Food insecurity is a real thing

[whitehall]

The word "insecurity" actually means "anxiety" so "food anxiety" is a term psychologists use to keep their sorry asses in their Lexus cars.

 

[Mashmont]

I suspect you are a Libertarian. I have a pretty wide Libertarian streak myself. However, Libertarians have shown they are totally ignorant of human behaviors.

The Libertarian side of me, and my gratitude for the gifts and advantages I have been given, motivated me to start those charities. Then I learned some hard lessons, but also gained even more gratitude for my blessings.

Anyway, I would strongly urge you to discover what life was like before a government safety net and read this book.

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York​

As I explained in post #58, the sole problem 100 years ago was lack of technology to connect givers and receivers. We could do it now easily. I mean, look at fricking Uber.

Somebody like Elon Musk has the wherewithal to launch such a thing. It would take someone with a big heart and big resources who is strong enough to take on the system.

 

[g5000]

The problem in the 1920s was lack of technology to connect givers and recipients. Today, we could handle that easily. It's exactly the way the Christian health co-ops do it. It could be expanded to all programs for the needy.

In Samaritan Ministries, the health care co-op, a participant in need of care, registers the need with Samaritan. Other participants are sent the name and address of the person they will send their monthly "premium" to. It's all arranged perfectly. We are also asked to write letters of encouragement to the recipient.

In 2015, I had a quadriceps tendon rupture. Every single penny was paid for the tests, surgery, and PT. I paid zero. The system works fabulously. The reason it works is because there is no huge pile of money to be stolen. People send money directly to the other members. It could be done that way with everything.

But leftwing politicians would fight this tooth and nail. There is no way they want to cede all that power, wealth, and influence derived from controlling huge piles of money.

I've paid mortgages, medical bills, utilities, rents, funeral expenses, wheelchairs, furniture, clothing, food, auto repairs, you name it. With a wide donor base of very well-off donors.

Still not enough.

 

[g5000]

Well, food is overrated.

Besides, we're tossing out all this food because we didn't want to give it to starving people in other countries after we paid for it. We purposely let it go bad:

US to destroy 500 tons of emergency food aid paid for by tax dollars

It's about the cruelty. It gets 'em off. Makes 'em feel superior 'n stuff. Especially the MAGA Christians™.

If MAGAs didn't have anyone to hate, they would have nothing to do.

 

[marvin martian]

I've paid mortgages, medical bills, utilities, rents, funeral expenses, wheelchairs, furniture, clothing, food, auto repairs, you name it. With a wide donor base of very well-off donors.

Still not enough.

It's never enough for you people.

 

[g5000]

The word "insecurity" actually means "anxiety" so "food anxiety" is a term psychologists use to keep their sorry asses in their Lexus cars.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

 

[whitehall]

Over 100,000 deaths (mostly young kids) were attributed to fentanyl poisoning in 2023 and lefties worry about "food anxiety" in the greatest Country in the world. It beats talking about real issues.

 

[Unkotare]

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Those who deny it lack empathy and should be excluded from your family, your church, your social organizations, your schools. Caveat: do feed their children if they suffer this insecurity. In fact, their children should be removed from parental control.

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Typical democrat attitude, with a straw man thrown in for good measure.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Our schools are not private spaces.

My church certainly is not a private space.

Jesus welcomes everyone into his house, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Jesus can welcome you all you want, but mistreat His children and your ass is grass, sunstone.

Won't have it from the likes of you or anyone who mistreats children.

Yes, my family, my home, my school, my church, your church.

Change you ways, you heathen.

 

[Mashmont]

Well, food is overrated.

Besides, we're tossing out all this food because we didn't want to give it to starving people in other countries after we paid for it. We purposely let it go bad:

US to destroy 500 tons of emergency food aid paid for by tax dollars

It's about the cruelty. It gets 'em off. Makes 'em feel superior 'n stuff. Especially the MAGA Christians™.

You leftwingers don't understand how things work. #1. Starvation has been reduced 98% since 1970. #2 Where people are starving, corrupt governments steal the food and give it to their soldiers, as in North Korea.

I would like to also tell you how buffet restaurants work: Employees come in the morning and prepare gobs of food for the day. At the end of the day, they have no choice but to throw it away. (Farmers come in and make it available to their hogs). Now your average person would say "How horrible! Why not feed the homeless after hours?" But what would happen if the restuarants did that? At 9:30 p.m, you would have hundreds of "homeless" people descend upon the restaurant. You would also have many folks claiming to be homeless who don't want to pay $12.95 for a buffet meal. The restaurant would have to supply, at the very least, hundreds of carryout containers per day. They would have to hire personnel to load the food into the containers and stay behind distributing them. Then there is the cleanup associated with hundreds of folks coming and going. All these things together would cost the restaurant thousdands of dollars. So the "obvious" thing isn't always workable, and it has nothing to do with a lack of compassion.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The problem in the 1920s was lack of technology to connect givers and recipients. Today, we could handle that easily. It's exactly the way the Christian health co-ops do it. It could be expanded to all programs for the needy.

In Samaritan Ministries, the health care co-op, a participant in need of care, registers the need with Samaritan. Other participants are sent the name and address of the person they will send their monthly "premium" to. It's all arranged perfectly. We are also asked to write letters of encouragement to the recipient.

In 2015, I had a quadriceps tendon rupture. Every single penny was paid for the tests, surgery, and PT. I paid zero. The system works fabulously. The reason it works is because there is no huge pile of money to be stolen. People send money directly to the other members. It could be done that way with everything.

But leftwing politicians would fight this tooth and nail. There is no way they want to cede all that power, wealth, and influence derived from controlling huge piles of money.

Yet you great charitable givers do not but fill a thimble full for every gallon needed.

The government does that.

 

[Mac1958]

You leftwingers

 

[Rogue AI]

Yet you great charitable givers do not but fill a thimble full for every gallon needed.

The government does that.

Yet it is your comrades on the left who are the least charitable group around. GFY.

 

[Mashmont]

Yet you great charitable givers do not but fill a thimble full for every gallon needed.

The government does that.

That's my point. Because the government does so much, charitiable giving is reduced. That's why we need to remove government from these programs. Let charity flourish! That's the way of Jesus, anyway.

 

[Mashmont]

Yet it is your comrades on the left who are the least charitable group around. GFY.

That's true too. Government involvement lets rank and file leftwingers off the hook.

 

[Mashmont]

You stopped reading after that, didn't you?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Yet it is your comrades on the left who are the least charitable group around. GFY.

Does not matter. You are not doing your share either, apparently.

 

[Mac1958]

You stopped reading after that, didn't you?

Sure did!

 

[Mashmont]

Sure did!

Well read it and learn something. You probably didn't know how buffets operate.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

at least we put away the idea that food insecurity or food anxiety (thank you for this!) is not a real thing.