Posted on 06/13/2012 6:47:50 AM PDT by Kartographer
The line of people desperate for lunch is an image more from the developing world than the country where Western civilization was founded more than two millennia ago. Yet the 1,200 who waited for bread, rice and vegetable soup at a kitchen visited by CNBC this week are just a fraction of the many hungry people in Athens and the surrounding area, as the noose of austerity tightens around the Greek population. The elderly and sick are fed first. Men get their food next, and there are plenty of scuffles in the line as women and children wait patiently for their turn.
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why on earth are men fed before women and children
What a world we live in when the corner three card Monte dealer is more honest than most of the ‘Too Big to Fail’ banks and investment houses. And face it the Monte deal who ‘scams’ a few hundred is a thousand times more likely to go to jail that the ‘banksters’ that are stealing millions.
The game is so rigged now that the fraudsters don’t even know how its going to play out. We are head for some bad times, which is one of the reasons I’ve been sounding the alarm. Its time that you either prepare to stand on your own beholden to no one or accept that you will be a ‘serf’ dependent on others to provide your basic needs.
As for me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Some seem to think that prepping is foolish, so I ask you what’s easier telling your children and loved ones why you prepared or explaining to them why you didn’t?
But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8
But then someone has to stand on the bridge waiting for FEMA to bring them a bottle of water, an MRE and a warm blanket so as to provide the Network Anchors their background ‘Money Shot’. Maybe if they are lucky ‘Moochele’ will drop by and give them some healthy fresh veggies from her garden. Now wouldn’t you just give you a thrill up you leg if that happened?
I am not saying that things will turn Mad Max/Book of Eli, (With the possible exception of a brief time in a few of the larger big blue cities) but things could easily breakdown for 30 to 60 days during which basic supplies, goods and services stop, banking stops (No checks No Credit Cards, No Debit Cards so on...) now how many people do you think are ready for such?
And between those not ready and those who have always had the ‘gubberment’ hand them everything what do you think the reaction will be?
Their reaction I think can be summed up in one of my favorite quotes:
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes. ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
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As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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So all these folks are waiting to be fed, instead of out working and producing something. Aint socialism grand!
Equal rights?
No, probably they are the ones working and need the calories to continue working in a manual labor job. If they falter, the whole family falters. That would be if it were a practical approach.
Or it could be a cultural thing, the inverse of a western "women and children first" meme.
If you read the article fully, you’ll see that it’s Greeks feeding their incompetent immigrant population. I’m not saying things are not bad but the article is pretty clear that the Greeks aren’t on the soup lines.
Nope...won’t happen here.
Soup kitchens serving the homeless have been banned in the US city of Las Vegas
Cities around America have recently been cooking up new ordinances that make it illegal to feed the homeless. St. Petersburg, Florida and Orlando, Florida are the two cities closest to Tampa to have come up with these completely useless and unusually cruel laws. http://www.examiner.com/article/no-soup-for-you-laws-ban-feeding-the-homeless
Plea for new charity soup kitchen after Birmingham city centre ban
New York City bans food donations
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/new-york-city-bans-food-donations/
It doesn’t say that women and children don’t get fed at all. They do. They just get fed on a different schedule. Men are fed separately to keep them from agitating violence in the line. Putting angry men in the same line with women and children would just upset them more. These are largely african and arab immigrants.
Around 70 percent of the people served by the kitchen [the one visited by CNBC] are immigrants, according to Mary Pini, who runs the kitchen. At other kitchens in the area, 100 percent of those lining up are Greeks who have fallen on hard times.
Oh I see. Yep, in that culture women and kids are the dispensable ones, to be used for human shields.
Oops! I guess I didn’t read the entire article! Or didn’t want to believe what I read. Sigh...
You have to destroy private charity to push everyone into the government system.
Our beloved-on-Free-Republic mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has made it completely impossible to feed poor people in NYC.
Here is the propaganda. These are victims of austerity. Out of control borrowing and spending, leading to governmental bankruptcy is not the issue, it's the eeeevil austerity measures.
True, but then point to a time when the poor, children, the hungry and homeless werenot used as ‘pawns’ by someone.
Many of those in the line are recent immigrants from countries such as Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey who have found themselves unable to cope when the better future they hoped for vanished."\
None fo the countries mentioned are Arab or African.
I just watched a documentary about the 1930’s that was a collection of film clips produced by the gubmint. What stuck in my mind the most was the soup lines and interviews of the “eaters”. They were obvously men that had been on the street for some time, not unlike our permanent “homeless” of today. It was an obvious propaganda piece. My parents went through the depression and hardly noticed it.
I guess you missed this part...
At other kitchens in the area, 100 percent of those lining up are Greeks who have fallen on hard times.
Lucky parents. My dad, mother and both sets of grandparents didn’t eat in any soap kitchens, but they sure noticed the depression.
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