[Diana in Wisconsin]

Boy, this is getting old. Every November, like clockwork.

[bmwcyle]

Teach them to fish.

[dalereed]

Close them down and put a sign on the door “go get a job and earn your keep”,

[ichabod1]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual hunger survey released Wednesday showed that more than 35.5 million people in the United States were hungry in 2006.

I'm hungry right now~!

[xtinct]

Family, friends and I did not donate anything to the pantries this year because 99.9% of the aid goes to illegal immigrants in our area.

We will not encourage these people to stay in the U.S.

Act like a sanctuary for criminals -- you get NO aid from us.

Donation lost: $1,000 plus 30 turkeys

[RichInOC]

I keep saying it and nobody listens to me:

Feed the obese to the starving.

[Wuli]

“Demand is being driven up by rising costs of food,.....”

One of the biggest factors in this past year’s food price increases is the taxpayer boondoggle to ethanol;

Increase factor (1) - moving land from corn-food-and-feed production to corn-ethanol production (a) reduces the # of acres under production for food; (b)increases demand for corn itself; (c)increases what food and feed producers must pay for corn; (d)decreases acreage in food commodities other than corn, raising prices on those commodities (soybeans).

Increase factor (2) - (1)(b)and (c) increase the cost of producing meet and dairy products.

Increase factor (3) - Increase factor 2 and (1)(d) adds to costs all across the grocery-food chain as the costs of corn, meat, dairy and other items pass into the grocery store items to which those commodities are the source material.

This will only get worse as mandates for ethanol use increase.

[airborne]

Here in central PA, the Boy Scouts have, as usual, worked hard to collect a massive amount of donated food for the local food banks.

Yes, the same Boy Scouts that the PC crowd have been driving away in Philadelphia.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

My wife and I volunteered at an organization in Oklahoma City when we lived there that gave “assistance” to those in poverty. We quit when we learned that the “clients” were taking whatever they could and selling it. The “charity” did no means testing and many of those in “poverty” saw the handouts as a second source of income.

[Nam Vet]

Yahoo News seems to be picking up the propaganda mantel that print journalism is losing. They (Yahoo) are so full of bad news type Barbra Streisand it's sickening.

Nam Vet

[BerryDingle]

You're enjoying your day Everything's going your way Then along comes Debbie Downer. Always there to tell you 'bout a new disease A car accident or killer bees You'll beg her to spare you, "Debbie, Please!" But you can't stop Debbie Downer!

[ken21]

wow!

if we only had a socialist prez like hillary,

dat would be fixed, huh?

/s