I have previously mentioned the huge multi-block long lines which I have seen of people standing in line on Saturday and Sunday mornings at the Commonwealth Church and the mixed denominational church next to Von's supermarket to receive food pantry items here in the City of Angels. What I noticed on my past trip to the Kroger Food 4 Less a few weeks ago on a Saturday is that on the street sidewalk which runs the length for the massive parking lot for the Food 4 Less store, the Rite Aid store and Home Depot (that sidewalk is about 2 large city blocks in length) it was populated with very poor people spread out all along it with grocery items on blankets [which had been obtained from food pantry give-aways] which these people were trying to sell to passer-bys on the sidewalk. In past times that sidewalk had people on it selling all sorts of sundry items like "T" shirts; tools; cosmetics and everything imaginable except food items. My surmise is that times are getting real damn difficult for the poor and the unemployed and that these people are selling these food pantry items because they need the extra money to pay the landlords the monthly rent so as not to become homeless. Just imagine how economically 'desperate' you are to have sit all day on a concrete sidewalk trying to sell some canned goods you got at a Food Pantry give-away. It was a real eye-opener to me to witness this because even in past economic hard-times such as the Raygun and Bu$h economic recessions -- I've never seen this before here in L.A.
It is going to get real ugly for poor people in the Turd's Fascist Amerika. There is going to be a lot of starvation and malnutrition -- a lot of it. You don't 'slash' "6 billion to 9 billion meals annually" from SNAP and not have hungry, starving and malnourished children and senior citizens.
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