US Food Banks Serving Record Number of People

[Mariahxxx]

In 2007 - 2012 US food banks served an increasing number of Americans every year. In 2000 it was between 4 and 5 million people. By 2008 it was 30 million people. By 2010 it was 37 million people.

With the new cuts to food stamps that ****** this week. a Ted Cruz backed bill, food banks are gearing up for even more people as the average person currently on food stamps will have their benefits reduced by nearly $50 per month.

and before georges jumps in with his analogy that it's all those filthy minorities and gang members taking all these food stamps, here's a little FACTUAL statistic:

Seniors, ********, people with disabilities and veterans will be the groups hardest hit by the cuts because they are the groups most reliant on food stamps.

Cruz wants to cut an additional $40 BILLION out of the food stamp program SNAP which will be devastating to 1 in 7 Americans on SNAP and of those on food stamps 94% are employed.

 

[HehehehehehehehehehahaHyena]

You act like food stamps are government subsidising companies low wage payments.

 

[Mariahxxx]

they are. 90% of people on assistance have jobs. over 70% of restaurant workers are on food stamps.

 

[bobjustbob]

Here's a story that I read a while back. I'll never find the link but I believe it to be 100% true.

A woman is retired with her urban brownstone paid for. She and her husband raised a ****** there and even had room for a *** to have her own ******-******** apartment downstairs. The **** are grown and away. Husband ****** on and left enough for her to keep the place for her remaining years. The *** passes on and this single widow decides to cook extra for the old folks stuck a flight or 2 up stairs. It was a meal. Not hard to find someone to run up a dish to old Mr What'shisname. She was a champion of the block.

Finding out that there were more people that needed her services, more meals were being made and delivered. She loved doing it. She was retired and alone and loved to cook and had no problem putting out of pocket. The small tip money from these old folks always found their way back to her. A really nice community effort. It got to the point that a few dozen people were depending upon these plates. She didn't want to limit how many she could serve but at some point one woman can only cook and plate for so many people. She looked to government help. What a fucking nightmare that became.

With the help of some locals, she got through the mountain of paperwork and now eligible for a charitable grant. A couple of hundred per month for more pots and pans and all the more food and packaging she needed. Now she had volunteers in the kitchen cooking and packaging. She has enough meals rolling out. HERE COMES THE GOVERNMENT. Shut her down because she doesn't have a dual sink, enough overhead ventilation for the cooking area, plumbing sufficient for overhead sprinklers. They even interfered with her meals. "Must serve 2% milk with every meal." "Must serve a certain portion of fruit with every meal" Many of these recepients didn't want this stuff but it had to be served anyway. It was mandated that this stuff was to be delivered and subject to inspection. It got to a point that she said fuck it, I ain't doing this **** no more.

What is my point? There is a difference between what the people need and what the government thinks it needs.

 

[D-rock]

Here's a story that I read a while back. I'll never find the link but I believe it to be 100% true.

A woman is retired with her urban brownstone paid for. She and her husband raised a ****** there and even had room for a *** to have her own ******-******** apartment downstairs. The **** are grown and away. Husband ****** on and left enough for her to keep the place for her remaining years. The *** passes on and this single widow decides to cook extra for the old folks stuck a flight or 2 up stairs. It was a meal. Not hard to find someone to run up a dish to old Mr What'shisname. She was a champion of the block.

Finding out that there were more people that needed her services, more meals were being made and delivered. She loved doing it. She was retired and alone and loved to cook and had no problem putting out of pocket. The small tip money from these old folks always found their way back to her. A really nice community effort. It got to the point that a few dozen people were depending upon these plates. She didn't want to limit how many she could serve but at some point one woman can only cook and plate for so many people. She looked to government help. What a fucking nightmare that became.

With the help of some locals, she got through the mountain of paperwork and now eligible for a charitable grant. A couple of hundred per month for more pots and pans and all the more food and packaging she needed. Now she had volunteers in the kitchen cooking and packaging. She has enough meals rolling out. HERE COMES THE GOVERNMENT. Shut her down because she doesn't have a dual sink, enough overhead ventilation for the cooking area, plumbing sufficient for overhead sprinklers. They even interfered with her meals. "Must serve 2% milk with every meal." "Must serve a certain portion of fruit with every meal" Many of these recepients didn't want this stuff but it had to be served anyway. It was mandated that this stuff was to be delivered and subject to inspection. It got to a point that she said fuck it, I ain't doing this **** no more.

What is my point? There is a difference between what the people need and what the government thinks it needs.

I hope you don't try to prove all your points with limited narrow anecdotal evidence taken in a vacuum. The reality of it is most people that receive benefits that they need would be totally screwed if they had to rely on charity of other people alone or even as they main component of what helps them. The people that think otherwise either have some political and/or ideological agenda they are tying to push, are just about totally detached from the everyday reality of those people, or both because nobody with common sense based off of reality would think of that as anything other than laughable. That's if they story is true in the first place or at least we are getting the whole story. Some of it seem fishy.

Not to mention that if for some reason somebody say got sick in a situation like that or a worker got hurt because there was no safety regulations an organization had to follow all off a sudden those people that were served or worked in the organization would care very much. People bitch about regulations until it saves their asses, and they forget that for the most part the overwhelming majority of them actually have a good reason for existing and isn’t because the government want to be big bad guy that screws with you.