Mitch’s Journalism School 101
By Mitch Berg
We’re told that Twin Cities food banks are having trouble keeping up wth demand:
Just curious if any Twin CIties “Jounalists” might have asked if perhaps the half billion dollars stolen from food aid programs by DFL/DSA-linked non-profits, and spent on cars, homes and other graft goodies, often in East Africa, might have helped with the situation.
October 27th, 2023 at 8:03 am
I would be interested to learn the customer base for the food shelf
Are we talking homeless people living under a tarp at the corner of Sixth and Wabasha? Are we talking about people staying in the Motel 6 in Roseville next to The Salvation Army headquarters? Are we talking about people who live in a rent subsidized apartment and blew all their EBT money on cigarettes? Are they working families holding down two jobs who cannot afford groceries in the booming Biden economy?
Not all poor are the same and not all poor are equally deserving of my time and money.
October 27th, 2023 at 8:26 am
Nicely put, Mitch. You too, big guy.
October 27th, 2023 at 9:49 am
Anybody ever go down for all that theft?
Ha ha, just kidding.
October 27th, 2023 at 10:16 am
Kinlaw, yeah one was just allowed to leave the and go home to Kenya to “sell property in order to pay restitution.”
I’m guessing we’ll never see him again.
October 27th, 2023 at 11:06 am
I’ll give personally 1 to 1 but never to orgs like this. Fok no.
October 27th, 2023 at 1:21 pm
lmao…just where in-thee-hail do you think you are, Merg?
“Judge allows Feeding Our Future fraudster to take 30-day trip to Kenya”
https://alphanews.org/judge-allows-feeding-our-future-fraudster-to-take-30-day-trip-to-kenya/
October 27th, 2023 at 2:14 pm
OK, did they end SNAP when I wasn’t looking? (the new “Food stamps”)
One thing that strikes me as significant here is the degree to which we’re feeding the poor with heavily salted packaged foods like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. So what we’re doing is pretty much to make the poor sick while depriving them of neat little skills like “making a cheese sauce.” I remember one time I helped a poorer friend move, and I was just STUNNED how many packaged foods we were moving.
(side note; my truck is now 26 years old, and it has never helped a family move that had less “stuff” than I have….and I have some stuff)
On my part, while drinking good coffee, a lot of produce, and decent wine, I’ve been feeding my family on a SNAP-like budget for years. I think we need to reconsider how we’re “helping” the poor here, because I think cooking lessons like “how to make a bechamel sauce in five minutes” or “how to soak and cook dry beans” might go a lot further than truckloads of canned and otherwise packaged foods.
October 27th, 2023 at 2:27 pm
bike;
Good points.
I make my own spaghetti and Alfredo sauces, as well as soups, baked beans and most salad dressings. It’s a little bit more work, but I control what goes in it.
October 27th, 2023 at 3:52 pm
^ Most poor people are poor because of their own decisions. They consistently make bad ones that keep them poor.