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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As I predicted.

Dangerous snow conditions that require people to stay off the streets is just that! Ppl were not venturing out unless there was TRUE need, which obviously there was/is not[b]. The starving child that schools must remain open for simply does not exist in the large numbers DCPS likes to claim[/b].

Social programs like food stamps and food banks ensure that at least people are able to eat. [/quote]

I work with homeless families and find this to be true. The one area where they are very well covered is food. Other services/items not so much. Often when we offer food donations they are turned down because the families get plenty of food stamps and don't need any more food. In fact, where we normally give grocery gift cards out at holidays, [u]families requested to be given restaurant gift cards instead so they take their children out to eat.[/u] So that's what we did.[/quote]

Seriously?  This actually makes me angry.  People above the poverty level don't do this because of the cost and because they can't afford it.  People who do manage to donate to food banks.  And people who normally benefit from that turn around and ask for GIFT CARDS to restaurants?  I always believed charity starts at home (meaning locally or your own country), but maybe I'll rethink that.[/quote]

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