Posted on 12/28/2009 1:42:47 AM PST by myknowledge
As a national recession wears on, more middle-class people are asking for food, even in places like affluent Montgomery County, Md.
About 24,000 families have been added to the rolls of Manna Food Center in Rockville, Md., in the last year and a half, said Kim Damion, director of development and communication. Close to 400 families picked up food boxes on Thanksgiving Day this year, more than any other year since the center opened in 1983, Damion said. Manna gave food to 1,600 families on Thanksgiving week.
Nationally, 49 million Americans are at risk of not getting enough to eat every day, Feeding America, a national non-profit group dedicated to fighting hunger, says.
People like Amy Wilkinson, used to donate food regularly to Manna Food Center. These days, Wilkinson, a cancer patient, is standing in line to get her monthly food ration.
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Monthly “food ration”? Are there coupons?
“Distribution of the food is one of the problems that have to be rectified.”
But that is obamination’s plan. He who controls the food contols the populace and votes. Just ask any third world dictator.—or obama.
Wow. No wonder Montgomery County has turned to a ‘liberal’s paradise’.
I still ask...How does a person not understand the single most important investment in their life?
But they won't. They'll simply go other places and ruin it for everybody else.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
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