If you have leftovers that can't be donated to a food kitchen, how about inviting a less fortunate family or individual to your house to partake of the leftover meal? My dad has done that frequently, as my step mother cooks enough for an army. Dad then usually invites the male(s) of the household to help him do yard work or something to earn a few dollars.

Ok, the beggers can't be choosers saying is just that, a saying I grew up with. As for them not taking the food, I understand the health issues. However, it just bothers me that when people try to give or do the right thing, the government steps in and makes it difficult or just more costly.

 

Really the correct answer is the soup kitchen just doesn't like my cooking, which is completely understandable.:idunno:

The real reason they won't accept the food is the knowledge that, the minute one person gets sick, there will be a Bulldog lawyer standing on their doorstep, ready to litigate them into oblivion.

I read an interesting article this weekend which quoted an Eastern Ky school district official as saying: "The greatest challenge we face as educators is how to break that dependency on government. In second grade, they have a dream. In seventh grade, they have a plan."

Public assistance can certainly become habitual for some. However, to compare it to instinctive abilities of animals is a bit ludicrous. Further, when animals cannot find enough food in the wild, often their young starves. If they have multiple young, sometimes selective parenting (feed the stronger "cub" letting the other starve) will occur.

 

If we are like bears, are we okay with allowing children to starve? Allow parents to "select" which child to feed? Of course not. That's pretty ludicrous, too.

 

I don't know of many people in my personal life that don't see that there are problems with public assistance. However, I don't think that "not feeding the bears" is a morally viable solution.

 

Nope.. We encourage folks to have more children so their govt assistance check can be bigger.

The real reason they won't accept the food is the knowledge that, the minute one person gets sick, there will be a Bulldog lawyer standing on their doorstep, ready to litigate them into oblivion.

Or a Leatherneck Lawyer perhaps .

Or a Leatherneck Lawyer perhaps .

 

When Hell freezes over, you might see me suing someone who did something trying to help others. But even then, I doubt that you would see it.