Further reality checks: "These people wouldn't know what to do with a 10 lb bag of oats." Say what? It's called get a pot and boil the water. They're showing them at this food center how to make "no bake cookies," but they can't show them how to make oatmeal, which is a perfectly nutritious breakfast.
So the people live so far away from "civilization" they "can't get to a food bank." From what I've seen of rural W. Virginia, people smoke like chimneys. They're obviously able to get cigarettes, so they're travelling *somehow.* Besides, if you live that far away, what's with not gardening or hunting? Raising a pig or goat?
This article lists one sob story after another, but it doesn't hang together. Maybe we're not talking a poverty problem - maybe we're talking a true, serious problem with *mental retardation.* That's another story altogether.
No, we're talking about sheer laziness, thugs with no job who wear $300 sneaks, and spendthrifts who would buy a carton of cigs before putting food on their kids' table.
-ccm