Bloomberg Strikes Again: NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless-WTF?

[bbinacan]

Please tell me this is some sick joke.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/

[Cal Carpenter]

1. It's a crime to be poor in America

[Cal Carpenter]

2. These kitchens are generally health-department approved

They work with the food they have, much of which is headed for the fucking garbage otherwise.

There is constant effort to have balanced and healthy meals. Some grants are specifically nutrition-related in order to encourage and fund these efforts.. What the fuck does he want.

This fucking billionaire piece of shit can go fuck himself. Greedy disgusting capitalist pig who would rather let people starve and throw out the fucking food. Throwing out people and resources. Sick. Parasitic.


"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
--Hélder Câmara

eta: this shit really hits a nerve to me. Sorry for the ranting, but there may be more, LOL

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Daire all spozta gota Joisyer sumware.

Donneed no bumzin Nyawk.

[Ed Suspicious]

4. Yes, good policy, because the biggest, most pressing concern for the hungry homeless is a well

balanced, heart healthy diet. My dad used to say he was so hungry he could eat the ass-hole out of a skunk. I now see that if he were homeless in Bloomberg's NYC that might have been one of his only options.

[meaculpa2011]

5. There is no limit to this...

D-Bag's megalomania!

[Curmudgeoness]

6. Let the poor and hungry eat out of dumpsters instead!

People who are hungry and unable to afford to buy food are grateful for any food. And even the people who can afford, barely, to buy food are not able to afford all the healthiest foods. They have to buy the foods that stave off hunger and fill you up.

I have seen people digging through dumpsters for edible items. I know that these people are not worried about the salt content, fat, or fiber. Apparently, Mayor Bloomberg doesn't understand the reality.

And I especially liked this: "But Mayor Bloomberg, a salt-aholic himself, was unapologetic." Do as I say, damn it, not what I do.

[WinkyDink]

7. So's ya don't give'em big sodas!

[elehhhhna]

8. bloomie has an eating disorder

wtf else is he so obsessed with controlling dietary habits?

Or he's senile. Regardless, foodobsessed.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Obviously, the man has never known real hunger.

Hell, he probably can't even imagine what it's like.

[Chan790]

10. Time to break out my favorite tee-shirt again.

I never got so many "I like your shirt" comments as when I wore it around Manhattan.

[East Coast Pirate]

11. He's an asshole.

[Princess Turandot]

12. The article is from March 2012

which of course doesn't make it less bad, if it stayed in force.

There's a nonprofit organization here in NYC called City Harvest (http://www.cityharvest.org/) which collects food from numerous sources, from simple donations to the excess food prepared by restaurants, catering places etc. and brings it to places feeding the homeless/poor. FWIW, they're still going strong, which would seem to indicate that the 'ban' in the article was reversed.

[rhett o rick]

13. I think what he actually said was, "Let them eat cake." nm

[Squinch]

14. November cannot come fast enough for me. This man is ruining lives.

[oneshooter]

15. And yet there are people on this board who support him.

[matthews]

16. Clever way to starve out the homeless. That's all this guy is doing here.

May his punishment in Hell be standing just out of reach of a meal. For all eternity.

Yes folks, if there is a Hell, this man has a first class ticket to ride.