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BoRaGard

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Thu Apr 10, 2025, 07:03 AM Apr 10

Trump's cuts will stifle Florida food banks, expand hunger crisis

G.O.P. cuts (to enable tax breaks for the rich) are strangling food banks from coast to coast. This link below is to one news story among many -- California, New York, Ohio, Kansas -- you name it. Republicons are busy yanking food from the mouths of the hungry - even in their very own red states. So unchristian. Jesus would not do.

"You'd almost think that a county known for its "Wall Street South" ambitions, its sky-high rents, eight-figure housing sales, and its high concentration of luxury automobile dealerships and potential Michelin Guide restaurants, wouldn't have a problem with feeding its less fortunate. Yet, it's a problem for Palm Beach County (Florida) — unfortunately a growing one.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/editorials/2025/04/10/trump-cuts-florida-food-banks-hunger/82979948007/

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Trump's cuts will stifle Florida food banks, expand hunger crisis (Original Post) BoRaGard Apr 10 OP
Krasnov will sell it as weight loss bucolic_frolic Apr 10 #1
Hunger is the point Johnny2X2X Apr 10 #2
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