Food Banks are in Crisis in America
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Spring is in the air, time to clean out the pantry, wow we have all kinds of food we never use, so do like we do & support your local Food Bank. FOOD BANK'S ARE TRUE AMERICAN HEROES!!! SUPPORT AMERICA, SUPPORT A FOOD BANK, I DARE YOU!
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Close to a year later after this report ...Americans are still huge as ever. I don't think there's a food shortage.
The economy will be bad for years to come, but Americans skinny again? Come on.
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@AnduinX Here is what is wrong with your assumption. In the past 30 years, wages have gone down while taxes have gone up. As long as we still have a little cash in our pockets welfare IS sustainable. If you can't get blood from a turnip just squeeze harder. When people can no longer pay, our government just puts them in prison. Child support is a great example. Lose your job and can't pay, guess where you go. Then they come and take all your assets. As long as you have something, they will take.
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@kuei1248: Pile our entitlement culture on top of our existing debt and already failing economy and you have a recipe for breakdown. When the welfare checks stop coming we'll have riots and violence - similar to Greece, and they certainly will stop coming.
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@kuei1248: The worker's acceptance of their exploitation won't stop the collapse of the welfare system. The collapse will be mechanical, no rebellion need happen, because the ratio of people who mooch versus people who work is shifting towards the mooches. As time progresses this will only worsen as more people mooch and less people work. Last year our government paid more in entitlements alone (nevermind the other stuff) then it took in from taxes. It's simply not sustainable.
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@AnduinX My ex-wife is on welfare. She is capable of working but has NO interest. She gets free food, a free 3 bedroom brick house to live in, free money, free medical, free legal (to attack me), free education (she has no use for), free utilities, free transportation and best of all, free sympathy from people too stupid to realize that she is ripping them off. It will NOT come crashing down because working americans are too weak to fight back.
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@AnduinX You are correct to a point. It is not just the government's fault. You can't blame the government because you want to be paid $1000/week compared to $25 per week. It is also true that we should have import tariffs. But, to be realistic, the most powerful person in america is the consumer. In the end, you get what you pay for. And if you keep letting politicians work against you it is your fault. The French know how to keep government in line. Americans are just weak and stupid.
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@kuei1248: and yeah, our welfare culture disgusts me. It won't continue for much longer though, it's all going to come crashing down soon. My hope for the US is that when it comes crashing down we will revert to a small government non-welfare state.
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@kuei1248: I understood what you were saying in your first post. My point is the problem here is not the people, it's our government that is making us uncompetitive. If we had a free market we would be able to compete on the same level as them, if not better, and the whole thing would be a non-issue. The government is artificially increasing the price of our goods and we are all suffering for it.
Economic Warfare and the US is getting Owned !
Icanwalkonwater09 2 years ago 10
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Looks like the person in the red shirt is getting enough food eh? Am I right?!? Come on you were all thinking it... :P
AnduinX 2 years ago 10