they will never go back to work.

...working people and college students like me was available to get it too. I Stood in line every Wednesday and got two large bars for me and my roommates. I haven’t been out of work a day in my life since I was 18.

The dignity of work is more important and minimum wage is so generous.

Free rides are for those entitled to them. I think it's in the Constitution

...doesn’t take an engineer to find the mathematical equation to calculate how far below minimum wage is to poverty.
Hell just do the math on $15 an hour and see how well your family could eat.

I guess that one needed:

I am mostly sarcastic these days, it seems. Homeless life and semi-starvation can do that at my age

And from what I have seen, a minimum wage of $20-per-hour would just get close to some financial security. I've seen the comparisons and adjusted versions.


Thanks.

There’s nobody to receive and process the milk. The food processing industry has been hit hard by COVID-19. The government would probably love to give this stuff away, but there aren’t enough people to make that happen because of how many of them are sick already.



-Laelth

I was in the meat industry then. There was over production of milk so a lot of farmers sold their milk cattle to the slaughterhouse, reducing their herds. I think the government encouraged that though I don’t remember the details. Most of the hamburger you eat comes from old dairy cows and even bulls.

Here's an interesting article about gubmint cheese and powdered milk:

https://www.history.com/news/government-cheese-dairy-farmers-reagan

"Grilled Cheese,WTF Its Only A Buck"
Us Deadheads Remember "Reagan Wax" lol

and giving it to food pantries.

I would be a lifetime customer. I would tell all my friends, too.

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I think it was '84 or '85. Some of the butter was "old" but no one ever gave any of it back. Every Saturday we would hand it out.

Welcome to reality.

Reagan Cheese.

I got a brick every week.

The best thing was my grandmother knew I loved "fresh" milk, and bought a gallon every week of straight milk with cream on the top from her farmer friend, and put it in the fridge. We would make butter, real butter, and drink real milk. I know most have never tasted the (it can kill you because it isn't pasteurized) real milk. It's soooooo good.

Stay safe.

Reagan Cheese, probably the only good thing he did.

goes back far before R. Ray Gun. It began in the 1930s and continued under one form or another until 2014.

In the mid 1960s, I had an uncle who had ten children, he got enough of the free food to share with our family. Our family may have been eligible, but my father would not have been seen taking free food. The only food I remember was the cheese; it was really good!

The Republicans of today would rather see the food plowed under than to give it to the needy. Plowing it under still supports the prices of the commodities without having to give it away to people who can't or don't want to work.

Reagan lowered the price of milk and raised the price of grain.
It was crushing to the family farms.
Reagan ratfucked the traditional family farms.