Dish out cookery books targeting cheap meals. Assuming that people have a stove and running water, you can eat healthily for very little - depending on what shops there are where you live.
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How should the UK hungry be helped?
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI think we should make it legal for poor people who are thin to steal food from people who are clinically obese.
It would solve 2 problems at once and the Bible kind of suggests it is allowed so morally it works for me."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostAlso don't have any kids if you can't reasonably expect to feed them.Comment
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foodbanks mainly support short term need. People going there get a limited amount of food say 3 daysand only a few incidents a year. Its not like popping down to Waitrose.
Try this stereotype You are doing OK on minimum wage and paying the bill, you get sick, laid off , sanctioned suddenly you have 7 days food and 28 days until benefits come in. What are you going to do?
You get referred to a foodbank and help to sort out your benefits.
Yes they should have 6 months warchest but try that with minimum wage.
To sort it you need near full employment and a well managed benefit system neither of which are going to happen.
Foodbanks really help.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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food banks do help
problem is as others have said if you cannot just ding it in a microwave for 5 minutes the chaverati will not be interested.
giving them some spuds, carrots and a bit of braising steak ain't gonna work.
I have no problems with foodbanks and think they should be there to help out the poor and needy
but the poor and needy are not the chavvy slapper with three kids, a fag in here mouth and an attitude problem.Comment
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Popping the house price / rent bubble would be the best way to tackle this.
Then people's money would go further.
Maybe even pay off some of the debt.
Or scale back on benefits.Comment
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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostAlso don't have any kids if you can't reasonably expect to feed them.In Scooter we trustComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostGet real.
1. Sky TV subscriptions are for a year - if they are to thick to understand how to budget then if they took the subscription out they are stuck with it.
2. Lots of people don't smoke and if they do get their cigarettes of the back of a lorry.
3. Lots of people only drink their friends' or parents alcohol so don't actually buy it. Some of the single mothers I use to know use to get alcohol given to them. The couple of single men I know who were alcoholics didn't really bother about eating so wouldn't be the type to go to a food bank.
4. If you are in the middle of no where how are you suppose to get to your job? In London and larger cities lots of people whether working or not don't have cars as they can get around on buses but not if you are rural.
Any more stereotypes you want to try?Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostHave you ever heard of the ethic of taking responsibility for yourself?In Scooter we trustComment
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