Food 4 Life

old briney · Senior Member

Food 4 Life

neilnruth · Guru

As I read it, the food is for vulnerable people who are at a disadvantage. Do we really qualify??

Jack Mac · Senior Member

Here here neilnruth

old briney · Senior Member

neilnruth wrote:
As I read it, the food is for vulnerable people who are at a disadvantage. Do we really qualify??

if you hold any kind of centrelink card then you qualify

Jack Mac · Senior Member

It isn't necessarily if you qualify. It's about if you need it. I've always been able to feed myself will be able to hopefully continue to do so (I live on a pension with a mortgage). Surely we as a society haven't decided that just because we qualify for a charitable donation we should take advantage of it. There are families out there who desperately need this type of assistance, and I would hate to think there are people who believe that just because we can we should. C'mon we're better than that.

PeterS · Senior Member

Well said Jack Mac! I am not a pensioner, YET, but I would not go looking for charity unless I was really desparate to feed my family, leave it for the ones who really need it, there are plenty now and are going to more as more and more jobs are sent to China & India.

Peter & Rufus

neilnruth · Guru

Well said Jack and Peter. Until I'm one of those who are 'vulnerable' I will leave Food4Life for those who really need it.

Cruising Granny · Guru

Unfotunately there are people in our community who are so tight-fisted with their money they'll do anything to avoid spending their own.
While I applaud wise money management, tight is not an admirable quality In fact I find it downright offensive, especially when they take me out for a meal and emphasise the prices on the menu.
Being resourceful is good. Driving 20kms to save $5 is not. There's cheap and economical, and there's just plain CHEAP.

PeterS · Senior Member

All very true CG !

jimricho · Guru

PeterS wrote:
All very true CG !

Ditto!

This appears to be a charity dependent on donations of time and money and taking advantage of this unless in dire circumstances is downright bludging.

beiffe · Guru

The food is used mainly for charitry workers etc.

Blazeaid were recipients of this type of food whilst we were rebuilding fences and it helped to keep volunteers as we fed them after a days work with this food (or it helped). Blazeaid paid for the breakfast (out of donated money) but that also was subsidised by firms such as the local chicken farm that donated their double yokers as they are not allowed to sell them.

I get a bit dirty when I see drunks come to charity places smoking and then say they are destitute. I remember well that I used to go without meals and have to run around customers requesting they pay their bills so I could take food home for the kids.

I could not afford to smoke or drink and every thing we did was on the cheap but we got through without handouts.

I know it is hard but to see some people drunk in the street smoking away and then they ask for money for food. Sorry not from me.

Regards
Brian

Cruising Granny · Guru

When I first fled from my violent partner with 2 kids I worked, and did not know I may have been entitled to some assistance for rent assistance and child care.
I was smoking about 20 a day, and a pkt of 25 was worth about $1.40. I had to trade soft drink bottles for bread and mil by the end of the week,, and we didn't do much soft drink I can tell you.
I always managed and could teach budgeting if anyone wanted to learn, and change their lifestyle.
Too much is wasted these days and then they claim they can't manage. Drink, drugs, smoke, gambling, mobile phones, electronic games, everything costs. One has to choose what they spend money on.
It's all about priorities.