On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:08:12 -0400, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:45:22 -0700, sf wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:46:21 GMT, Orlando Enrique Fiol
> wrote:
>>
>>>sf wrote:
>>>>And armed guards to protect them. There's a reason why decent
>>>>groceries and other retail businesses are not near public housing
>>>>projects.
>>>
>>>See my other post. When people need or want things they can't afford,
>>>they often resort to theft. Grocery stores would have to be subsidized
>>>so that their merchandise was consistently affordable or even free to
>>>the poorest people in greatest need.
>>>
>>People in America are not that poor. Drugs are at the root of the
>>problem, not poverty. Drug dealers don't barter, they deal in cold
>>cash. People steal to get money to buy drugs. If they receive
>>welfare, their priority is drugs not food. Even so, stealing food
>>isn't a necessity here in America. All they need to do is show up at
>>a soup kitchen and they are fed. There is NO valid excuse to steal
>>food in this day and age.
>
>again, your soup kitchens are so well-founded or -stocked they never
>turn anyone away? everyone eats until they're full? where do you
>live?
>
Hell, there are people on the streets giving sandwiches to people who
won't go to a soup kitchen here.


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