Canceling Food Program

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Covid pandemic error is over, basically true but prices has doubled, almost tripled on most food purchases. Biden in December just expanded the program for another year why not let the program continue the remaining of the Year giving schools and food banks and such time to try to adjust. Why; they don't give a hoot, unless it's spent on golfing trips on their pleasure.

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ShenaniganFoodie · 36-40, M

Same price for the last 3 years

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🚨***PRE ORDERS FOR THURSDAY 3RD***🚨
***🔥BUTTER CHICKEN $20 🔥***
OR
***🔥CREAMY TUSCAN PRAWNS $20 🔥***
$20ea with free delivery to Smiths/Palms
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Hey Foodies!
! have 2 big comfort meals this week.
Last time we cooked these dishes we had great reviews from many of you.Get in quick as there are limited spots.
Choice of dishes:
🔥Butter Chicken - is a type of curry chicken that is made from spices, tomato,butter and more🤤 great meal for the whole family.
Very mild but packs a heap of flavour!
Served with rice
🔥Creamy Tuscan prawns - pan fried prawns cooked in a creamy italian sauce with sun dried tomato and spinach leaves.
Served on rice
Please note I accept Cash (I carry change) or we have Eftpos - both available on delivery
Cheers!
Like always:
🙏First in best dressed - Limited spots.
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🙏Please no late minute cancellations .
🚨Delivery will start approx 5.00pm in Smiths then Palms (approx 6pm)
🚨$20 each bowl with free delivery to palms/smiths🚨
Cheers

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Convivial · 26-30, F

The wonders of efficiency... What will happen is this.
1 the same amount of food will be produced
2 there won't be as many buyers due to cuts to food aid programs
3 people will go hungry while farmers have food left rotting in the field
4 farmers will demand and get aid, compensation

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@Convivial last I checked, US farmers produced something like 4000 calories a day for every man, woman and child in the US, plenty enough food to make us all obese. The US also imports volumes of food from elsewhere around the globe, to the point where those foods knock homegrown off the shelves of US supermarkets because of uneven regulations. Leveling the playing fields will mean that we in the US can enjoy shrimp from US shrimpers rather than from Shrimp from Asian shrimpers, maple syrup from US producers rather than Canadian producers, citrus from the US rather than from Central America.

Excess foods can be converted to bio fuels,

My experience with feeding programs says that that we are overstuffing Americas poor. Add WIC, SNAP, free school meals, and outreach programs like Harvesters together and the outcome is obese children. Yes, we have the hungry poor, but that’s because we lack adults to feed the poor or distribute what’s sitting in warehouses. And because regulations facilitate food deserts and politicians have destroyed our micro economy.

KunsanVeteran · M

@Convivial What bothers me the most is that the programs which feed the children are being cut. You don’t see the conservative “Evangelical Christians” who voted for tRUMP taking over those programs, do you?

My church use to have a food bank. It cost us a lot, but it filled a big need in the community. There were no conditions put on its use, many local businesses helped support us. Eventually, the unemployment went down, wages came up, and Public Aid became sufficient that the need went away and the program died by attrition.

You can bet that the MAGAs don’t gave a damn about the damage they’re causing…

Convivial · 26-30, F

@KunsanVeteran they don't... Up until the point it starts to affect them...

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

The irony is that America is likely to build up a huge food surplus as a result of Trump's tariff war. The ideal opportunity to alleviate hunger and bring down prices for everyone. But that will not happen if it threatens anyone's profit margin or frustrates Musk's mission to destroy the welfare state. What a senseless and tragic waste.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@SunshineGirl The money the US then collects in tariffs can then be used to buy the excess foods which can then be distributed to the American people free of charge. It’s the “Peter-Paul” principle. What’s taken from Peter can be given to Paul.

MasterLee · 56-60, M

Waste of money.

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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@Heartlander Watch the video. The programs cut are school meals and foodbanks. School breakfasts and lunches which are often the only square meal that a child will get to eat. Most of the produce supplied is locally sourced fruit and vegetables.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@SunshineGirl If a school lunch is the only meal a child gets, someone needs to visit the home and ask mom aboutwhat she is doing with those snap payments.

The main cause of people being evicted from public housing is drugs. The next is undocumented cohabitants. I.e. a live in boyfriend kept under radar who eats the kids food but doesn’t share his income. Or the fact that food stamps don’t cover diapers and food stamps get traded for pampers.

I’m not against live in boyfriends, or free school lunches, or the poor. I’m against government systems that fail to provide solutions to fit the circumstances. ALL school lunches should be free for all the kids. Take that off the table, and make a corresponding adjustment to food stamps. Most public housing projects have sufficient number of people to support food service for everyone, I.e. a chow hall like they on military installations. Also a commissary Where essentials can be purchased at low cost.

Public housing projects in the US seem they were intentionally designed to isolate the poor rather than accommodate and support an escape from poverty.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@Heartlander I agree with most of what you say, but such a level of monitoring and accountability would require an expansion rather than a contraction of government. And getting back to the original post . . an efficient program which benefited multiple sections of the population, has been arbitrarily cut by a man who is not overly concerned about rising levels of poverty or malnutrition.

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