Posted on 08/25/2011 4:48:09 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Not in Bangor ME there aren't.
Yeah, you are cruel ~ and ignorant of the situation. Here’s the trick though ~ it’s NOT a scam with bottled water ~ it’s a deal to get back the deposit. MOST STATES do not require a bottle deposit. Only some do ~ see the list here: http://www.bottlebill.org/legislation/usa.htm Get them in line with the rest of the nation and only people who need bottled water will buy it with food stamps.
If the objective is to give food to the poor, and you have people take it and then sell it to others, the question is did the poor get the food?
Or, were those wealthy matrons from the Condos who were down there buying donated food?
It's entirely possible the "resellers" actually improved the performance of the free food market.
Do we have any "resellers" on Free Republic? They can tell you how this works.
Quite frankly capitalism is a good way to distribute goods and services in the most efficient manner.
Do you believe that those who are using a handpump on a well are getting foodstamps/EBT and using them to buy bottled water? Really?
Maine doesn’t really need a bottle deposit system either.
Maine doesn’t really need a bottle deposit system either.
Ask anyone that donates food to food banks -
those “picking up” invariably drive nicer/newer cars than those “dropping off”.
Bottled water certainly makes good sense.
Do all of you people live in cities or something? I thought we had some rural folks around ~
There was a woman selling food at her sister’s flea market stand. People marveled at the low prices of the stuff. Turned out it was bought with free government money.
In the old days, private group homes for the retarded would ask for donations of things like Christmas decorations and return them to Walmart for cash.
That's a pretty nasty area ~ worse in years gone by ~ but whatever you want to say about the poor actually being rich people in drag, that's not the case there.
Ah, I see what you mean. :)
How did people ever survive before bottled water?
No doubt there were some folks who observed this imagined that he was taking the donations somewhere to sell them ~ perhaps at a farmer's market the next day or something.
He had a pretty good SUV.
There are a whole host of people who work part time voluntarily to get surplus food into the hands of the poor who either can't afford it or can't get to it. One of the reasons you end up poor is a real disability.
But, I will also say the idea of someone dumping water makes me shudder, since I live in a desert.
That still didn’t answer my question/point.
If a person’s situation is such that the only source of water is a handpump well,
are you seriously positing that they’ll use foodstamps to buy bottled water to drink?
If you have a disease hit your community with a 30% death rate, and it comes back every year, pretty soon you won't have a community.
Two things wiped out typhoid ~ clean water supplies and vaccines.
BTW: Typhoid is not wiped out of course.
Do you propose that for the sake of somebody's idea of ideological purity that people on food stamps drink from contaminated wells?
Wow... I don’t even know how to address the strawman you set up.
OK, sure. People on foodstamps should drink from contaminated wells.
I’m giving up on getting you to see the point.
This reminds me of the leftists’ attitude towards welfare fraud - it doesn’t matter how much fraud is involved, as long as everyone that needs help gets it from the government. When I presented this view of welfare to my favorite libinlaw, she vehemently denied that that was her or other liberals’ viewpoint, but then in the next breath said “but it’s more important that everyone get covered”.
It's not so much a question of purity of ideology. This is sort of the heart of Conservative ideology.
It is right that the government put a gun to my head and forcibly confiscate my money so that the do-gooders in Washington (after skimming off quite a bit) can distribute my money to people with contaminated wells.
The fact that contaminated wells are a tragedy is actually a side issue. We can all agree that such things are a shame.
The question is: Can I decide how to behave, or should my government force me to "do the right thing" (as they see it)?
I'm a Conservative and whether the issue is contaminated wells or incandescent light bulbs, I say: They don't have the right to make my choices for me.
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