Food Shortage?????

[Dean Hoffman]

I caught a part of an NBC news type show.
I think they call it Early Today. A segment of the
show talked of people in food lines in unprecedented
numbers. Maybe it's true on pure numbers. The
Great Depression must've escaped the producer's
attention. Unemployment was above 15% from
about 1932 to about 1942. There was a short period
when it did drop below 15%.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression>
The show had a line of people in their vehicles
waiting to get the free stuff. I didn't notice any
1980s Chevys held together with duct tape in line.
Most vehicles looked like up to date SUVs.
The 2020 unemployment rate did hit almost
15% in April but started to drop after that. It was under
5% before April.
<http://preview.alturl.com/bgrq5>

[angelica...@yahoo.com]

The unemployment rate appears to be about 7% right now:
<https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf>

The labor force participation rate is 61.7%, which is not
stellar.

Unemployment is not spread evenly throughout the country. A quick
google suggests that Texas is particularly hard-hit right now. Perhaps
that is where Early Today was shooting its footage of cars.

After months of unemployment, people have nearly exhausted their
reserves and are no doubt worse off than at the beginning of the
economic contraction.

And they don't have any buyers for their up-to-date SUVs, so they
can't trade down to a 1980s Chevy held together with duct tabpe.

Cindy Hamilton

[Snag]

I find MIG welds work much better than duct tape for holding old
Chevys together . WD40 is still a viable option for squeaks though .
--
Snag

[Oprah Windee]

Most people in the food lines have more chins than a Chinese phone book.

[Ed Pawlowski]

> can't trade down to a 1980s Chevy held together with duct tape.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
Careful, if everyone did that there will be a duct tape shortage too.

I've noticed many nice cars too, but, you have to really look at the big
picture. Many people have exhausted normal unemployment benefits, used
what little savings they had and Congress is pretty much ignoring any
kind of stimulus help.

I though back to a few times in my life and wonder how I'd fare under
the same circumstances. There were times that would have been tough to
have no income.

[angelica...@yahoo.com]

Burning stored fat provides energy but not protein or other nutrients.

Cindy Hamilton

[Arlen Holder]

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[rbowman]

On 11/26/2020 05:16 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
> The show had a line of people in their vehicles
> waiting to get the free stuff. I didn't notice any
> 1980s Chevys held together with duct tape in line.
> Most vehicles looked like up to date SUVs.

Welfare queens in their Cadillacs? Wasn't that Reagan. I have observed
you don't see many junkers anymore. This isn't an area that pours salt
on the roads so that helps but there are a lot of 20 year old rides that
still look presentable and don't leave vapor trails.

[Peeler]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:21:30 -0700, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> Welfare queens in their Cadillacs? Wasn't that Reagan. I have observed
> you don't see many junkers anymore. This isn't an area that pours salt
> on the roads so that helps but there are a lot of 20 year old rides that
> still look presentable and don't leave vapor trails.

I have observed that you can babble just about ANYTHING, lowbrowwoman!
Really ANYTHING! <G>

[Arlen Holder]

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> Chevy held together with duct tabpe.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

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[Frank]

I'm sure most of these people are thinking, "Hey, free turkeys. I'm
gonna get me one." No need to prove need.

[Bob F]

Yeah! All those now unemployed victims of the trump flu and collapse
should sell their newer cars and buy an old beater before they get any
food. That's the Republican way!

[marika]

covid carriers, the Trump family, and all his oligarchical cronies will drive the unemployment rate up in January

food should not be a problem for Trump, given how much he loves McDonald's "hamberders" as he refers to them in his tweets. McDonald's is inexpensive, provides plenty of coupons, and must not be unhealthy because Trump eats them daily, his doctor reports he is in flawless health in spite of having suffered covid. He eats McDonalds as he alleges that it is harder to put poison in fast food, because you do not know which hamberder will be handed to the victim.

mk5000

If you keep eating McDonald's, you gonna get sick. You need a real home-cooked meal. And I knew that that would be healthier. And that's what Wu-Tang was: It was a home-cooked meal of hip-hop. Of the real people.

Rza

[rbowman]

Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' get your turkeys for free
Money for nothin' get turkeys for free.

[Peeler]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:27:41 -0700, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,

troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
> You play the guitar on the MTV
> That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
> Money for nothin' get your turkeys for free
> Money for nothin' get turkeys for free.

Oh, my! Senile twit! <tsk>

[Wade Garrett]

Many years ago, I worked downtown and drove a dented nine year old VW
Rabbit to work each day. The cheapest parking lot was several blocks
from my office and I had to walk past an out-of-business car dealership.

Come Christmas time, one of the big-name charities set up there for a
few weeks to donate toys to needy kids.

Yup, the "needies" lined up along the curb in their late model
boat-sized Cadillacs, over-chromed Olds 98 pimp-mobiles and similar
hoopties. Truly disgusting...

--
Why is it that the people who want more government control over your
life are the same ones who want you to be disarmed?

[gfre...@aol.com]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:09:26 -0500, Wade Garrett <wa...@cooler.net>
wrote:

I doubt any of those "boats" were paid for and explain why these
people might be broke.
If you make money and spend it, you have assets.
If you borrow money and spend it, you only have liabilities.
Maybe our government should learn that, along with the people who
think a government "trust fund" can be trusted.

[micky]

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:09:26 -0500, Wade Garrett

I don't know how much money they had, but the practice for Black people
of buying expensive cars arose when no one would rent or sell a nice
house to them, so they got the nicest car they could, because car
dealers would sell to anyone, as long as you left afterwards.

>over-chromed Olds 98 pimp-mobiles and similar

And how many of them were pimps? Plenty of non-poor people bought 98's
and Pontiac Bonnevilles, with all their chrome. Those were the more
expensive models, so the automakers must have thought people would want
them. Would you call them pimps or is it reserved for the people you
saw there?

>hoopties.

So the cars were run-down. So why shouldn't they accept the free toys,
and how do you know some of them weren't donating toys themselves?


> Truly disgusting...