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VT Headlines: Vermont Foodbank loses 20% of food stock due to Federal cuts

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  1. People ought to buy and donate more foodstuffs to them……Invite some poor folks to dinner now and then?

    • Exactly! Not what I pay taxes for. We need to eat too.
      Also Foreign Auto makers as well as US automakers have already said they aren’t raising prices on Vehicles because of the Tariffs! NBC5 needs to fact check itself!

  2. Every homeless and hungry person should move in with a house or senate member as they are getting free food and housing paid for by the Vermont taxpayer.

  3. Perhaps it’s time to restructure all food charity to be more local or at most statewide.
    The bigger the entity providing free stuff, the more anonymous, faceless and unaccountable it is. In days of old, you relied on neighbors in your own town or at your own church for assistance in times of need. You saw your benefactors face to face on Sunday, at the store or the dump and perhaps offered your gratitude or an explanation of what you are doing to better yourself. Now, the welfare cornucopia comes in the form of a plastic card that looks like any other debit or credit card to eliminate stigma. Sometimes stigma is a good motivator. These Federal cuts are to avoid having the servicing of debt equal to the defense budget.

  4. The illegal Mexican migrant farmworkers get boxes of foodbank foods delivered to their houses on a weekly basis. I have seen much of it get thrown out as often they receive foods they simply don’t recognize and/or stuff they won’t eat. I am not sure why they receive this free gift as they are taking home between $700-$900 a week on the farms while paying no rent, no heat, no electricity, no water, no wi fi, no cable, and no trash/snow removal- the farmers foot those bills. Their only weekly expense is buying groceries. It just seems rather wasteful as there may be other households who genuinely need the food.