Posted on 08/22/2014 12:54:49 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
More than a thousand locals lined up Friday morning for several hours under the scorching sun and heat in Miami for a box full of food.
The event located at the Central Shopping Plaza at 3825 NW 7th Street started at 9:00 a.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.cbslocal.com ...
From the ARTICLE....
Participants got a box of free vegetables, meats and bread worth $100 until 12:00 p.m. or until supplies lasted.
Those who didn’t want to stand in line could wait in their car for the drive-thru portion of the event.
Brittany Payne, a mother of three, stood in line for hours with her baby boy.
“It’s something I have to do to feed my kids,” said Payne.
Payne joined Miami residents lined up under the scorching sun and heat.
“It’s a blessing because if it wasn’t for them I couldn’t eat today,” said Payne.
MY COMMENT? NO COMMENT.
Really sad. Decades ago, when my kids were (briefly) in the SF public school system, I worked one summer as a cafeteria aide so I could take them to the summer program and then take them home afterwards.
The school offered a free breakfast, theoretically for the children, but then somebody in SF said that adults should be able to go too. So they opened it to adults. We had a huge line out front every morning, The neighborhood was mostly Hispanic, but virtually all the people in line were black. And they’d get very nasty if you’d run out of their favorite breakfast treat by the time they got there. And they showed up in their nightgowns or jammies and slippers.
It was very sad because many of these people were the children of people who had come to SF from the South during WWII to work in the shipyards. But after the war, many of the jobs disappeared. SF was very segregated, even legally, and I worked with a black teacher who had was a brilliant woman and had wanted to teach high school - but until Brown vs Bd of Ed, blacks had only been allowed to teach the primary grades in SF. Tell that to the liberals out there!
Still, they were moving along, and then the Great Society came along and totally disempowered blacks and reduced them to arguing about their favorite miserable breakfast in what was essentially a line of beggars (btw, they all got food stamps and special meal assistance, but they didn’t know how to cook and sold the food stamps for other things). Probably even LBJ didn’t mean it to end up that badly.
It’s amazing the lack of skinny people in line for free chow. Most of those people are overweight. They should be giving food back.
I think LBJ knew exactly what he was doing. He hated blacks.
Exactly what I was thinking - if you can stand up for hours at a time in the heat, why not just get a job and pay for things yourself?
Times are tough.
He obviously hated America, too.
In all the Ferguson looting, how many pairs of work boots do you think were taken? I’m guessing zero.
Yeah, but no one would trust them with their ‘sclades & mercedes...
All hail the glorious supreme leader, for he loves us so that he might spread the bounty to all the masses!
What’s the betting Payne like so many others there and on welfare was over 200 pound too.
Hardly the welfare food stamps lot are finding it hard to come by food as they are always obese
I’m not sure if you meant that seriously or sarcastically.
Personally, I would say that yes, they are tough. Especially for people at the bottom of the ladder, whether they never got to climb it, or have been kicked off their perches higher up by outsourcing, etc.
It is amazing the amount of effort some people will put into getting hand-outs and avoiding work. In some cases more effort than just working would. Anyway, I’m willing to give these people the benefit of a doubt. I sure hope not, but some day I may be the one that needs a hand-out from a food bank or something like this, and I hope I won’t be judged too harshly if so.
I’m sure nobody thought of looting the Barnes and Noble.
Just said the same and then saw your post.
Welfare, and food stamp people are nearly always obese, so there is hardly those lot starving.
The article says Farm Share partnered with the Commishoner to make it happen, but no info on who ultimately wrote the checks for the food.
Nothing is for free, even when they say it is.
I’m sure there are some people in that line that could probably use the free food. About 25% would be my guess.
LOL! Great observation.
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