Free food

I am wondering if all areas of the county are seeing what’s going on here. A large truck parks in a place and puts out a huge piece of plywood that says free food. Only the “poor” are eligible to get it. It’s been going on for a couple months like clockwork. They’re selling what they get or taking some of it and then throwing the rest in a ditch down the road. It’s a’kin to the free cheese but bigger. Cottage cheese, sour cream, garlic, potatoes, cabbage, apples, beef stew ready to heat and eat, Starbucks coffee pods.

When they show the cars lined up for free food, it always amuses me the number of Mercedes, Cadillacs, and other high end vehicles that are in line.

I like to think its because they are in debt so deep for those fancy cars and houses keeping up the image of the American dream and they get tired of eating spam.

When I was in middle and high school there was a ritzy sub division just north of my hometown. It was the place to live if you wanted to be known as someone in the in crowd. Funny thing was there were houses up there that cost $300,000+ (a ton of money back then) and had a couple luxury cars in the garage but had zero furniture, no drapes, no decorations, nothing but empty rooms. The people who bought them and their high end cars spent everything they had to look rich, but in reality they were in debt way more than they could afford and were living on the edge, all just to appear to be something they weren't. Pretty darn sad really.

Our Sheriff’s Office is right across the street from the food bank located in the Courthouse. Some of the people that take all the free stuff are just budgeting their drinking/drug money for the nights and weekends ahead. We had one guy that offered a “handout services tour” to newcomers for a piece of the action of course. LOL

they did it here several times last fall anyone gets it semi load of food you get 3 lbs potatoes... 5 lbs of chicken patties... some canned goods ,,, id say ebough food to feed 2 ppl for a week.. i cant figgure it out they are grooming us for socialism ... im sure gov is paying for it ... called feed sd .org. but ya cant get to the root of who is promoting it..there are ads on tv there doing iit again soon..

Sounds like pre- baiting to me.

I worked at a free food bank, it was once a month. I seen some real nice car and trucks. Then I got thinking, maybe both husband and wife was working and got nice things, then he or she got sick, or lost there jobs. I was glad the food bank could help them. Our Jr. woman's club pays $500.00 a month to have the food delivered.

Yea I thought of that too. I had a job eliminated by new management and took a $30,000 dollar pay cut per year. It stung but I budgeted well enough that food banks weren't required. Of course the amount of high end autos lined up for 'free' food seems to suggest that there's more to it that just lost jobs.
BTW, it's good of you to work at the food bank Getting There.

If somebody with a nice car gets "free" groceries does that mean somebody with a not nice car does not? If anybody that wants "free" groceries is getting "free" groceries who cares if they have a nice car or not?

Everyone that drives up get free food as it should be, we have a few people that can not get out that they take food to one a month. As it should be. Not everyone has transportation or able to get out do to health issues.

I think "free" food is supposed to be for the needy. I know of a grandmother, mom, and daughter combination that "play" about five food banks. Around Thanksgiving each household has 5 turkeys a piece with all the fixins included. Three generations of welfare recipients without a desire to get a job and buy their own food.
As for the nice cars, maybe they can afford a high payment because it seems they do not have to have a budget for food.

I work at a food bank, I unload all the trucks and store all the cases, but I’ve also helped a few days with distribution. Most of the people coming are older, most I’d say are on SSI or SSDI. A few younger people, but for the most part, they appear to be wore out folks with limited resources. A few show up that have drinking problems, I’m sure there’s probably a drug addict in the mix. Food is distributed once a month, and you must be preregistered and meet income guidelines to receive food. Everyone helping there are volunteers, and funding come from donations and state grants.

Since last spring, the Federal government has put in place a bimonthly food giveaway at several different locations in the township. There is no income limits on those receiving food. You don’t give your name, show any ID, you don’t even need to live in the township, you simply drive up and people put the boxes in your vehicle. This is what many people are seeing on the news...long lines of traffic waiting for free food. I can say from my first hand knowledge that many in line are not hungry or needy, as being reported by the media. And yes, most of the vehicles lined are are far nicer than what I drive. I’ve seen BMWs, Escalades, and $60,000 pickups in the lines. People are going simply because it’s free. They go every two weeks, and the number of folks coming to the monthly food bank is dropping, as the feds are giving up better food. These giveaways are being paid through monies from the first COVID relief bill, and I’m told some of the distribution staffing are being paid by the government.

I think these bimonthly giveaways should have run their course by now, if they were even necessary in the first place. I know all school lunches at the local school districts are now free, to every kid, regardless of income. More fed money. All these freebies from the feds has gotta end sometime.

If the food items are nearing the "best by" date, it could be given away and taken as a tax credit by a big box store. However, I was called to a Walmart distribution center once and hauled a 30 cubic yard box of caramel apples to the landfill for some reason..........ordered too many or whatever. Other drivers have done the same with produce that hadn't got moved in time.

When I was remodeling Kroger stores they would throw away large amounts of produce per day. I asked ,at several different stores, if I could take this produce to help 'build' my garden. Was told that they would but couldn't because it violated some .gov regulation.

the few times I worked the food bank , the hardest thing to see is people with zero cooking skills they can take X amount of boxed foods , but they could take all the pintos and potatoes they wanted . there were often big pieces of meat near expiration , no one seemed to want any on it. sometimes whole turkeys frozen

ham an pintos will feed you a long time , a 10 pound ham frozen , so you cut it up and re-freeze in smaller chunks well they just didn't know how.

you would think we have the ability to educate so well , just not sure people want to take the time to be educated.

many times the nicer cars are the ones built better and so you can drive them longer when they are already depreciated they are the better used market. of course probably many other reasons.

The desire for people to pass out donated food and Pat themselves on the back is far greater than the need.

I've never seen anyone in America that looks like they are starving

There’s a weekly harvesters food pantry truck in the next town over. What always amazes me is the Amish will pay for a ride to town to get in line. It should be available to anyone but for a community that suppose to be self sufficient and avoids the “English ways”, kind of a double standard to me.

B

I got canned pie filling for bear bait once, the gal at food pantry said the shelf could not hold anymore. People that came in would take a frozen pie or day old but did not want to make one.

Seen similar with EBT program you could sell a truck load of rocket pops (flavored water) pizzas, chicken wings but never anything that required a dish and scooping. Unwrap eat and toss a stick was the in thing!

Exactly !! but not getting the free food doesnt stop the adgenda.... socialism is comeing.... i dont know how to fight it !

That was my idea too. Get enough of the masses to accept it makes it easier to implement. Someone, somewhere has paid for it along the line. It’s to the point now that just talking about it gets people fuzzed up because they or someone in their family is taking the bait.

As with many things, create a desire, a demand, and then you've created a dependency. Follow the money trail.

After you hear the I lost my wallet story from people over the years looking for ministerial aid along the interstate needing such things as gas, food or a motel room. The one thing is not one of those unfortunate people ever tried to repay the fund back not once as it was never the real intention to begin with.

So you all are saying there are some unscrupulous people in this world? Say it ain't so. lol

i went through and got it several times.... i look at it like farmer gettin his preventive planting check... ill go through again if its handy....... i dont need it .... ive paid my share of tax money to the gov.. and state. state excise tax,income tax, unemploment ins tax on employees. 15% of payroll,,, sure i deduct 7.5 off the employees check but it feels like i pay the whole thing.. no wonder im broke...lol

What get me a lot of people in my home town that get in line with the more expensive cars/trucks will show up in line 2-3 hours ahead of time I'm guessing their afraid of having to wait any longer to get their free food.

Plus if you can afford to driver a $50,000 - $75,000 vehicle and are getting free food my thought would be try possibly living within your means. I have no problem with anybody on hard times or scraping by, but what bothers me is the people who don't need the hand out taking advantage of the situation.

I’d say of people at the top end are getting it that don’t need it then someone at the bottom end that really needs it won’t be getting it, big difference between the needs and the wants.

Starving in America

Starving in other countries

Just another example of a good cause and program abused by the system

Not abused by the system--abused by some of the participants
Tom

You're correct

Watched a guy tied up next to me come down and dump out a 50 lb box of frozen sockeye onto his deck. He was cutting it up for halibut bait. Said he got it at the food bank

They have a thing around here called Ruby's Pantry. Pay $20 for a share and you get a mix of food, really varies from one time to the next. No income requirements etc , and you do see some of the most wealthy penny pinchers around using it! Unfortunately a lot of it is very processed and less than high quality. But sometimes it's a heck of a deal. You always get your money worth and it puts a lot of close dated and outdated food to use that might otherwise go to waste. I'm not affeaid of eating well kept barely outdated food of most sorts, some people think you pass that date and it's automatically garbage. Happy trapping! ScottW

If you worry about somebody of means getting a handout that dosnt need it you never will get any in the hands of those that do . It's like the vaccine roll out they were so worried about somebody bucking the line they were willing to throw away a third or half of the doses away when the approved recipients didnt show rather than anybody not approved getting a dose

They had it in our town around Christmas time. We picked up 4 boxes to give out to 4 families that didn’t have transportation. We ended up coming home with 4 cabbages, 2 bags of carrots and 2 bags of potatoes because all the people wanted were the frozen stuff and the milk. They didn’t want no veggies. In each box was a letter from Trump about the free food. Can’t quite remember what it said.

I worked at a youth academy before going to the Sheriffs Office it was considered a non-profit but the owner in the front office was considered a for profit management company. Trucks would shown up loaded with things I never knew were even considered a commodity and it was good stuff thousands of dollars worth but in the end it saved the front office money yet they always complained about the food costs.

Ask the mouse about free food

You just need to be the 2nd mouse then.

Exactly, modern problems require modern solutions.

Anybody can get free food here if they want it any time they want it.You dont even have to go get it.Since Covid they deliver a big box of goodies once a week.Just phone in your order.
The government gives out money for the social organizations to buy food for anyone that wants it.
Plus there is unlimited groceries in the bush for those who are out there every day that want to harvest it.

There may be such a thing here, but if there is I don’t know about it. I don’t want or need free food, my family eats good without it. Not saying that there aren’t people out there who really are in need of it, but we aren’t.

exactly !!!trouble is they have

Lol