SAN FRANCISCO-Seniors food program on chopping block-Food bank chief lobbies against Bush budget cut

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SAN FRANCISCO
Seniors food program on chopping block
Food bank chief lobbies against Bush budget cut

Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

A 2-pound block of cheese. Two boxes of cereal. Two pounds of rice. Three cans of orange juice. Three cans of evaporated milk. Two cans of apricots. Four cans of mixed vegetables. A can of beef. And a jar of peanut butter.
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For the second year in a row, President Bush has proposed eliminating the Commodity Supplemental Food Program as a way to save money and avoid duplicating nutritional programs for seniors. The program costs $106 million and provides food boxes to about 500,000 seniors, pregnant or postpartum women, and children. It currently serves 57,000 Californians, including 9,600 in San Francisco and 1,470 in Sonoma. The program currently isn't operated in any other Bay Area counties.

Last year, Congress refused to do away with the program, but agreed to trim the number of recipients by about 10 percent.
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"He's sending much too much money to Iraq," said Ron Beverly, 67, who has been collecting the boxes every month for seven years. "They could take a few billion and send it this way and feed people here.
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The POS* is trying to do away with everyone. Arrest this guy and his cabal before it's too late.

[terip64]

1. Kick and Recommend! I lived off of some of these commodities when I was first married...

then Reagan was elected. We ended up being a good investment and have given back for the last 23 years. Geez..

why can't we help people out with the bare minimals.


:shrug:

[Monkeyman]

2. Every Month I give to the food bank

The Lines are getting longer and longer. There For The Grace Of God Goes I. K&R

[alfredo]

3. Guns or butter.

Talk about immoral, but is the poster child of immorality.

[Hawkowl]

4. Evil

Bush is truly the most evil piece of shit president this country has ever had. The corruption, brutality and blatant disregard for basic human rights of even our own citizens, let alone the rest of the world's innocents are staggering.

I too, and several of my friends families counted on these food programs back in the 80's. This type of temporary assistance and human compassion is essential to keep our society functioning at a civil level.

If Bush and his minions do not serve jail time, our we will no longer to be able to claim to live in a democracy, just a Mockracy!

[brentspeak]

5. Hungry and impoverished old people will just have to wait; Halliburton execs need to eat too

[w4rma]

6. And those condos out on Palm Island in Dubai can't be cheap.

http://www.palmsales.ca/