How much can they get?
Golly, that’s right about how much they lost when the freezer lost power...
This is somewhat off topic, but in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, St. Louis County (Missouri, right next to St. Louis City) expected tens of thousands of flooded-out New Orleans residents to show up in the region en masse - destitute and starving. When no refugees actually materialized, we were stuck with a whole bunch of boxed up, non-perishable food that a charity had assembled. Each box allegedly contained a month’s worth of food for a family of four.
County government (for whom I work) decided to just give the boxes away to “needy” area families. You should have seen the vehicles that queued up for the free stuff - Cadillacs, SUVs, Jags, you name it. But the joke would eventually be on them. I inventoried the contents of one of the food boxes: it held enough food to feed one person for three or four days, tops. A bag of spaghetti, some crackers, canned vegetables, a couple of cans of soup and a jar of peanut butter. That was literally it. I can only imagine how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in skimmed profit the charity organizers pocketed from this fraud: receive $10 from government or whomever to buy a box worth of food, and actually only spend $2.
Does ANYone have a month's worth of food in their freezer? (Besides hunters, of course.)
This is a new giveaway -- It started with the free debit cards after Katrina, and now it a free month's worth of food if the power goes out for 48 hours. Insane.