Food Bank Holds Bake Sale: "Fib Newton" profits sent to Bush

[Rose Siding]

An Orange County group forwards profits from a dessert sale to President Bush, telling him not to eliminate groceries for seniors.

Workers at an Orange County food bank had anything but sweet talk for President Bush on Friday as they sold desserts with such names as "Upside Down Priority Cake," "Fib Newtons," and "Double Cross Buns" to protest proposed cuts to a federal food program for the elderly.

Food bank officials, usually surrounded by cans of meat and boxes of cheese, cooked up tastier fare prepared with a pinch of satire for their "budget bake sale" in front of a Stanton big box retailer. Items for sale also included "Political Tarts," "Flaky Policy Pie," "Pennywise Pound Foolish Pie," "Social Security Rolls" and "Program Crumbles."
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Most stopping for treats Friday in Stanton were unaware of the pending cuts, but were quick to opine anyway.

"This government wants us to stay in Iraq while people in America have problems getting food," said Brad Granger of Fountain Valley.

Debbie Upton donated $10. Her stepfather, a disabled truck driver who gets a Social Security check, is a program recipient. "These boxes mean a lot to him," said Upton, who loaded her car with two "Social Security Rolls" next to his box of canned meat, cereal and cheese she had picked up earlier.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-funnyfood1apr01,1,5723631.story?coll=la-headlines-california

[misternormal]

1. Anyone remember the line in "A Christmas Carol"...

In which Scrooge asks the men collecting donations for the poor if there are no workhouses and prisons for the poor to go to, and the donations men say that most would rather die than go to those places... To which Scrooge states, then they should do so and get rid of the surplus population???

This, the Medicare Prescription plan along with all of the other programs the admin wants to get rid of, is designed to do exactly what scrooge proposed... "Get rid of the surplus population"

In other words, the poor, the elderly and anyone that can not afford a gas guzzler should just die and get it over with. The pittance that the gov't gets from their paltry taxes in no way compares to the money that they can collect from big business to keep doing their dirty work.

I was never in favor of public executions until this administration.