OMG, there is so much wrong with this.
“Most recently, the government raised the value-added tax three percentage points, to 21 percent, on most goods, and two percentage points on many food items”
People are going hungry so they raised the tax on food!!!!!!!!!
““It’s against the dignity of these people to have to look for food in this manner,” said Eduardo Berloso, an official in Girona, the city that padlocked its supermarket trash bins. “
I don’t know about you but I’d rather lose my dignity and have something to eat.
During the depression my mother and her family survived just that way. She always tried to feed us overripe fruit because that was how she liked it.
When I was younger I was working as a dishwasher at a restaurant because that was all I could find, and it wasn’t anything being thrown away that I didn’t check out first.
Another job had me walking home after 2 AM, and I would walk down the alley that went in the back of this pizza shop, and not only what I take home any pizzas that were thrown away, they would throw out the leftover pizza dough and I would take that home and bake bread loaves out of it.
My worst desperation story, is when I was sharing an apartment with a roommate in my twenties... He ripped me off not only taking anything I had of value, he also took my wallet while I was sleeping, and hit the road.
I awoke with nothing in the house to get me through the week except a sack of rice, and a country boys ingenuity.
I took a grocery bag to the park, look in the garbage cans until I found a bag of Fritos with a few Fritos left in it... sat on a park bench and begin feeding the pigeons... Except every once in awhile one of the pigeons would disappear into the grocery bag.
I ate pigeon breasts and rice for a few days, and it was delicious. Exactly like dark meat on a turkey. And then I went to another park that had a pond, and nabbed a couple Muscovy ducks. They weren’t bad, but those ducks are a tub of guts... not much meat on them.
I have no problem expediting, adapting, and overcoming when my stomach is concerned. And I’ve never been on any kind of public assistance.