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F.O.A.D.

On 9/23/13 11:41 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:15:23 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

I guess I really shouldn't be surprised anymore by the lack of
compassion on the right for those who are poor or the lack of
understanding of the challenges the poor face just to eke out an existence.

Around here, for fresh food items, Wal-Mart does not beat out the
national chain stores. It's not really the issue, anyway.

The fact that there isn't a McDonald's on every corner isn't any sort of
equivalence for the fact that both urban and rural poor do not have the
ability to make what dollars they have go farther in efforts to feed
healthy foods to their families because they don't have access to
supermarkets that sell healthy food at reasonable prices. If all you can
get to is a little corner bodega that sells mostly fatty, salty
"convenience" food and a little bit of fresh food, then you are going to
pay through the nose for it and it would not be healthy food for your
family.

And, of course, now that the Republican assholes in the U.S. House have
voted to cut $40 billion out of the food programs for the poor, the
choices the latter have will be limited further.

I still don't know where you are going with this.
I understand you want to slam anyone who is not "Harry" without really
having a clue what you are talking about but giving "country poor"
public assistance won't help much if they don't have a place to spend
it.,

A also wonder where you were in the Carolina woods that had a
"bodega".
I have seen little country stores but they are likely to have a guy
selling fresh fruits and vegetables out of a truck in the parking lot
if they don't have them inside.
Maybe you are really talking about some yuppie haven of million dollar
houses, not farm country. We spend a lot of time out in the boonies on
our vacations and fresh produce is not the problem in that area.
Buying packaged foods is the expensive thing.

Near the beginning of this thread, the usual right-wing assholes made
derogatory comments about the poor food choices being made by many of
the poor. One of the ranking assholes suggested they shop at Wal-Mart or
Target. That assumes, of course, that the poor have reasonable access to
large chain stores from which they can buy food. For many of the poor,
that is a fallacious assumption. Many of the poor without easy access to
transportation only have access to overpriced little neighborhood stores
that carry minimal amounts of fresh, healthy food and charge much more
for it than a big-time grocery store.

The point of all this is that there are many reasons why the poor may be
making poor nutritional choices. Access to decent food at a reasonable
price is one of them.

When *you* are out in the boonies on vacation, you don't have trouble
finding the food you want because *you* have the money with which to buy
it and the transportion with which to fetch it. A lot of the poor in
this country haven't the money or the transportation.

Oh. Bodega. It's just another name these days for a small corner/
neighborhood grocery/convenience store. We are nothing if not
multilinguistic down here in southern redneck maryland.