Government Cracks Down on Feeding Hungry Children
It is essential to the liberal agenda that people believe there would be terrible suffering without government coercion. Therefore, it shouldn’t surprise anyone when that very coercion is used to repress voluntary charity:
A Pennsylvania woman who offers free lunch every day to low-income children in her neighborhood faces a $600-a-day fine next summer if she continues because she did not clear the food giveaway with township officials.
Angela Prattis donates her time to distribute the meals — supplied by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia — and adheres to strict paperwork, like filling out weekly reports and being visited bi-weekly from a state worker, MyFoxPhilly.com reports.
That’s not good enough for the bureaurats, who don’t cotton to competition:
Chester Township, which has a per capita income of $19,000 a year, says Prattis lives in a residential zone, hence handing out food to children is not allowed. The township says she needs to go before a zoning board to ask for a variance, which would cost her up to $1,000 in administrative fees.
Uh oh, we could have a rebel on our hands:
Prattis told The Delaware County Times that she is not going to stop feeding the children in the area.
Prattis must be stopped immediately, before it occurs to people that private charity is much more efficient than our bloated government’s practice of spreading the wealth around.
On a tip from J.
Pay attention LIBERALS, your lesson begins NOW!
When the government interferes with the people, good and charitable works are hindered and stopped. The leadership of this township would rather see needy children go hungry than have their ignorant rules and fees ignored.
You ask how the government can great jobs, or make people wealthy, or make them charitable? The answer is right here, the government needs to shut up and get out of the way.
Angela Prattis is making a brave stand here, but petty and incompetent burocrats will go out of their way to ruin her and stop her work.
You go girl!
They must keep Philly streets clear for more worthy liberal programs
Like needle exchange
http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/drugs/philly-needle-exchange-upsets
I don’t get it. There are nearly 30 different federal food programs plus more from state local and private charitis.
How are there still hungry children? Where is all that money going?
Eric Bolling on The Five offered to pay the $1,000 application fee.
Professor Hale, that money is going to pay the salaries of the government workers who administrate the program, their offices, and the equipment they need to run the program.
Sadly, after all of those “necessary” expenses, there is very little money left over for food and distribution. So to make the program cost effective, those aspects have been dropped.
Actually, Philly was one of the first to develop an app, where ordinary citizens can record and send examples of wasteful and fraudulent activity to bureaucrats, where they can relive them over and over again
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2011/04/19/government-waste-fraud-reporting-app.html
But they sure get the cemeteries in Philly to show up and vote
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/topic/philadelphia-political-corruption/
Yet I would be willing to bet my next paycheck (if I had a job that actually provided me with a paycheck) that she will gladly and blindly vote for 0bama and a straight Democrap ticket come November.
Sorry, not a lot of sympathy for her situation from me. She votes for the Tyranny Party and gets what she deserves.
Professor Hale
A family member recently went with a church group to Vegas to “feed the homeless”
It was also meant to be a learning experience on the plight of the homeless.
Well, what she learned was that the reason these people are still hungry in today’s society is that before they can swipe their EBT card, or (in this case) pick up the tray, they also need the other hand that is holding the crack pipe
The Federal war on drugs
The Federal war on poverty.
Two obscenely expensive endeavors, both which require the other to fulfill their ultimate mission
Creating MORE federal bureaucrats
Eric Bolling of Fox News offered to pay her $1,000 license fee live on “The Five.”
Liberals talk
Conservatives do.
Moonbat Spaniards have a slightly different approach to feeding the hungry: Communist mayor leads mob of looters to raid grocery stores
We’ll see this sort of stuff happening here if Obama is not defeated in November.
Well, it’s just common sense that the city needs to be checking up on people who run around cajoling bums into accepting and eating “food”. Sure, no one has dropped dead after eating the food – yet – but I’d certainly think twice before I’d ever let my kids eat that stuff.
Has this woman been keeping a secret list of the poor (dead) souls whom she’s so far managed to fool with her deadly “gifts”? I’m not aware of any specific facts that support such a story, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
And, even if she’s NOT a well-organized and long-hidden serial killer preying upon our elderly and poor – hardly likely given the secret evidence we’ve seen, but just for the sake of argument – who do you think will be checking to make sure that she doesn’t serve non-approved fattening food, or non-diverse fare from one culture only, or that her sinks are 31″ from the ground so that the wheelchair-abled can use them? Who will ensure that she doesn’t try to serve her meals on plates made of unfinished and protected Swirled Elephant Rosewood from the exotic shores of Madagascar, or that she’ll always wear hairnets? Has she had her shots? Is she secretly one of Harry Reid’s co-pedophiles, joining with him to troll our nation’s parks for young innocents to despoil in her free time?
We simply don’t know the answers to these questions, and that is unacceptable. The people who shoulder the daily responsibility of checking each one of us over to make certain we’re properly social-minded and progressive and thus deserving of being given a business – our government leaders and workers – are just completely overworked and swamped now that they’ve all been temporarily sent over to the Unemployment offices to help with the crush of new applicants, and so it’s taking extra time now to secure approval – government approval! – for things people want to do, but the proper response to these delays is to WAIT, not to decide to use individual judgment (which cannot possibly protect us all in the way Government Judgment does) and just strike blindly out into the food preparation bureaucratic maze lacking licenses and inspections and caseworkers and counseling.
We need to stop this woman before some poor starving bum gets handed an illegally-large beverage, or, God forbid, a salted snack of some kind.
bobby
Just like the state health officials here who are now cracking down on bouya (soup) feeds for charity, because the bouya is made using fresh chicken and vegetables by seventy year old grandmothers in their kitchens (the horror) verses processed and stamped in a USDA inspected and certified plant witnessed by genuine sleeping government inspectors, and reheated in a state certified on site state of the art cafeteria costing additional tens of thousands (which is the very reason for the charity drive in the first place)
I’ve seen this over and over around where I live. Freebird’s attempted making a world record burrito, with plans to serve it to the homeless after it was certified. The county made sure to put a stop to that. It wasn’t “sanitary” to serve the burrito to the homeless.
There was a woman in Ventura who was serving breakfast to the homeless near where they congregate. The county shut her down due to lack of permits, licenses, etc.
Just say “No” to private charity; say “Yes” to Big Brother – He will provide…
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The government Jack Boot is now on her throat. Wait, she is black. The Chester country government must be r-r-r-racist! Will Jesse Jerkson, his mentally deranged son, Al Sharptongue and Louis Bow Tie Farakhan along with the New Black Panthers show up to protest?
The bureaucrats who whine about “sanitation” have obviously never witnessed a bum eating out of a dumpster.
I hope this woman chooses to go Galt. Hopefully she calls a press conference and states that, due to regulation, no more food will be provided.
By complying with the miles of red tape she is only legitimizing its existence.
The government is putting this good black woman in CHAINS!!! Chains of RED TAPE.
You can’t even build a DOGHOUSE or a lean-to over a woodpile without a permit and two or three visits from a city inspector.
AC says: August 17, 2012 at 9:49 am
Dude, when I was in HS, I witnessed a homeless guy, in the NYC subway, scrape up dried soda (at least that’s what I think it was) off the platform with his fingernail and eat it.
Yet, a freshly made burrito, probably still warm, is deemed a health hazard…
FYI Eric Bolling of Fox News & Business has paid the fines to keep her in this ministry!
The churches here on O’ahu have resorted to feeding the homeless under the cover of darkness. There’s a group of Methodists that set up an “illegal” breadline (usually spaghetti, salad’ and bread) 2 days a week, after dark, in Kapiolani Park near where I live. I drop in once and a while and leave them $$ – they are always appreciative for the support.
“Liberals” in high places have a tendency to lose it when somebody like Angela Prattis steps up and makes them look bad. If she was moaning about racism and had her hand out, they would love her to death.
What a sad state of affairs when charity must be performed under cover of darkness, as if it were a burglary or a drug transaction.
Do the authorities know about the church’s illegal feedeasy?
I guess it’s only a matter of time before a modern day Elliot Ness puts a stop to unlicensed loving of thy neighbor.
This is really galling. What a travesty that a person doing a good thing should be treated like this. Unacceptable! Unacceptable!
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Anyone doubt that Jesus wouldn’t be arrested by our so-called ‘public servants’ today? But the left have no problem using Biblical teaching on charity as their own twisted logic for oppressive taxes.
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