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1. Love this rather “mic-drop” line from Catherine here: “If we can grow food, we can create a community currency, and then we don’t need their money.” Getting more chickens this Spring to expand my egg production to include a bartering/selling/donating stash. Food is the new gold: better believe it.

   1. 100% yes, since when did we expect the government to feed us. Grow food on your balcony and create community gardens to share food. Bulk rice, beans, etc. is cheap. The problem is people don’t know how to do anything anymore, or they are just too lazy and want everything convenient. The people on assistance buy a lot of junk food and processed foods.

   2. There’s a throwaway line somewhere in ‘The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-1849’ to the effect that many of the peasantry literally did not know the value of money. For some, the potato furnished all their food needs, with one third of the population living on the edge of starvation each year.

   3. Spot on. Thank you for the post. I concur. One person can grow eggs another can put together a victory garden. It’s astonishing how much food one can grow in such a small space as 15 feet by 30 feet. The main thing is living where it is possible to grow your own food.

      1. So true. Our home is on a bit less than 5 acres. When we moved here 25 years ago we decided to primarily plant trees and other things that produced food. Berry bushes weren’t very successful, but the past few years, each summer and fall I’m amazed at the folo”d the land produces with very little effort. I thank God regularly for all of the food! Some years are better than others, but we have pears that we can’t give away, so the chickens enjoy them, persimmons, figs, ľgo to the deer and squirrels. We have pecans, hazelnuts, walnuts if someone wants to put in the effort and all kinds of greens that are perennial. Yet harvesting seems to be to much work! So

         If we could find a way to promote yards for food, it would be a great start. 10% of the SNAP budget to promote local gardens is one idea. Maybe 1.5 times SNAP,if you plant your own food. , We are older so it takes us awhile to harvest, and there is a fair amount I our yard that goes to the wildlife. Unfortunately I tell our employees to come help themselves, but we don’t get much interest. Yet, if I harvest, they are appreciative. I think our society is just used to either affording what they need, or having their food provided with little or no effort!

         1. How wonderful to have such bountiful land.

2. So, a key element to notice here. This is the unfortunate fact that the federal government is in the business of feeding people. It was never meant to do so, and therefore is incapable of doing so well. Further, the risk of people going hungry because legislators refuse to negotiate is now being realized. Bottom line, get out of the feeding business altogether.

   1. Yes, expecting government to feed us is a huge mistake. It is a means of control and it seems to be working. People need to wake up. If we can’t figure out how to feed ourselves, in this rich country, we are far worse off than I realized.

3. So, why do we still allow and enable our elected public servants to be in charge of feeding anybody?

   1. Excellent question. And why do we allow them and now the bankers to tell us who we can feed?

4. What we really need is to have a food program as in the 1930s. Food should be purchased from US growers and that food be provided to citizens. The current system is set up to have food that is grown, processed and transported outside of the United States with EBT cards (i.e. frozen precooked chicken products from China). We are supporting the grocery store industry not actual farmers. In terms of aid, we would be better to eliminate federal support of food stamps. Local structures always seem to be more effective, so providing food to pantries in our own communities seems smart. Some communities will obviously share values of consideration others will not.

   1. I agree, bring it local and have local farmers provide food. I read of a farmer a few years ago that buried his entire crop because of imports from Mexico. It should have at least been donated to food pantries. To me that is a sin. People could have eaten that food. The system is broken. To depend on the government for our sustenance is the first mistake. There is real food available at markets for cheap prices. People are too lazy to cook, they buy junk food. I shop in a grocery store where you can buy rice, beans, and veggies in bulk and it is cheap. Buy in season. Buy what you can afford and cook. There are many community gardens popping up in yards and on street corners, self-sufficiency is the answer. I am tired of victim mentality. I can empathize with people hurting, but grew up in a home that always lived within our means and ate basic home cooking every night. Food stamps and government assistance infantalizes people and they no longer can sustain themselves with community and self-reliance. Understand we all need help sometimes, but in this country there is no reason to go without food.

5. The government feeds people in order to control them and their votes. Look how successful that has been in eliminating the need for husbands, family structure, and accountability.

   Government manipulates farmers similarly through their own set of subsidies and debt structures.

   But, who is wrong in this picture? The government for doing it or the people for trading their freedoms? Some might say neither some both. People have lost their moral compass.

6. Catherine – can you provide a link to the Colombian president calling out the US leadership as pedophiles or did I misunderstand your and John’s comments in this area?

   1. Start watching around the 8 minute mark, but Judge is usually worth watching even from the beginning.
      https://rumble.com/v71jmxm-judgingfreedom.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a

      Posted Nov. 11th, so if you can’t access it via this link, you can find at Judgenap.com
      It’s a pretty good clip.

      1. Got it. Thank you, Tracy.

         1. I watched it again. I think anyone with social media should repost with a #releaase the files, all the files.
            My guess is the FIB (lol) has spend the past month cleaning the files so that they can be released.

7. Does anyone in the network know whose children were attending the Zuckerberg school, and what the mission / curriculum for this school are?

   1. https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-school-palo-alto-shut-down/
      Montesorri school. Looks legit (not pedo). Thing is a lot of families of not-so-wealthy families are doing the same thing in NY and Cali to avoid the vaccine issue. No one is as blatant as Zuch – listing the school on directories and having a public director, but it is happening in order to educate kids whose parents choose not to vaccinate (this is my guess, not in the article). You have to wonder if that is the ‘problem’, for which more school regulation would be the ‘solution’ – aka make it harder to homeschool in groups for unvaccinated kids – therefore further isolating the unvaxxed kids at home.

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