People Are Outraged About the Emergency Food Packages Being Sent to Puerto Ricans

No comment. I will leave it at that, or I will be banned.

 

In Utah, most people don't need FEMA.

 

Yep ...those into that are only out for a buck and the limelite and the press eats it up like the ###### they are .
Non issue to me and party on tramps .

 

I examined the "Meals"

Those are not humanitarian rations that support life. Those are snacks. Therefore those are not "Meals" with sufficient value to support life.

I would imagine the United States must have MRE style Rations to a certain degree warehoused all over the USA for war purposes and also under a certain amount of budgetary spending. You would think that 3 millions of those should go out each day to provide one meal to a person.

What I don't know or have access to is information on what is here in the United States tonight as far as rations of that kind. Or what is stored in the Plains elevators in terms of grains, corn etc. We fill trains with that in about a day. And there is usually enough in sileage ready to go at a time when prices rise to sell. Ships are eventually filled and sent overseas.

I don't know how many ships we can call up to assemble enough real food to ship to the PR's.

I don't think there is enough political will, and therefore enough money to do it.

Private money will do this on the cheap. Enter the snacks.

We have churches here including my former one in Arkansas that I know of specifically as one of the founding members long ago. We BUILT a food pantry program that served 54 people on our very first day. Then grew to serve approximately an average of about 180 once a month including meat, milk products and so on.

Most of the food products are donated by large stores because they are past sell by dates. Generally understood by the recipient of the donated food that there is no liability should someone or a family get sick trying to eat food that has spoiled. A percentage of it is a loss. Written off and donated.

Our first budget was 800 dollars from Church membership tithes for the food pantry. Now the budget is running about 3500 a month including electrical costs imposed by cooling vaults and other devices to protect the perishables. There is about 200 members in that church, most of them relatively prosperous and able to tithe a good amount each sunday.

Essentially a business decision by the donating food store. The milk might be two weeks older than currently sold today on the shelf. I bought a half gallon yesterday that expires on 30 nov. Last month's milk expired at the day it was in the bag. As a former milk hauler, I smelled the classic odor of spoilage so down the drain it went.

PR is poor. Over and over and over again something happens and they come begging.

Unfortunately under our Political system of Government, PR is our problem. Not necessarily a 51st state but more of a colony that is unwanted, nor do the people there want to be considered Americans. We are not liked that much.

They need everything. Well, they are not going to get it because it's too #### expensive.

Which is why they need to live on a bag of MM candy. Which is not a life at all.

 

MREs have M&Ms in them. Just be careful opening them. The glue that holds the two halves of paper comes undone and you lose half your M&Ms. The ones with the Skittles will do the same thing but they aren't as bad.

 

I don't even know who they are actually. Im behind times by choice.

Entertainment has condensed into what I think is less than 10 large companies across the USA. They determine what content is pushed onto the media. And frankly some of it is not acceptable.

I cannot wait for the fixed satellite channel bundles to be broken up and allow the buyer, that's me to pick specific channels to put on that account.