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Senior Hunger Surges As Boomers Swell The Ranks Of The Nation's Elderly
Forbes ^ | 06/06/2019 | Ted Knutson

Posted on 06/06/2019 9:01:59 AM PDT by Galatians328

The massive Baby Boomer generation which brought America the happiness of rock & roll and the Ford Mustang en masse is poised to trigger a surge in a scourge:

Senior hunger.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boomers; foodstamps; hunger
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To: Galatians328

People such as the elderly are only homeless & hungry when Republicans are in the WH. When Rats are in office Rat Manna falls from heaven, clothing is found on rose bushes & shelter springs up out of the ground like mushrooms!


61 posted on 06/06/2019 10:21:51 AM PDT by Reily
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To: cuban leaf

I hope you know what you’re doing with the wild mushrooms.

When I lived in Michigan we had the annual morel hunt.
Like clockwork each year you could predict that 5 to 6 people would be reported on the evening news to have died as a result of eating toadstools.


62 posted on 06/06/2019 10:22:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Texicanus

At Sam’s, you can buy a large whole roasted chicken for $5

There are similar but smaller roasted chickens at most grocery stores.


63 posted on 06/06/2019 10:23:24 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: mylife
Some old folks can no longer cook.

I know what you mean. I caught some cable reality series about America's Worst Celebrity Cooks. One of the contestants was Barbara Eden, one of my personal favorites. She is well past 80 and was looking rather frail. Part of me wondered if it was really safe for her to be in this competition.


64 posted on 06/06/2019 10:25:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

We have morels on our property and huge puffers (8” diameter).

I was sent to the hospital once for taking a bite out of a poisonous mushroom about 20 years ago. It was the big orange one with square white flecks in it. The poison is in the orange. Eat the stem and you’re fine. I ate the orange.


65 posted on 06/06/2019 10:26:20 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I used to hunt “coral” mushrooms on Mt St Helens before it blew.


66 posted on 06/06/2019 10:27:03 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Texicanus

Mmmm Chicken and dumplings...


67 posted on 06/06/2019 10:29:04 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Reily

Bingo on that.

When Reagan was President, the homeless population exploded. Or so the media told us.

Under Carter, Clinton and obozo these problems didn’t exist in their world.


68 posted on 06/06/2019 10:31:37 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It happens to most of us eventually.

It got me young.

10 years ago I was a buck.


69 posted on 06/06/2019 10:31:42 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Ken H

My senior hunger began about an hour ago.

I took care of it myself.

Like all of the rest of us that prepared does.


70 posted on 06/06/2019 10:33:11 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Galatians328

My advice- Change your name to Juan Valdez then go apply for political asylum. You’ll get treated like royalty.


71 posted on 06/06/2019 10:33:14 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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72 posted on 06/06/2019 10:36:09 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Yes, it is. Maybe on holidays I spend more, but typically I spend <$5 /day, unless I go out for lunch. I know this because I buy almost all my food from the local Lidl, and most months I barely make my $150 reward goal. And that includes alcohol and usually a few small items of clothes or housewares. The quality is good, and if you shop the specials, you get it cheap.


73 posted on 06/06/2019 10:37:30 AM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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To: TADSLOS

I want to live on the big rock candy mt. :)


74 posted on 06/06/2019 10:38:48 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: eyeamok
"Can’t we just enslave our Children in perpetual debt to pay for our wants??"

this!!!!!

I personally think we should not burden our children nor our grandchildren anymore then we already have.....

elderly get SS and Medicare which can afford them a decent retirement, something that many middle aged and young people will never have..

I worry much more about the working middle class and young families..they're the ones that need help.....

75 posted on 06/06/2019 10:42:46 AM PDT by cherry
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To: ThanhPhero

Such wonderful comments. The elderly were respected in this country also for generations. But that has changed in the last 50 years or so. Really a sad thing. Now they just want to throw the old folks in a nursing home.


76 posted on 06/06/2019 10:45:14 AM PDT by Cedar
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To: Cedar

It’s another casualty in the War on the Nuclear Family.

Children are supposed to take care of their elderly parents, not that State, or some Somalian “Nanny”.


77 posted on 06/06/2019 10:47:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

So true.


78 posted on 06/06/2019 10:49:49 AM PDT by Cedar
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To: dfwgator

...and now many of the elderly ARE their parasite children’s own personal nest egg.


79 posted on 06/06/2019 10:50:47 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: cuban leaf

“The people that don’t have it so good are the poor, who live in food deserts.”

And whose fault is that? Retailers know that if they open up in those areas they will be robbed blind by shoplifters, not to mention armed robbery. Why should they put their profitability and their employees well being at stake to help losers who do not deserve or appreciate it?

A couple of of years ago Trader Joe’s was going to open a store in a poor area of Portland, OR. Local “community leaders” demanded that bribes be paid. TJ said “NO” and cancelled the project. Those Germans knew they were doing them a favor and were not going to put up with that in return.


80 posted on 06/06/2019 10:51:24 AM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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