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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the economic metrics show us at Great Depression levels yet life seems so normal.  I know DC is always more insulated from economic downturns but stories from my relatives in other cities bely a sense or normalcy.  Why is that?  My grandparents had depression era stories of long bread lines, wearing tattered clothes, shantytowns popping up in cities, etc.  Are we just too early in this cycle to see the worst effects?  [/quote]

Get outside your bubble.

The soup kitchen lines where I live in this area have always stretched a block or more. And there are car lines that are hours long.

I can see shantytown in the wooded areas around here. They have been here for years. Once the evictions start next month, you’ll see more families sleeping in cars and on the streets.

I saw a family trying to take clothing out of a donation box last week. They were looking for shoes for a boy a bit younger than my own. The mom said that when Payless closed, shoes became too expensive. I gave her $40 and she started crying. I grew up with too tight shoes due to poverty and it’s something that still breaks my heart.[/quote]

Honestly, pp doesn't have to go too far outside her bubble to see the impact of the pandemic. I was house hunting not too long ago, and I came upon a long trail of cars waiting to get into a soup kitchen near Briggs Chaney Rd. The traffic to get in was so backed up that they had cops out directing traffic. This was in May. [/quote]

I volunteer for my church and we pack boxes with groceries and delivery them every day. Yes, people come more than in pre-pandemic times, but at the same time, all these people come in a nice cars (I've handled boxes to BMW, Escalate, hondas, etc.), a lot of ladies comes with their nails done professionally, and holding the latest model of iPhones. [/quote]
Your attitude defeats the whole point of volunteering at church. [/quote]

+1 Shows a complete lack of empathy and compassion. It's humiliating to ask for free food. To have someone judge you for the state of your fingernails or your cell phone is just sickening.[/quote]

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