We volunteered today at a Community Dinner.

[redstatebluegirl]

They have it every year and feed close to 2000 people. It takes 300 volunteers to get it done. They have been doing this for over 30 years.

It is always humbling but this year there were so many young children and vets. I know some of them come because they do not want to be alone, but the majority are needing a good meal and toys for their kids.

In a country as rich as this one it is just so wrong. People cannot raise a family on what most of our jobs pay.

Just needed to vent.

[onecaliberal]

1. Thank you for expressing compassion and kindness to those you served.

We need so many more like you.

[Arthur_Frain]

2. My musical group provided live music at a friendship meal.

Awesome. So happy to participate. Classic sing along Christmas carols, and some reserved ones. Share. Love. Live.

[Warpy]

3. The national minimum wage has not been raised since 2009

Sorry, guys, but this is fucking criminal. OK, I know TFG would never have signed it, but Biden has had 2 years with a razor thin Congressional majority and the job should have been done.

Individual states, including my own, have raised it to something better than that, but it still doesn't have in terms of purchasing power what it did in 1960. Instead, Congress seems to be clinging to the fiction of trickle down, something absolutely, definitively, and finally and for all time proven to be a vicious and evil crock of shit perpetrated by rich old men who will never be rich enough, no matter what label they put on it or how pretty the ribbon they tie around it is.

The minimum wage is supposed to prevent the kind of worker this country absolutely depends upon from falling into poverty. Well, kids, these days it's not even enough to feed them, clothe them, and house them, and forget silly frills like being able to see a doctor when they get sick or even thinking about having families. That's what it means to have wages below subsistence. Employers are getting a good day's work. Employees are getting a homeless shelter and donated food.

It is not sustainable, it can't last, it has to end. We have to afford to feed our workers. We can't afford billionaires.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. The "Superfeast" in Houston said they had triple the requests

for assistance this year. They distribute toys and clothes as well as food.

[ZonkerHarris]

5. Most of us are victims of capitalism.

[LeftInTX]

6. Great way to spend the day

We're stuck doing the family thing.

I wouldn't mind volunteering, but in-laws would have a fit.