Build Back Better has now apparently reached the stage where we tailspin like Venezuela.
Wherever Bernie is today, I'm sure he's celebrating!
Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed by inflation turn to handouts to help feed their families.
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The food banks, which had started to see some relief as people returned to work after pandemic shutdowns, are struggling to meet the latest need even as federal programs provide less food to distribute, grocery store donations wane and cash gifts don't go nearly as far.
In Phoenix, demand is up 78% from a year ago. In Houston, an extra 100,000 pounds of food per DAY is needed to meet demand. Los Angeles is up to 30 million pounds of food distributed through March, up from 22 million last year during that time period (how much worse did it get April-June??).
Food bank executives said the sudden surge in demand caught them off guard.
"Last year, we had expected a decrease in demand for 2022 because the economy had been doing so well," said Michael Flood, CEO for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. "This issue with inflation came on pretty suddenly."
Funny how that happens.
If only rich tech and media platforms didn't spend a year telling you inflation wasn't going to happen when plenty of people were sounding the alarm back in 2020.
After all, they think this guy is smart:
Food bank leaders are calling on the U.S. government to spend a lot of money to fix the problem, not realizing that's how we got in this mess.
A USDA spokesperson noted the agency is using $400 million from the Build Back Better initiative to establish agreements with states, territories and tribal governments to buy food from local, regional and underserved producers that can be given to food banks, schools and other feeding programs.
Ah, government stimulus.
What's the definition of insanity?
For now, there's enough food, but there might not be in the future, said Michael G. Manning, president and CEO at Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank in Louisiana. He said high fuel costs also make it far more expensive to collect and distribute food.
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