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wickerwoman

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23. Our whole economy is based on artificial scarcity.

Sat Apr 6, 2013, 08:40 PM

Apr 2013

I just started getting into gardening and this is what I realised. On my little 1/5 of an acre lot, I could grow more food than I could eat if I wanted to. One little packet of seeds had the potential for hundreds of plants that could feed dozens of people.

We have the ability to feed everyone but we choose not to because it would drive the prices down. We have the ability to cloth and house everyone. We have the technology to let anyone talk to anyone else in the world or to sit down and watch any movie ever made or listen to any song or read any book but we choose to deny all of those things to the most unfortunate amongst us so that the more fortunate can get richer and richer. And the only excuse we give is that the poor haven't "earned" those things which we could easily share with everyone.

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“American Dream”: Food loaded into Dumpsters while Hundreds of Hungry Americans Restrained by Police [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 OP

"If they didn't pay for it they have no right to it. Occulus Apr 2013 #1

Please tell that to the police that can go through people's trash. Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #3

EVERYTHING is property of the police, should they decide it so. Occulus Apr 2013 #5

dumpster kardonb Apr 2013 #13

Ironically, taking weight out of the dumpster may have saved them money Dragonfli Apr 2013 #91

Hungry people, sulphurdunn Apr 2013 #19

And first, that's the problem with being a "centrist..." VPStoltz Apr 2013 #51

that makes me want to cry. barbtries Apr 2013 #2

Me too ! fishing gal Apr 2013 #55

I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. tblue Apr 2013 #79

That's a sin. I really hate what this country has come to. n/t Cleita Apr 2013 #4

I hate this world undergroundpanther Apr 2013 #6

Agree, sadly. antiquie Apr 2013 #8

It's a lot easier to go from being Poor formercia Apr 2013 #17

Our whole economy is based on artificial scarcity. wickerwoman Apr 2013 #23

Amen to that IrishAyes Apr 2013 #53

Right. If we did the right thing, rich people might not get richer, and making valerief Apr 2013 #60

It's only a matter of time. defacto7 Apr 2013 #46

Sickening, heartbreaking, and morally bankrupt. n/t Joe Shlabotnik Apr 2013 #7

Did someone say this is Christian country? Downwinder Apr 2013 #9

Yes, many have. Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #10

They find it rather easy IrishAyes Apr 2013 #38

The fuckbagggers who call themselves Christian.... 47of74 Apr 2013 #56

Leviticus 23:22.... paleotn Apr 2013 #21

But didn't you know IrishAyes Apr 2013 #42

Oh it is... zeemike Apr 2013 #29

Gotta love Al Franken IrishAyes Apr 2013 #54

As I should have guessed, Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #11

I can tell you for a fact that many of the homeless are getting far to restless. Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #14

if it scares you, think about how the Corporate perpatraters feel... Volaris Apr 2013 #31

It's just that I have had a small taste of what people in a desperate atmosphere can be like. Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #34

It's amazing how an empty stomach can put starch in a person's backbone IrishAyes Apr 2013 #57

V for Vendetta. And the Graphic Novel was much, much better. Volaris Apr 2013 #61

Thank you, I shall IrishAyes Apr 2013 #64

I dont think so. The rich dont have countries anymore. They are 'global". robinlynne Apr 2013 #93

I have a feeling that you are right Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #33

Right now there is no leader... Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #35

That's the false calm before the storm. IrishAyes Apr 2013 #58

It should scare everyone IrishAyes Apr 2013 #45

That isn't what amazes me. Or, should I say, what saddens me. Occulus Apr 2013 #73

I shudder. Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #89

That is beyond sad it is mean spirited and evil azurnoir Apr 2013 #12

Just one example IrishAyes Apr 2013 #62

Should Have Given It Away erpowers Apr 2013 #15

Sorry, The capitalist world system is morally bankrupt and always has been. blackspade Apr 2013 #27

which is why in order for it to be sustainable long-term, Volaris Apr 2013 #44

Does Not Have To Be That Way erpowers Apr 2013 #83

The system IS the problem IrishAyes Apr 2013 #47

The bank and their lawyers most likely saw giving the food away R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2013 #16

That's the sorriest excuse I have heard .. you really think these people who accepted .. YOHABLO Apr 2013 #32

Try reading what I actually wrote. You just read my words back to me. R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2013 #70

The banks' INSURANCE COMPANIES think that. Occulus Apr 2013 #74

People are eating out of dumpsters, Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #37

I read the article, and I understood that as well. R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2013 #71

And a lot of municipalities have made dumpster diving a crime IrishAyes Apr 2013 #48

It's been a crime in my neck of the woods a lot longer than the new millennium. R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2013 #72

+1 I am sure that was exactly the reason LiberalLoner Apr 2013 #18

When one of our local (western PA) supermarkets went out of buy started weeks maddiemom Apr 2013 #20

Sorry. Meant "went out of BUSINESS". maddiemom Apr 2013 #22

Your phone too, huh? Occulus Apr 2013 #75

I think, "Let them eat cake," applies. MsPithy Apr 2013 #24

If things like this keep up with so many starting to go without... Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #26

History does repeat itself IrishAyes Apr 2013 #49

But... they WANTED to eat cake. Occulus Apr 2013 #76

They are going to deliver us the tar sands oil, Downwinder Apr 2013 #84

The bank is made up of disgusting scumbags. blackspade Apr 2013 #25

"World's Highest Standard of Living" photo - eighty years later. leveymg Apr 2013 #28

My husband nearly had a breakdown yellerpup Apr 2013 #30

For capitalism to function..... DeSwiss Apr 2013 #36

Too true IrishAyes Apr 2013 #50

food is thrown Niceguy1 Apr 2013 #39

Waste and Want: Grapes of Wrath revisited UnrepentantLiberal Apr 2013 #40

That was exactly my memory when I read this. MannyGoldstein Apr 2013 #52

That should be criminal RoccoR5955 Apr 2013 #41

There is such a thing as "not following orders".... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2013 #43

In a central scene in "The Grapes of Wrath," some farmers let their crops rot to keep prices up, tclambert Apr 2013 #59

What bastards we have residing on this planet. lonestarnot Apr 2013 #63

And the longer we tolerate the status quo IrishAyes Apr 2013 #67

Did the pigs get the donuts? n/t L0oniX Apr 2013 #65

Just FYI for all of you posting here the nonperishables were not thrown out cstanleytech Apr 2013 #66

Read the first graph of the story in your link carefully. Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #78

Well thank goodness I never claimed otherwise cstanleytech Apr 2013 #87

This is why bankers need to be hanged regularly. mbperrin Apr 2013 #68

Another FYI Purplehazed Apr 2013 #69

All that proves is how much police think of the public as dangerous animals who need protection Occulus Apr 2013 #77

My point... Purplehazed Apr 2013 #86

Is there another llink? xxqqqzme Apr 2013 #80

Try this one. Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #88

Another option other than the sole link Lady Freedom cstanleytech Apr 2013 #92

Earn a Bible degree ad at top of the link page. Mnemosyne Apr 2013 #81

This is outrageous Nika Apr 2013 #82

Reminds me of this Woody Guthrie song: raccoon Apr 2013 #85

VIDEO! Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #90