Posted on 08/24/2022 10:05:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Food pantries across the U.S. say they're struggling to meet demand as the rising cost of groceries is forcing more Americans to opt for donated meals.
A recent survey from Feeding America, a nonprofit network of 200 food banks, found that 155 food pantries reported a jump in families coming to their door.
"People coming through and they're not just getting for their family, but they might have a sister or a brother they're getting a little bit extra for," Tehma Smith Wilson, who runs a food pantry in Baltimore, told CBS News.
The increase in people seeking help from food banks is also taxing pantries' own resources. In the past, Wilson said her pantry typically received 700 boxes of food to donate — that number is now around 100.
"But we can't complain because something is better than nothing," Wilson said.
Grocery store prices jumped 13% in July, the biggest one-year increase since March 1979, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data. Eggs had the largest price spike at 38% compared to a year ago, while costs of flour (up 23%), butter (22%) and coffee (20%) have also soared, government data show.
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It’s good to be a ward of the government. To hell with getting a job. America is the land of the free stuff!
Why is the government trying to starve us? Why does Biden want to starve us?
Food banks are but a tiny price to pay against a continuation of mean tweets
As a community project, I helped out at a food pantry one day. They were giving away food for Christmas dinners. One woman pulled up in a new Range Rover. She was also carrying a Coach purse. They still gave her the food.
Alex Jones was right again. Plus the turd world is collapsing one nation after another. Best to feed Ukraine with American weaponry to blind us from the southern border and uber inflation/despair
Because the WEF & friends believe there are too many humans on the planet.
Hundreds of millions in the 3rd world will starve and our living standard will suffer. Pray for your fellow Americans. We ain't seen nothing yet.
The Godless reprobates are making the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse a zooming reality.
Revelation 6
King James Version
6 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%206&version=KJV
Yes, breakneck speed.
Range Rover and Coach purse. Sounds about right. A local woman tells that people around here won’t even take the food if it involves any form of actual cooking.
I’ll believe there’s a hunger problem in this country when families with seven kids and nine iPhones cut back to one and learn how to boil a government potato.
I’m of the school: “Teach a man to fish”
(“Today, we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July — 0%,” Biden said. “Here’s what that means: while the price of some things go up — went up last month, the price of other things went down by the same amount. The result? Zero inflation last month.”)
Time for The Knickerbockers again
This was food that you had to prepare, frozen turkey or ham, flour, sugar, vegetable oil, etc.
Yep
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You said it.
Revelation 1:3-6
King James Version
3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%201%3A3-6&version=KJV
Revelation 22:17
King James Version
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2022%3A17&version=KJV
John 3:17-18
King James Version
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A17-18&version=KJV
The price vs. demand curve for “free” is infinite.
Got it. I am a bit surprised.
Look at their waist size before we go off the deep end on this.
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