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To: PapaBear3625
I've stopped giving to food banks because of personal knowledge of people not deserving being given the "extras" such as fresh tomatoes, veggies, canned goods, etc...

no thanks....

save your charity for the people you know and your relatives or friends....at least you know they need is real....

82 posted on 04/09/2015 12:43:08 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry
save your charity for the people you know and your relatives or friends....at least you know they need is real....

That's the way things used to work, before the government destroyed the family.

83 posted on 04/09/2015 12:44:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cherry
save your charity for the people you know and your relatives or friends....at least you know they need is real....

Guy I know is unemployed, so we've been paying him to do household projects we haven't gotten around to doing. Win/win.

89 posted on 04/09/2015 2:59:14 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: cherry
I've stopped giving to food banks because of personal knowledge of people not deserving being given the "extras" such as fresh tomatoes, veggies, canned goods, etc...

They're not all like that. One of the food pantries I worked, we handed out boxes of mixed goods (so many starch items, so many canned goods of various kinds, some frozen meat if we had it), and the guy in charge made sure *not* to give the best stuff to the biggest whiners. If people tried to con or bully one of his helpers into giving them something different or something extra, then the next time they showed he'd deliberately short that person. He'd save low-demand items like heart or liver or whatever for some people who actually appreciated it, but not the more popular stuff like chicken legs or pork chops.

But mostly he just tried to make sure everything was equal for everyone -- if people didn't want something in their box, he'd take it back so he could regift it, but they didn't get to trade it in for something else. So long as he's in charge, we'll happily donate to that organization.

90 posted on 04/09/2015 6:56:49 PM PDT by Amity
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