Local food banks/pantries

[Alan]

I've been active for years on a large firearms forum, so mostly conservatives. They're celebrating SNAP ending in less than a week, saying the fatties will get to lose some weight. They're breathlessly waiting for riots when SNAP is totally cut off some day. Some are hoping churches and food pantries won't pick up the slack and that poor folks will have to actually work to eat.

Have you considered contacting your state's Democratic Senators and asking them to re-open the government? That would probably make a difference.

[Tradd]

Already have.

[frugal-one]

Have you considered contacting your state's Democratic Senators and asking them to re-open the government? That would probably make a difference.

Have the republicans agree before opening the government to continue subsidies so health insurance is affordable for multitudes of Americans. The continued shut down is the republicans fault. They are in control of everything… congress, senate and supreme court.

[frugal-one]

I've been active for years on a large firearms forum, so mostly conservatives. They're celebrating SNAP ending in less than a week, saying the fatties will get to lose some weight. They're breathlessly waiting for riots when SNAP is totally cut off some day. Some are hoping churches and food pantries won't pick up the slack and that poor folks will have to actually work to eat.

What a bunch of morons. I hope they have hard times to see how ridiculous they are being.

[iris lilies]

I've been active for years on a large firearms forum, so mostly conservatives. They're celebrating SNAP ending in less than a week, saying the fatties will get to lose some weight. They're breathlessly waiting for riots when SNAP is totally cut off some day. Some are hoping churches and food pantries won't pick up the slack and that poor folks will have to actually work to eat.

No one in Missouri or Kansas should watch Caleb Hammer’s latest podcast where he gives financial advice to a single mom who is hell-bent on digging herself further and further into big debt and she’s on food stamps because she doesn’t want to work. She actually says that she does not want to work. She is a resident of Kansas City so I suspect I will be getting the bill for her food stamps although US tax payers get to the play that game, too.

edited to add: I watched further into this video and see that her boyfriend doesn’t pay income tax tax, he just skips it. And she also doesn’t admit to living with him, but there’s some evidence that they do live together and she’s not admitting it so that she can pull down benefits,. This woman is very unhappy with the state of our country and blames Donald Trump for all our problems, but I love the way this couple doesn’t pay taxes yet takes their food stamps.

I will say I ran into some odd YouTube videos that quickly revealed themselves to be fake content, they were click bait videos put up for outrage viewing. They were fake welfare moms complaining about how $8000 a month in food stamp benefits were being cut. These are obviously fake because no one gets that outrageous amount, and also one of them showed a letter from “the Department of Health and Human Services” about the cut in food stamps. Ummmm, it is the Department of agriculture that administers food stamps.

So, there is a market for genning up up outrage in this subject and someone is making money from it.

[iris lilies]

in my very red congressional district I’ve already detailed some of the food pantry options here, but we also have two “little food pantries “in town, one in front of the Methodist Church and one at the public park riverfront. I don’t know who maintains them, but there is an effort to keep them filled.

[catherine]

No one in Missouri ir Kansas should watch Caleb Hammer’s latest podcast where he gives financial advice to a single mom who is hell-bent on digging herself further and further into big debt and she’s on food stamps because she doesn’t want to work. She actually says that she does not want to work. She us a resident of Kansas City so I suspect I will be getting the bill for her food stamps although US tax payers get to the play that game, too.

I will say I ran into you some odd YouTube videos that quickly revealed themselves to be fake content, they were click bait videos put up for outrage viewing. They were fake welfare moms complaining about how $8000 a month in food stamp benefits were being cut. These are obviously fake because no one gets that outrageous amount, and also one of them showed a letter from “the Department of Health and Human Services” about the cut in food stamps. Ummmm, it is the Department of agriculture that administers food stamps.

So, there is a market for genning up up outrage in this subjevt and someone is making money from it.

Maddening.

I think I've said it here (and I'm pretty sure I have) that I consider abuse of safety net help by the poor to simply be by-catch. It's good to try to avoid it in your net if you can, but you expect it to some degree. I would rather tolerate the by-catch than have poor families go without critical food and shelter. Especially when abuse is not purely the domain of the poor. Abuse is practiced by people of all stripes.

[Tradd]

Maddening.

I think I've said it here (and I'm pretty sure I have) that I consider abuse of safety net help by the poor to simply be by-catch. It's good to try to avoid it in your net if you can, but you expect it to some degree. I would rather tolerate the by-catch than have poor families go without critical food and shelter. Especially when abuse is not purely the domain of the poor. Abuse is practiced by people of all stripes.

Absolutely.

[Tradd]

After my priest made the announcement about the food pantry drive, I made a short little comment about how cash goes further, using the $1 donation provides $8 worth of groceries figure from the Northern IL Food Bank website. I said I know people like to donate tangible stuff, but cash goes further. A number of folks told me afterwards they didn't know that. Probably 30 people told me they were going home and donating. I was very happy to hear that.

[iris lilies]

After my priest made the announcement about the food pantry drive, I made a short little comment about how cash goes further, using the $1 donation provides $8 worth of groceries figure from the Northern IL Food Bank website. I said I know people like to donate tangible stuff, but cash goes further. A number of folks told me afterwards they didn't know that. Probably 30 people told me they were going home and donating. I was very happy to hear that.

That’s good Tradd. A lot of charitable organizations have trouble getting across a message that cash is king and there are reasons for that.

The organization wants to encourage donations and gifts and especially participation at any level. To be overly specific in donation requests would seem ungrateful. but the reality is the organization knows what they need better than anyone else, at least I need to trust that they know.

I don’t donate to human welfare generally, but I know this from animal rescue. Our rescue storage shed is full of donated cages, blankets, dog toys, etc., etc. but it’s the cash that pays the vet bills.