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Feds name Northeast Tenn., Southwest Va. as part of 'food desert' ...
Kingsport (TN) Times News ^
| June 25, 2011
| Kevin Castle
Posted on 06/25/2011 8:57:50 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o
How silly! These counties are so rural and poor, that the people are probably eating primarily home-grown fruit, vegetables and hogs...an IDEAL diet, including white meat!
Why use a supermarket?
To: don-o
The fed moving in. I used to service the 911, police and fire communications in those counties. Hawkins in particular. The last thing they want is a federal interdiction program.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:28:16 AM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: TomGuy
Here’s just one more object lesson (as if it were needed) on the absolute insanity that has located in Washington DC.
$10,000,000 thrown out there like loose change for the chumps to pounce upon.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:30:06 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Please say a prayer for FReeper Just Lori.)
To: don-o
Elko County NV. With the Star Cafe it is not a food desert.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:33:11 AM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Pelosi: Obamacare indulgences for sale.)
To: don-o
The current oligarchs are pernicious liars.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:33:27 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: AnalogReigns
Why use a supermarket? Not sure if that is sarcasm or not. Percentage wise, we may have a few more folks who subsist by their own labors and lands than a typical metro, but not a great many more.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:33:59 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Please say a prayer for FReeper Just Lori.)
To: The Free Engineer
It’s creepy how damn much the federal government knows about us.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:34:16 AM PDT
by
Nickname
To: don-o
there are nine counties in those two states where the only food sources are either fast food restaurants or small scale convenience stores Oh dear, whatever will they do for food with only fast food restaurants and small scale convenience stores?
Bunch of blinkered urbanites, the notion of a garden is so utterly foreign that it never enters their pinched little minds. They'd be aghast at the thought of buying a side of beef from a neighbor and freezing it. Why, there ought to be a law, lol.
To: eyedigress
I live in SW Va. This is the land of vegetable gardens. Even I have tomatoes, lettuce and peppers growing.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:35:07 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: don-o
He’ll yes!!! This is just the sort of thing I need the government to do with my money. Reelect Obama.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:36:04 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: SouthTexas; don-o
I, Mrs. Don-o, a poor oppressed denizen of the Washington County, Upper East Tennessee, Watauga River watershed, Southern Appalachian Bioregion, USDA Zone 6B, just came in from a morning of working on my bountiful corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, Swiss chard, Russian kale, onions, blackberries, raspberries, melons, peppers, and assorted savory herbs (basil, thyme, garlic, fennel) to plop down in front of one of our redneck fambly computers to discover that --- un-flippin-believable --- I live in a
food desert!!!
I do have the uncomfortable feeling, though, that somebody has just slipped their hand down into my pocket to grab my last dollar in taxes..
Poison Ivy, Kudzu. Squash Vine Borers and the Taxman. Can I be prosecuted for this? I don't like 'em, not nairy one.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:38:07 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Makes me mad enough to beat the lard out of a biscuit.)
To: cripplecreek
My tiny town isnt a food desert and I have to drive 10 miles to a grocery store. Are you sure that it isn't? Distance to a grocery store seems to be the prime determinant of what constitutes a "food desert".
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:38:15 AM PDT
by
Bob
To: don-o
A complete damn lie, I live in Washington county VA. The biggest problem here is being careful not to get stepped on by the over weight welfare hogs. Nothing more than another Obummer vote buying project.
To: DesertRhino
"We ARE NOT a centrally planned economy."It's what I'd like to believe also, however, look at Federal farm subsidies, nutritional "guidelines," the dozens of multiple government agencies that have it's claws in EVERY industry.
Hundreds of thousands, or even millions of federal employees who's sole mission is to see that the diktats of the Feds on every facet of our lives are obeyed.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:46:27 AM PDT
by
jonascord
(The Drug War Rapes the Constitution.)
To: Bob
I spent most of my childhood in a county with only four grocery stores of any size at all, and they were all on the extreme southern border of the county. And only one fast food restaurant ... gasp! I’m surprised I survived that desert.
To: don-o
What, no grits?
The only thing I’m not really fond of in your neck of the woods is the BBQ sauce. LOL
Key Lime Pie used to be one of my favorites! Have shifted lately towards the coconut cream though.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:47:31 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
To: AnalogReigns
Ha, ha, ha, the area is damn sure not poor, the richest man in the state of VA, lives in washingon county, home of many, many, black gold millionaires. And thousands of retired union coal miners.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Good come back!
If they do start after you, you’re welcome here although we have no mountains. As son’s girlfriend from that way said “It’s...so...flat....” :)
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:51:03 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
To: AppyPappy
That region is rife with farmers. This is just the fed trying to justify their controlling edicts in other parts of the country. When the SHTF that area is better off than some poor sap that lives next to a Publix or Kroger.
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:53:25 AM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: cripplecreek
Love that map. It shows most of Bailey County, Texas outside of Muleshoe (where I grew up) as a food desert. The county produces something along the lines of $25 million in agricultural products per year ... but the poor people of the county don't live close to a grocery store.
I guess they'd be better off if they'd just get these darn farms out of the way!
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posted on
06/25/2011 9:55:08 AM PDT
by
Stegall Tx
(Joined the Obama economy on 19 March, 2010. Found part-time work on 12 Feb, 2011.)
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