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aneightfoldway t1_j4hfygb wrote

Reply to comment by elizabeth-cooper in NYC budget cuts could worsen food crisis for hungry families by DrogDrill

Lol go back in this thread and see who brought up soup kitchens and food pantries. Certainly wasn't me.

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elizabeth-cooper t1_j4hgu3p wrote

Yes, let's go back and replay this convo again.

Article: They're cutting jobs! People are starving!

Me: Nobody is starving. Even if SNAP is unavailable, there are still soup kitchens and free meals in schools.

You: Oh yeah, they're cutting soup kitchens!

Me: What? No, they're not. They don't even know what they're cutting. They don't even know if it's related to SNAP.

You: Oh yeah, but you brought up soup kitchens FIRST.

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aneightfoldway t1_j4hh83h wrote

Ok so it looks like you're confused. I didn't say "they are cutting soup kitchens". I said, it's disingenuous to suggest that folks who can't get SNAP can just get go to kitchens/pantries because it's just as possible that the administration of those kitchens/pantries will be negatively affected by these cuts.

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elizabeth-cooper t1_j4hhr99 wrote

>t's just as possible that the administration of those kitchens/pantries will be negatively affected by these cuts.

They're not. The article doesn't even hint at that possibility.

Again: it says they're trying to cut currently vacant positions.

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aneightfoldway t1_j4hk4ut wrote

And, surprise surprise, this article doesn't cover every single thing that could possibly be affected. It's absolutely possible that cutting funding for the agency responsible for assisting the food insecure will leave more people food insecure.

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elizabeth-cooper t1_j4hl6yi wrote

Its not cutting "funding to the agency." It's cutting vacant positions and the funding for those positions. What those positions do, nobody knows. We are going in circles. I keep repeating what the article says and you keep saying YEAH BUT YEAH BUT YEAH BUT

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aneightfoldway t1_j4hlffq wrote

Great, let's stop going in circles. If you think that it's "not true" that people will go without food after cutting funding for positions with the HRA then I wholeheartedly disagree with you. Do with that what you will and have a nice day.

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