food bank ponderings

FOOD BANK PONDERINGS

Okay, forget corn shortages or Chinese economic warfare. Let us assume that the entire worlds national economies are run by the same kind of idiots we have here in the US. I mean, it doesn't take a PhD in history to remember that less than a century ago the island that relied on imports almost starved and that oil was what allowed us to become a global empire. But we threw away those lessons for a short term profit for a very few people, putting the other 330 million at risk. Our leaders are as stupid as Bill Gates and Potty McPothead Musk.

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We severed all ties with almost anything that smacked on resiliency and instead made everything “efficient”. Now, granted, this was going to happen regardless of the intellectual capacity of our Dear Leaders, in a country unable to function in a growth economy when we had a shrinking energy supply. But we also COULD have chose to downsize many decades ago, and choose NOT to crash after a profit shakedown. Which is like asking a junkie to stop shooting up even as he hangs off deaths door, a male prostitute in a ghetto alley his only means of staying high as the hepatitis battles with HIV for the cause of death.

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Or, asking all the citizens to vote for Austerity Carter instead of Make America Deficit Spend Again Reagan ( I don't blame the man-he delivered what the voters wanted. Obammy and Trump never did that ). Some things are possible but very improbable. So, we have established that Corona Black Death was a cover for the global economic collapse caused by stupidity. Now we have to ask ourselves how we most likely move forward, as long as the lights stay on. Just look at the last few months. Everyone, and I mean EVVVERRRRY ONNNNNE ( picture the scene in The Professional with Gary Oldman screaming that line ) is being sacrificed to the wood chipper.

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Here is where I go into an even more fanciful future projection than is my usual. Our Food Bank was just offered a loan to stay in business. We know because NOL was told that for the place to qualify for the loan, she needed to start taking her vacation days ( built up to some insane level like sixty days ). If any employees are owed any money, the loan is held up. I'm sure they will cut her a large check. And we know they needed a loan because the thrift store has been closed the last two plus months. Some employees are paid by federal grant, but most are from the thrift store profits. They burned through all their savings and grants and donations, and no one wants to buy their assets.

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( They were trying to sell the houses the homeless stayed in, plus a mostly unused warehouse. If they did, they money is already gone. You don't pay these idiots $14 an hour and save much money. The moron that replaced me as food bank manger is costing the company four times what I was paid, and the idiots in charge of her think nothing of it. It wasn't just this food bank either-all I've heard about are bloated and inefficient. This factors in to what I'll be theorizing )

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The company cannot stop wasting money. The board of directors seem to mostly be someone else's drinking buddy and do NOT seem to be able to run a very tight ship. Any loan they get, they will probably not be able to repay without drastic changes. So, is that the plan? Is this how you nationalize food banks? By indebted them to insolvency? It is a LOAN, not a grant. Do you take over the food banks, kick out the expensive deadwood, and turn it over to a corporation who is then in charge of mass distribution of now government food?

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Again, I'm just Wild Ass Guessing here. But it would be just like the federal government to take over control, let a favored corporation administer it ( who will cut costs to the point then THEY endanger its performance-but that is okay when a favored, political contribution happy corporation does it. Remember, Food Stamps were gifted to a LOT more people when CitiBank got a percentage of purchases for its debit cards. Is this the future of food welfare? Let the meat shortages and meat exports piss off the public so they support federal intervention, then the distribution going to favored large grocery chains ( remember Wal-Mart favored ObamaCare ) and for those homeless, food bank distribution points.

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Why not just have them go to the grocery stores? Food banks are terrible with the distribution infrastructure they have. They were basically set up for the homeless and those without Food Stamps, with a bi-monthly Senior food distribution as an afterthought. In 2009, they had a lot more people want their services. The food banks smelled government money, far more even than before, and cashed in. But they can't feed everyone. Just look at those miles long food bank lines of cars backed up ( I still think that was some sort of publicity stunt, but freely admit that might be fanciful as I have nothing suggesting that other than my paranoia ).

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( But I am guessing that by requiring car pick-up rather than park and walk and line-up, the authorities created a perceived issue for their own ends, as cars lining up look much worse than a block long line of people ) The food banks were far too generous with who qualified. And it almost seems the government must meet that new expectation as unemployment skyrockets. They will subsidize the food banks, and let a corporate buddy run it so they can claim “saving tax dollars”, as they semi-nationalize food distribution ( at the very least, subsidize it ). And somehow, these idiots at the meat plants will profit off of this shortage stunt. “We cannot stay open at our old profit mark-ups, safety for the children!” Tax breaks, moving to a government building without rent, prisoner labor or similar, you get the idea.

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When it is all about profiting and covering your ass, these kind of dog and pony shows are guaranteed.

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note: a decent movie, even though it slows way down after the first half.  A humorous look at the collapse, "Diani & Devine Meet The Apocalypse" on Amazon Prime.
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