GaryK wrote:We have been working with a family of 5 that gets around $900.00/month in food money. The wife complained once that she was so ready to get her next month's amount because they were tired of eating chicken every night for dinner. She also once complained that they had to eat pork 3 evenings in a row because they didn't have anything else.
Last year she began working one day per week for a family in our church who run a bakery/coffee shoppe, working about 4 hours per week. Her monthly take home pay averaged less than $150.00. When she went to reapply for her food benefits she discovered they were going to cut the amount by $200.00.
Meanwhile, the family in our church she worked for has been struggling to make ends meet with 9 in the family and for a time were doing without meat in their diet.
Looking at all this it doesn't take a genius to figure out that something is in serious need of reform and I'm happy to see that the conversation is taking place.
Great real-life example.
to repeat, some years ago, we accepted food stamps for a few weeks.
no where near $900/mo! (2 children)
never in my life, before, or since, did we have such a generous food budget! i still remember the shocked feeling of food shopping without concern of cost. it was an other-worldly feeling.
honestly, the way things are for me now, i read this, fighting tears. not that i need a lot of food!!
i’m doing fine. it would be luxurious to be forced to eat chicken or pork daily, while simply waiting for “better” to come in a few days.
for those who care, U.S. founders were “hep” to political corruption, manipulating lawmakers.
instructions (to those freely inheriting what they structured) warned to hold “representatives” accountable! - they knew full-well, lack of accountability in humans/human constructs leads to no good.
there is no “once+done.” we are lazy fools, really-really want everything to be “once+done.”
nothing in scriptures suggests this temporal world is about “once+done.”
i agree, regular maintenance is a necessity. there is room for improvement.
when the barn roof needs fixing: it does not auto-repair.
in this thread, members like mike and appleman have special insights.
they own businesses in the food industry, have first-person experience with food, vendors, gov, and customers of all description ..
they are not political lobbyists in D.C. ..
and, for them, this topic is not an idle exercise in internet rhetorics/politics.
imho.