For Alicia Spradley, it all started with a quick prayer.
Spradley from Chicago had seen the news that federal food aid was pausing at the start of November due to the government shutdown. With local food banks already stretched thin, she worried that her neighbors might soon go hungry.
So, on Monday night, she closed her eyes and asked, "What can I do to help?"
A few hours later, she came across a post on a Facebook community group about becoming a "grocery buddy" — someone who buys groceries for a stranger or anyone at risk of losing their food benefits. Without hesitation, Spradley wrote her own callout, offering support.
10 Comments
batdad90@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 283d
Here come all the “feel good” stories of good people stepping up while our government lavishly spends and produces manufactured starvation.
To clarify, I’m proud of people stepping up to help and do the right thing but this situation is beyond fucked.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 283d
Orphan crushing machine
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 283d
This is like neighbors helping each other during a flood or hurricane, a positive support network to address a crisis that should not be normalized as a long term solution.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 283d
Maybe but that flood or hurricane was an “act of god” even if society’s actions made it more likely and more serious. Meanwhile this crisis was directly and immediately man made. It’s not like you can blame probability or the vagaries of weather or claim climate changes indirect, this is directly caused by sociopaths that are somehow in control
jaykrown@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 283d
I wonder if Bezos, Musk, or Zuckerberg have ever closed their eyes and asked, "What can I do to help?" Probably not, right?
macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 283d
I paid McKinsey a million dollars to research options and they couldn’t find any. Sad.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
Only a million? I know why they didn't find any solutions for you.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
The solution is obviously to tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I'll send you the invoice for my consulting fee tomorrow.
WeeSheep@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 282d
We are spending our money, after taxes, on things taxes should be paying for, so we are paying twice? No, because the things our taxes are being paid for are oligarchs to be richer. Why were we still paying taxes if they aren't primarily benefitting the population? We don't have a government for the people by the people. We have propaganda keeping oligarchs in power of a corporatocracy.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 282d
This would be a great time for people to split bulk things at Costco, maybe if they get used to it they will continue doing it too.