I'm curious. How many of you have been on food stamps, or, used the food bank? Do you know what kind of food is offered, and how much at the food bank? I deliver produce for Backyard Harvest. Two bags of food to last a month, for one person. In those two bags, is about enough food for a week, week and a half, maximum. What then?<br>
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Janesta<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Donovan Arnold <<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Food Banks Vs. Quest Cards</div> <div> </div> <div>Food Banks win hands down for three major reasons.</div> <div> </div> <div>1) Fraud. People that don't claim income get food stamps. </div> <div> </div> <div>
2) Cost: It costs more to create an entire bureau of the government to establish regulations, enforce them, and distribute funds and cards which a food bank does not have.</div> <div> </div> <div>3) Access. There are a large number of people that gross more than $940 a month but still need assistance in purchasing food and other needed items. Expecting people to survive, especially those with a disability or the elderly that need medical assistance, on $940 a month is joke, if not criminal. People that are making above $940 a month can get food from a food bank without the hassle, humiliation, and frustration. </div>
<div> </div> <div>I would cut the food stamp program by about 2/3, and give the money to
private organizations with a solid record of providing services to the poor and those in need. </div> <div> </div> <div>Best Regards,</div> <div> </div> <div>Donovan<br><br><b><i>"Kai Eiselein, Editor" <<a href="mailto:editor@lataheagle.com" target="_blank">editor@lataheagle.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">I don't know about today, with the "Quest cards" and all, but there used to <br>be a thriving black market for paper food stamps.<br>
Recipients would simply sell their stamps for about half of the face value, <br>allowing them to purchase booze, drugs smokes... whatever their vice was.<br>Government programs cannot and will not ever be as efficient as private <br>
programs for the simple fact that the government has no motivation to do <br>anything efficiently, after all it can just keep sucking money from the <br>average working American.<br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>
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"Dave" <br>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:50 AM<br>To: "vision2020" <br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Economist Rankings of the World's Greatest<br><br>> How about food stamps?<br>><br>> Dave<br>
><br>><br>> g. crabtree wrote:<br>>> Spoken like a man who can't come up with a coherent answer for a rather<br>>> straight forward question.<br>>><br>>> "Just what mechanism for assistance do you envision that an "affluent and<br>
>> technologically advanced" nation might come up with that would be less<br>>> shameful?"<br>>><br>>> Perhaps you simply were confused by my presentation. I'll try again.<br>>><br>
>> Privately operated food banks efficiently provide a needed service. How <br>>> do<br>>> you think it could be done better?<br>>><br>>> g<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>><br>><br>
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