Whoever programmed you, e, must have put in all of 60 seconds to get it done. You come to this website with a head full of childish mush, and you expect us to take you seriously. Today, you dare to claim that Bloomboob is a ‘Republican.’
‘E,’ you did it again. Maybe it’s because you have to be re-programmed often (that flotsam just won’t stay between your ears). Let me be the first to inform you and your ilk that Bloomboob is NOT a ‘Republican.’ You could call him a Rino, a neocon, a fence-sitter or a progressive in an Armani suit, but when you try to imply that he’s a conservative, what you’re doing is dropping your pants in public. It may be a “utopian thing,” but at some point even your ‘friends’ will tell you to stop it.
If you want a real challenge on your hands, try to tell us that your W H ‘God’ is a world-class “leader.”
Are you ready for gas that costs 5 to 10 dollars a gallon, bunky? Are you driving a Volt yet? Have you volunteered to clean up the tons of trash that your ‘new friends’ bring into America through Arizona? Have you fondled a tree and whispered ‘Al Gore’ yet? You’re a real piece of work, comrade.

The omitted part that you so craftily left out eedie47d,is that Obamacare built a safety net for just such an occaison.
It’s called a”fine”,although I fail to see what is fine about it.
More appropriately,it might be called an excise fee.
But then again I am no silver dollar forger.
Sad that our reserve system cannot make that claim isnt it?
Lets see…..what kind of ponzi scam can I come up with?
I know!
I will print money with no value,and tell other folks that they are endentured slaves to me for doing it for them.
Wow…..what a concept!
And yet no political leader steps forth from the crowd to say lets stop this madness.
Wait…..well,none other than the for some reason I cant tell,unelectable Dr.Ron Paul.
But his foreign policy is disasterous,some assert.
But he may legalize drugs and prostitution,some elaborate.
But he is anit-semitic,others grumble.
Hmmm.
A person who has seen hundreds of lives begin in the world has no unique capability of understanding the precious nature of beginning anew.
That is what you’d politically call a conundrum folks.
Good luck with the election.
I hope your purchase is a wise one.
-CC.

We are talking about California here 45! The land of fruits nuts, illeral immigrants, junkies, pushers, pimps, ladies of the night, Hollywood types and a never ending supply of other ne’re do wells! Most Americans who could, have allready left!

Well, NY city is close to being Hollywood and CA, I assume. And many of their beliefs are the same.

They will hold on to them untill after the Election 45! They will offer them a sandwich, a cup of coffee and a free ride to the polls! That and some advice on just how they should vote!

But they can vote. Wouldn’t you vote for someone that gives you food?

I have never seen a homeless person picked up and taken to a polling place to vote. Apparently I don’t get out much to see such wonders.

I have never seen an atom.
Are they real?
To assume that because you havent witnessed something,it isnt real or actually occuring is well….hilarious.
I have never witnessed a nuclear blast.
Does that mean I doubt the destructive power of a nuclear blast?
Hmmmm.
I have never witnessed an arsonist igniting a fire.
It must then be true that no arsonist ever set fire to a structure or property,right?
Notice the theme here is fire?
Thats because it burns my rear to think that lack of actual sighting,makes the practical employment of a technique unsubstantiated.
It’s not bigfoot or little green men we are talking about here.
It is the possibility of idealism gone awry.
Does that seem as if it is a stretch?
Not from my unique perspective.
We must protect the innocents,right?
Yes….so now that there are these evil folks wanting to donate food that is tainted by their evil intent,we must protect the lawyers by making sure that they get huge sums of money for representing the innocents.
And bureaucracy was born,to the dismay of the common folk.
The architects of the Constitution,were of a mind to prevent the powers which now roam the hallowed halls of social justice from killing us with their costitution prostitution.
But then revisionists came along and told us that it was all for the collective good that we changed the meanings of their words and intent.
And some sit and yet defend that position as if it was in an effort to save their lives.
If that isnt funny I dont know what is.
-CC.

Funny my thinking has reversed from yours. I’d rather and am eating something of quality and eat less than fatten my already wide rear on pasta.

But Liberty:

You have a wide rear … at least you said it. Those who are starving don’t usually have a wide anything. So they do eat something that has a little too much sugar or starch. It would actually be good for them even though it isn’t good for you. After all, one size doesn’t fit all…

Unfortunately, the poor (and many others) among us do not pay attention to nutrition and just buy what’s cheapest. I I often stand behind people in the grocery line, very often paying wit Food Stamps, and what I see in their carts is appalling. I don’t knock Food Stamps because they kept food in my belly when I had no income; but I tried to use them wisely.

45 my comment was written to her BECAUSE she said she could afford to buy the nutritious foods…. no other reason.

Karolyn, and I agree and I rarely see skinny people using food stamps. Sometimes, yes, but more often than not, these folks are finding food, albeit perhaps the wrong foods and appear to be eating plenty of them. I’m not condemning, I couldn’t – just an observation. It’s probably all that high fructose corn syrup and additives.

I am seeing the fast food drive throughs(my occasional Jack’s 2-99cent tacos) are accepting EBT(Electronic Benefits Transfer)food stamp debit cards for food here in California.

Karolyn, I also agree. I went through a rough time of unemployment a few years back(2007)myself. Although I didn’t apply for food stamps, I did go to a charitable food bank and after an extensive interview with their chef/nutritionist was able to get a couple boxes of food goods, including some meat and was invited to join them for their weekly Wednesday dinner. Carried me through a couple of weeks before I went back to work. Very thankfull.

Bloomberg may be creating his perfect city with perfect people. The homeless and the derelict will have to move to survive, these then will become problems for some other towns.

Nad:

You may have arrived at the real truth there.

Many cities try and drive out the homeless with night time camping laws,panhandling and being kept off of certain streets or areas. They usually don’t work very well and the problem only moves over a few blocks. We have the Denver Rescue Mission and it does a great job of offering nighttime shelter and shower and strict rules when they have to be out of the building in the morning. We do have some great food banks but the stocks are dwindling so we know people aren’t getting enough. Some panhandlers are in-transients who are passing through but some are permanent fixtures who have their favorite bridge to live under. Most big cities have the same problems and you can only pray for them or donate cash to the missions. My grandson no longer needs diapers and we still had two boxes. This lady had a sign wanting money and diapers so I drove back home and took them to her. We can all help where we can and that should include food.

They should all be dumpster diving. let the police spend their time writing tickets that won’t get paid, then the city will have to spend resources to file “arrest warrants” for unpaid tickets. Then spend resources picking the homeless up and processing them and incarcerating them, then they can get 3 hots and a cot. All at the expense of New York tax payers, courtesy of Bloomberg due to his idiotic ideas.

That happened in Denver and the owner of the dumpster was furious because he always dumped personal items in the dumpster he didn’t want. Old checks and business logs where “stolen” by dumpster divers and created a problem for him so now he locks it up. In another case old food was placed in a dumpster and the people ate it anyway and got sick. Caution should be used by both the owner and the divers.

I heard that the teachers in Russia did the same for Papa Stalin. Papa Stalin would take care of the Russian children while God and their parents would not and could not.

I’ll consider that an opinion Ted since I couldn’t find anything on the Net about those school kids being bribed with oranges. Yes I quite often look things up to see if they are factual and your story may be.

eddie, the story might be apocryphal, the principle is not.

PLEASE Mac, enlighten, we the ignorant masses, just what part of civics justifies this egregiously idiotic regulation?

Let me explain it to you dumbass. The worse unhealthy food on the planet is better than no food especially when you are hungry. Ask the homeless and hungry what they want and stop trying to be everybodies nanny.Blumberg needs to let people take care of them selves and go stick his head in a wood chipper and help the whole dame state of New York.

Rick:

To the starving all food is nutricious.

mac, are you insulting me for a particular reason? I caught my error and corrected myself, and did so within twenty seconds of the previous post. Are you insulting me because you actually agree with this nonsense of government regulated charity? If so, then let me say that you are a serious a$$wipe. I will give what I choose, when I choose, and to whom I choose. The government can lick the scum between my toes if they don’t like it. And so can you.

Would you care to elaborate on my grammar and syntax? In what way did I err in that department? And in what way do you suppose I “wouldn’t have a leg up against anyone who has/had an education”? There was nothing wrong with my grammar or syntax in either post. I don’t even think there were any typos.

Don’t insult things that aren’t in error. If you have a legitimate insult you’d like to lay at my feet over some point of politics, then please do so. If not, keep it to yourself. We can all get testy from time to time when someone holds to a position we disagree with, but I don’t waste my time insulting people’s misspellings, lack of capitalization or punctuation, etc. If I have something to say, I say it.

So unless I’m entirely misunderstanding you, it is my opinion that you should jump off a bridge, because people like you are the main contributing factor behind the decline of our social well being.

Expect the good mayor to be trolling grocery stores to make sure the products purchased with those food stamps meet with his standards.

Not too sure about that! If I’m not mistaken they have to have a permanent address to
receive benefits.

Do people have enough food to eat on food stamps? In Ontario, Canada; if you are on Welfare and run out of money for food, you can only go to the food bank once a month for a box of food. If you need more later, you’re out of luck.

I read that because of lack of food the poor get sick and most likely die from ill health. The government could have gardens in every town and people could help themselves when needed.

Have you stopped beating your wife?
Is that the dumbest reasoning you can come up with today to start the sentence with “so you agree”? No, I am wrong, all we have to do is wait.

DavidL, how stupid can you be? The government(nanny state) wants to become the sole provider of “charity” for the poor and homeless in this country? Let me remind you that charity at the point of a gun is not charity at all but tyranny.

Government creates no wealth of its own and can only be charitable with that which it confiscates from producers. Since the inception of the Great Society and every subsequent battle in America’s war on poverty, untold trillions have been spent.
How’s that working?

Sure any restaurant or individual should be able to donate food to a homeless shelter.Here’s the catch though. If the food they give to the shelter is tainted (salmonella,ETC) the city would be responsible for any contaminated food or even deaths from those products given by anonymous donors. Who gets sued the city or the anonymous donor. Good Luck with that! Would they even be able to trace that food back to an individual donor. Considering there are attacks against homeless people living on the streets who is to say what that individuals intentions will be. The best bet is too have the donor leave their name and address but how many would be willing to do that unless it would be under the Good Samaritan Law. Did any of you dig into the reason Bloomberg did this and come up with a viable solution?

So….in his usual form,eddie47d proposes that we open up indiviuals and businesses for class action suits by the Harvard elite.
I have one question eddie47d.
What makes you think the food couldnt be tainted after presentation to the shelter?
Just how thorough does the witch hunt have to be?
But a homeless shelter could never be seen as guilty of poor practices in regards to their handling of charitable donations,right?
And so the ever growing monster of bureaucracy feeds on its hapless victims.
Mainly the law abiding charitable donors to the poor.
Yes that’s the ticket.
Cheers!
-CC.