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Sith_Mauler 
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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
So much for serving the homeless.

The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.

In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/no_kugel_for_you_N4VuTrqavfOiApSHngxuMJ#ixzz1pc8XEg00


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wow, that's about effing retarded.

 

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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
Why can't they assess it? You'd think that would cost a lot less than paying for the same people to distribute/process the food in overhead and paying for the food (which would probably be overpriced seeing how the government has no idea how to prevent corrupt officials from being influenced by bid shilling done by who would be supplying it)

 

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dumb

 

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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
Idiots...

 

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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
In TFA they even admit that NYC is providing enough food for the homeless:

"Fine, the city’s making enough nutritious food available to our homeless. (Court mandates require it.) But that’s no excuse for turning away charity that brings a tiny bit of joy into these lives."

So basically this article is complaining about a problem that is being manufactured by the article. Homeless people aren't starving due to the lack of donated, prepared food. I think its a dumb rule, but as long as the city steps up and fills in the gap, then they are doing ok.

 

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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
There is nothing to stop the Charitable Organizations from doing their own thing and many of them will continue to help in their own way.

 

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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
In other news, the shelters have enough food to feed everyone who comes in, no one is starving at the shelter. The shelters are turning away your gigantic cans of crap that you didn't want to eat yourself but figured you'd dump at the shelter to make some room in your cabinet.

 

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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
First philly now NY. Whats with all these liberal cities trying to starve the homeless to death?


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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
Didn't Faromir say something like this was happening where he lives as well?

 

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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
AkagiyamaMissile posted:
Didn't Faromir say something like this was happening where he lives as well?


I think what he said was Republicans started putting locks on dumpsters.

 

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Subject: NYC: Bloomberg no more food donations.
Feeding poor people is stupid. Then they'll just live and breed more poor people!

 

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