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In reply to the discussion: Woman weeps to senator over Social Security cuts: "There's no way for me to eat less!" [View all]silvershadow
(10,336 posts)post assumes the your plan will help a vast majority (when it won't)- the numbers you assume (80/20) are pie-in-the sky, in my not-so-humble opinion. If it takes a little sarcasm to jolt you from your comfort zone, then it's well worth it in the long run, to me, but only if it has the intended effect- instigating a meaningful dialogue.
I have lesions all over my brain and spinal cord, going all the way to my brain stem, so I could die mid-sentence while talking to you or I could live another 20 or 30 years, so my food is important. So is a diabetic's. So is a lot of other folks. It's my reality. And it's the reality of a great many who desperately need food, real food, in varieties and quantities that are just simply out of reach. Have you tired shopping for gluten-free? Or even just fresh, healthy produce? Or organic? Or meat? I went to the store the other day with my mother for meat, and had to leave the first store and go to a second one because I had bough chicken their cheap many times in the past. Got to the second store, and there was no whole chicken there less than $10, including the value brand I had purchased in the past.