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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on August 04, 2009, 06:23:17 PM
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Stuart G (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-04-09 06:21 PM
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Food Bank Report..Chicago Area
I went by the Niles Township Food Bank today to make a donation. People were waiting in line and in the halls. It looked extremely busy and backed up. This foodbank is in a middle class suburb, Skokie, with an average family income of over $50,000 a year
I am wondering what the situation is like around the country. Any other experiences or reports?
Thanks...
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Busy or empty food banks mean only one thing: If you have food to give away, no matter how much of it you've got, someone will take it. There will always be and has always been an insatiable demand for free or dirt cheap food. People love free stuff. Busy food banks are no different from how groups of people scramble after a foul ball at a baseball game. And there's no shortage of baseballs. It's just that TV stations send cameras to food banks whenever socialists want to talk about how America has failed.
SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-04-09 06:21 PM
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1. We proles are hungry, while Republicon fatcats engorge themselves
that's a fact.
I can't deny engorging myself, although my wife tries to keep it under control. Tonight we're having veal scallopini. The cruelty just gives it a special sweet taste. On the other hand, you proles are the fattest bunch I've ever seen. Starvation doesn't seem to be gaining much of a foothold within the American prole population.
Stuart G (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-04-09 06:27 PM
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3. I am kinda in awe...Here we are in one of the wealthiest countries
on earth, with the richest farmland in the world, with people starving. Waiting for handouts from the food bank. What has happened?
Tell me, DUmmy Stuart G, which one of those fatasses loading up on Pringles at the food bank are starving? Is it DUmmy greenbriar? And by the way, I thought when the jug-eared Kenyan messsiah was elected, he was going to have manna delivered to your door? What happened?
abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-04-09 06:29 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. We have the world's shittiest
distribution system.
Yeah, if you don't want to work, you have to go pick up your free food. The delivery system still isn't working very well.
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I thought this was all gonna end when Obozo got in office? :whatever:
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I think it's funny that "abumbyanyothername" posted in this thread.
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I think it's funny that "abumbyanyothername" posted in this thread.
abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-04-09 06:29 PM
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4. We have the world's shittiest
distribution system.
You think ours is bad, you should see the food distribution in most African countries. If by chance DUmmie, you were talking about the food distribution for food banks, then I'd say you were wrong about, too. Considering that most are all volunteer, they do a good job. Just wait until the bread lines start under Dear Leaders collapsed economy, then you'll see shitty distribution.
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Busy or empty food banks mean only one thing: If you have food to give away, no matter how much of it you've got, someone will take it. There will always be and has always been an insatiable demand for free or dirt cheap food. People love free stuff. Busy food banks are no different from how groups of people scramble after a foul ball at a baseball game. And there's no shortage of baseballs. It's just that TV stations send cameras to food banks whenever socialists want to talk about how America has failed.
Ain't that the truth.
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I went to a food bank once to do a site inspection of the operation before donating. I didn't speak spanish so there was nobody that could help me at that time. Lots of 'citizens' with three-four young kids hanging with heaped carts.
Sorry, I did not donate.
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I went to a food bank once to do a site inspection of the operation before donating. I didn't speak spanish so there was nobody that could help me at that time. Lots of 'citizens' with three-four young kids hanging with heaped carts.
Sorry, I did not donate.
But thousands are starving..... :whatever: :whatever: :whatever: :bs:
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-04-09 06:29 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. We have the world's shittiest
distribution system.
The day has only begun, yet I'm nominating this for the stupidest post of the day, perhaps the week. I'm in the food distribution business. What exactly is bumbles seeing that isn't close to flawless? Acreages of well-stocked grocery stores. Myriad restaurants offering a wide variety of choice. Safe, high quality products and reasonable prices. What, the free stuff bumbles is complaining about? Soup kitchens have to operate at the high, strict standards of the finest restaurants. Food stamps spend at those acreages of grocery stores. There's not a f***ing thing wrong with our food distribution system, and bumbles has insulted me deeply.
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The day has only begun, yet I'm nominating this for the stupidest post of the day, perhaps the week. I'm in the food distribution business. What exactly is bumbles seeing that isn't close to flawless? Acreages of well-stocked grocery stores. Myriad restaurants offering a wide variety of choice. Safe, high quality products and reasonable prices. What, the free stuff bumbles is complaining about? Soup kitchens have to operate at the high, strict standards of the finest restaurants. Food stamps spend at those acreages of grocery stores. There's not a f***ing thing wrong with our food distribution system, and bumbles has insulted me deeply.
How many other countries allow you to buy fresh fruits and vegetables year around at mostly reasonable prices?
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How many other countries allow you to buy fresh fruits and vegetables year around at mostly reasonable prices?
Key word there is "BUY".....DUmmie wants it free put in his/her kitchen.
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The day has only begun, yet I'm nominating this for the stupidest post of the day, perhaps the week. I'm in the food distribution business. What exactly is bumbles seeing that isn't close to flawless? Acreages of well-stocked grocery stores. Myriad restaurants offering a wide variety of choice. Safe, high quality products and reasonable prices. What, the free stuff bumbles is complaining about? Soup kitchens have to operate at the high, strict standards of the finest restaurants. Food stamps spend at those acreages of grocery stores. There's not a f***ing thing wrong with our food distribution system, and bumbles has insulted me deeply.
Not only that, but most schools have programs where they provide one or two free (or super reduced) meals to low income students. Parents of those children only need to provide one meal per day for their children.
If DUmmie abumbyanyothername really thinks we have such an awful food distribution system, then they have never bother to take a look at international news.
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-04-09 06:29 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. We have the world's shittiest
distribution system
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OMG! You are sooooooooooooo right! It's so bad a REALITY SHOW had contestants work at one of those shitty distribution centers. You know, the ones that look state-of-the-art. But this is the USA, so that must have been an impossibility.
Friggin tool.
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-04-09 06:29 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. We have the world's shittiest
distribution system
Oh so right. A far better way is how they do it in the middle east and africa. Bring the donated food on trucks to a mob and throw it out at them. Then the mob fights for the food where the strongest win. However, the most important point is that someone else paid for it and that makes it, like the obumbler, the bestest ever.
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Or Somalia, where the warlords and "government" just go ahead and steal it. That's perfect. Excuse me, I have to go out to the state of the art warehouse and see to something regarding a legitimate transaction.
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The day has only begun, yet I'm nominating this for the stupidest post of the day, perhaps the week. I'm in the food distribution business. What exactly is bumbles seeing that isn't close to flawless? Acreages of well-stocked grocery stores. Myriad restaurants offering a wide variety of choice. Safe, high quality products and reasonable prices. What, the free stuff bumbles is complaining about? Soup kitchens have to operate at the high, strict standards of the finest restaurants. Food stamps spend at those acreages of grocery stores. There's not a f***ing thing wrong with our food distribution system, and bumbles has insulted me deeply.
Karin is exactly on target. It's amazing how every store keeps every one of thousands of items in stock, many of them 24 hours per day.
I have only one complaint. I would gladly pay $20 per dozen for fresh Midwest sweet corn. Maybe more. But in-season edible fresh produce is for some reason unavailable in middle Tennessee. There are no farms, due to a lack of soil, but there are trucks. There are enough transplanted people here, who know what fresh produce is, and mourn its unavailability, you could charge almost any price. The local produce, even at "farmers' markets", would hardly be used to fatten livestock in other regions of the country. Most of it seems to have been on trucks for at least a week, although fertile produce farms are within six hours driving time.
For the past ten years or so, gardens have been impossible, devoured instantly by deer. Otherwise I would grow my own, as I did before the deer plague.
There is a lot of money here to be made by anyone who can figure out how to supply the demand. I can buy Nova Scotia lobsters, but Iowa Chief is impossible?
Does this same condition exist in other barren areas, like the desert Southwest?
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When I hear the term "Starving Proles", why do the gigantic primitive, undergroundpanther, fister, and any number of hugely fat DUmmies come to mind?
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Too bad we don't have a distribution system equal to that of the best in communist logistics. Capitalist pigs offer us choices and quantities in order to create food-borne metabolic diseases, thus slaving us to the corporate health industrial complex. The glorious socialist utopia would offer us just what we need.
(http://kenth.razorsedgeau.com/sovietgrocery.jpg)
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Too bad we don't have a distribution system equal to that of the best in communist logistics. Capitalist pigs offer us choices and quantities in order to create food-borne metabolic diseases, thus slaving us to the corporate health industrial complex. The glorious socialist utopia would offer us just what we need.
Venezuela is about to become a net importer of coffee. Imagine that. They already import sugar from Cuba, deliveries are now fodder for the TV newscasts. Shortages have struck for everything from chicken to milk. "Long term milk" (powdered milk and water, apparently) have dwindled to a few brands, mostly unknown to Venezuelans who complain about the globules of dry milk floating in it.
But the Revolution continues to find support from American leftists.