I asked a question last week that no Twin Cities “journalist” can seem to being themselves to ask: if food shelves are running short, what could the half billion dollars embezzled by DFL-affiliated non-profiteers have done to help things?
Now, I was in the middle of a brutal week of work last week, so I missed a few other questions that were, in hindsight, begging to be asked:
- The DFL tells us, relentlessly, that Minnesota’s economy is just humming along. So – why is demand for food shelves do high?
- The Biden Administration tells us “Bidenomics” has the nation’s economic blender set to “puree”. So all of us who are seeing evidence like this to the contrary – are we just believing our lying eyes?
- If we’re providing “free” breakfast and lunch to every PreK-12 student in the state, that should take an immense burden off the state’s food shelf system. But it seems it’s not.
- And the biggest, best question of all – In a state clogged with entitled, preening people with little tin “journalist” badges, why is a schnook blogger and talk show host from Saint Paul the only person asking these questions?
If the people of Minnesota were to start asking these questions for themselves, this would be a very different place.
I’ve been asking these questions as I watch Keystone Community Services purchase practically a whole block on University Avenue in Saint Paul in order to expand their food shelf services. Not sure how a non-profit has managed to purchase practically a whole block on University Avenue, a spot that we’re told is “in high demand” because of light rail proximity–actually it’s only touted as being “in high demand” when the Merriam Park neighbors are busy trying to block something useful from moving in, such as in “That area is in too high demand to allow a business with a parking lot to serve the residents.” Other times, such as when a food shelf decides it needs more space, the same Merriam Park neighbors cheer on for all the do gooding they see happening with that. (and secretly inside are happy that there are so many Ramsey County people relying on food shelves, keeping them down so they don’t revolt against everything Merriam Park neighbors stand for).
The GDP grew at a nearly 5% rate last quarter, but what does it say about the economy that so many people think we are in a recession? We were told a recession was coming. Now the economy is booming. Another broken Biden promise. /s
UAW did a really outstanding job representing the membership in this negotiation. Really a masterful piece of work. Happy for the workers. This sounds like a life changing agreement for many of the UAW members.
GM, UAW Reach Tentative Labor Deal to End Strike
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/gm-uaw-reach-new-tentative-labor-deal-to-end-strike-afe5e197
Mr. Berg: your approach tries fallaciously to appeal to the notion that this institution could be run more efficiently and effectively. It cannot. The journalism community has evolved their thought well beyond yours. They understand that the remedy for such social ills is always and only one: more public money.
My prediction is that with free breakfast and lunch at schools, the demand for food banks is going to become far worse because we are training parents not to provide these meals for their children, and we are training the children not to accept ordinary foods historically eaten by the poor. Hence the skills that one needs to make cornbread, beans & rice, and even a bowl of Cheerios are disappearing as children demand fast food and heavily sugared cereals as a condition of eating.
You can see this as people interviewed at food shelves comment “so glad that it’s not dry pinto beans again” and the like. The question now is not whether someone will have enough food to avoid malnutrition and starvation, but rather whether it will be to their tastes.
I can imagine people saying “but don’t the poor deserve to have this and that?”, and my response is that when I was young, I never got sugared cereals, rarely ate at restaurants, and in general ate as if I were actually somewhat poorer than the middle class/upper middle class family I came from. I’m very grateful for this, as the end result is that I can cook Julia Child like meals on a SNAP/food stamps budget.
This rock you’ve overturned, Mitch, looks to be hiding a lot of, well, shit. You must be doing something right. You got the Fluffy to make an appearance to try and make not just one but two threadjacks.
Whenever a drunken nitwit that is shacked up with his daughter in a crappy little dump on the shores of a muddy little pond cheers Pedo Joe, you know it’s bullshit.*
“GDP is teh nearly + 5%!! Teh economy is BOOMING!! *hick*”
Huh…if things are going so well, why is construction in the tank? Why isn’t everyone running out to fill their garages with Chinese stuff they don’t need? Why are eggs still $4 a dozen?
What’s going on? What’s the story?
Government spending increased last quarter faster than any time in the past 8 years (4.8%). Inflation driving costs upwards. No doubt after the Uniparty dumps another $100 Billion in federal fiat currency to keep Uke’s and Palestinians getting mowed down like wheat, drunken pond boy will be back with even higher GDP numbers. All the Fed needs to do is keep the printing presses rolling, and we’ll all be eating rainbow stew with a silver spoon.
*Only a world class moron repeats the utter bullshit he reads on the Washington Post without chuckling.
The journalist class and the activist class are almost interchangeable in terms of sex, race, education and income level. They can easily move between both worlds, they have their shibboleths that allow them to easily recognize one another.
One of the worst trends is having multiple authors for newspaper articles that could easily be written by a single person. This encourages group think, the article that gets written is the article that causes the greatest amount of congruency between the authors, so you get this bland, pro-establishment POV.
Remember how the Soviet Union proudly trumpeted record crop production from the front pages, while lambasting lazy farmers as treasonous in the editorials?
I’ve typed and deleted my comment half a dozen times, trying not to start a flame war, but this post really sets me off.
There is not one single, solitary child in America dying of starvation with distended belly as flies buzz around him, like the African kids we see on television. The biggest childhood disease in America is obesity.
Hunger is not defined as “nothing to eat” but is defined as “worried I may not get enough to eat.” Hell, I worry about that all the time, particularly when I go to the in-laws where everything is carb-to-the-max.
Years ago, I read that the government could eliminate hunger in America – real hunger – by giving away the free cheese, bulgar wheat, rice, corn, and other subsidized ag products it has piled up in warehouses. Wouldn’t need food banks at all. Last year, visiting friends in a Texas border town, we noticed Sams Club stocked pallets of 50# bags of beans and rice right by the exit – their fastest selling product – as poor families fed themselves on old-fashioned staples.
You notice what wasn’t on the free stuff list or the Sam’s Club list? Spices. Tea. Facial tissues. In other words, luxury items. Stuff that makes life not just possible, but pleasant. Am I saying poor people don’t deserve the finer things in life? Yes. Yes, I am. The finer things in life are for paying customers. If you want those things, earn them.
Sure, I’m a hard-hearted sonovabitch. My wife and I didn’t work two jobs each all those years to hear some slacker whine about the quality of donations at the food shelf. Mac and cheese was good enough for us (and not hoity-toity Kraft, Golden Harvest four-for-a-dollar) and it’s good enough for you. Makes a nice break from Raman noodles.
My wife and I are in the middle of a 3 year long re-invention of our lives.
As y’all know, we divested ourselves of all the shit we don’t need, can’t afford to lose or are not willing to leave behind if necessary. That includes our house in town, our earlier landstead, my hotrod cars, our art collections everything.
We’re building our shitty little 10ac. pig farm next to the lake mostly by ourselves. I’ve cleared 1ac. out of the woods so far, and grew about 1/3 ac worth of food this year. Couldn’t do more this year because I’m too damn busy building and earning federal fiat dollars to turn into hard currency.
We don’t buy shit unless it’s absolutely necessary (fuel, cigars, pale ale Mmmmm, coffee, sugar, salt, gun powder, projectiles, & such) and you’ll not find any food item produced in a factory (other than condiments) anywhere in the house. I haven’t eaten a scrap of the absolute shit called “fast food” for more than 20 years now, and I don’t even remember what a potato chip tastes like.
99% the people who are poor in the US are fat and unhealthy, because they’re stupid and fucking lazy. That’s the fact and I’m not afraid to say it.
^ you wrote nothing wrong, big guy. I’ll back you up should a flame war start.
Not because what I wrote in another thread was so unique and perceptive, but this issue too can be examined through the lense of an emerging low(er) trust society. In a high trust society we could assume that if someone, a poverty expert, say, claims that there’s a hunger problem in America, then by golly we better get cracking on solving it. That was before half a billion went flying off to east Africa, DFL reelection coffers, and probably a few Democommie goody bags. Or the billions that were scammed for economic assistance during the Kung flu. Or the fact that a growing number of people who realize that there is a huge industry that created around supposedly serving poor people, let’s call it Big Poverty. The War on Poverty (13 trillion?) been very, very good for lot of people.
Regarding “ending hunger” and government cheese, butter, and the like, you theoretically could end hunger with this, but the reality is that these commodities, like all foods purchased with SNAP cards or obtained through food shelves, have a tendency to go onto the black market to purchase the commodities the recipients actually want, some legal and some not, and some healthful and some not.
Reality here is that (my mom worked in school food service) each government food program–SNAP, WIC, school lunch and breakfast–is targeted to provide a certain percentage of daily calories–SNAP gets you to 100%, WIC another 50%, school lunch and breakfast about 65-70%–and then we wonder why poor people tend to be fat, why they sell their government cheese and butter on the black market, and why they have difficulty improving their condition.
The US economy never fails to impress.
Such a powerhouse!
each government food program–SNAP, WIC, school lunch and breakfast–is targeted to provide a certain percentage of daily calories–SNAP gets you to 100%, WIC another 50%, school lunch and breakfast about 65-70%
A KFC “Mighty Bucket For One” has 1155 calories, before you add any of the other chemical mess that comes with it.
Go to your local Walmart, look around the parking lot and report what you see; chicken boxes …(too fucking lazy to get out of the car and toss them in the trash).
Then, for added fun, go inside and watch the obese poor people ride mobility scooters up and down the isles stealing shit.
But I must restrain myself, lest Mr. Bubble call me bad names and hurt my feelz.
The US economy never fails to impress.
Such a powerhouse!
LMAO!
I swear, it’s true; I can see this drunken fool lifting his greasy head off his filthy couch, taking a swig of vodka, spouting that and passing back out.
If the US government were to take away all property from everyone, and replace it with a $50k stipend per year per person, withing a generation we would back to the same people controlling the same amount of money.
This is because it is a fundamental error to think that on the level of a society, poverty is a result of peopl
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You will always address me as “Master Tedward.”
e simply not having money. On an individual level, people are subject to misfortune that can take down the best of us. But on the level of millions of individuals? It is the inability to see how actions lead to consequences coupled to the human tendency to want to consume now and pay later.
Regarding money escaping the hands of the poor per MMP’s comment, I believe Malaysia tried that in the 1990s; a bit portion of wealth that had belonged to the Chinese and Indian minorities (among others) was given to the majority Malays, and in a few years, yes, the distribution of wealth by ethnic group was exactly the same as it had been. You can’t fix poverty without fixing morals, ethics, and culture. But that would be, sad to say, cultural imperialism and the like. We can’t have that, even if it means that we might help 10,000 people to see the next New Year’s Day that otherwise would not have.
Sorry about that last comment. An AI response gone wrong.
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Yea, Bot Boy! Your economic illiteracy continues to show you the fool.
That UAW contract will add another $900 to the cost of a vehicle assembled in the U.S.
In Oklahoma, 1,400 workers have been laid off from a Michelin tire plant. Add that total to the rest of the thousands of layoffs occurring in the country and you see that the DemoCommies are really looking out for their brain dead voters, like you!
The GDP grew at a nearly 5% rate last quarter
Now – what was the rate of inflation?
GDP these days measures gross spending – not necessarily all that meaningful.
And now, do capital spending.
It’s bad. Really bad.
Part of the equation for gdp is consumer spending as Mitch points out. Given the high prices (yes, inflation is moderating, but that does NOT mean prices have come down) consumer spending will be a large number even though it doesn’t mean we are getting more bang for the buck, in fact much less. Prices are sky high, you just don’t know that because you live in mama’s basement.
Meaning the troll lives in the basement, not you Mitch.
The Republican House Israel aid Bill is out. It offsets $14.3 billion in Israel aid with $14.3 billion in cuts to IRS from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Every $1 you cut IRS funding will lose about $2 of revenue. So that means this bill would add about $30 billion to the deficit.
IRS Rescission Would Worsen Deficits
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits
IRS Rescission Would Worsen Deficits
Curious….
Leftist degenerates tell us:
A. They are in the majority
B. MAGA’s are done; stick a fork in them
C. Leftists care about teh poor®
If all that’s true, we don’t need a militarized IRS to collect taxes, because the majority degenerates are Happy To Pay® and will just fork it all over. PLUS the degenerates tell us that the 25 million uneducated, unskilled, 75IQ mestizos that have invaded Weimerica are the solution to out sagging economy, and they pay taxes!
So, we can save that $85 million and Build Back Better(c)
Emery, if cutting $1 in IRS funding loses only $2 in revenue, then what we have is one of the most inefficient tax schemes ever devised by man–well, apart from “soaking the rich”, which often reduces tax revenues, of course.
Long and short of it is that you’ve proven the need to fundamentally reform our tax system, if improving compliance has such a low ROI. Also worth noting is (1) nobody’s proven out your estimates of increased revenue with increased compliance costs and (2) we’re talking about ten year estimates, not one year. In terms of our bloated government, it’s hardly worth noting.