not a bad deal......they can run considerally higher than that this time of year.....
I caught my own mother pulling that crap (which shocked me because she's a conservative). Catholic Charities has some kind of program where senior citizens can get discount lunches at certain restaurants. Of courses, CC has a limited number of the lunches. So, here she is, a woman living in a $450,000 home, telling me how she gets discount lunches at her favorite restaurant. I reamed her out from here to the North Pole, asking who did she think she was, a woman who wanted for nothing, taking discount lunches away from those seniors who need them. She thought I was nuts.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.