Only in America will they pass laws that stop people from helping people
its not about helping, its about CONTROL
IS THIS THE AMERICA YOU WANT FOR YOUR CHILDREN? WHEN PEOPLE STARVE BECAUSE A GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAN'T MEASURE THE FOOD NUTRITION, WE HAVE TRUE TYRANNY.
New York City bans food donations; religious groups squeezed out
by Joel McDurmon on Mar 20, 2012
Ask for government, get more government. The New York Post reports,
The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.
In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.
For over a decade, Glenn Richter and his wife, Lenore, have led a team of food-delivery volunteers from Ohab Zedek, the Upper West Side Orthodox congregation. . . . The practice of donating such surplus food to homeless shelters is common among houses of worship in the city. . . .
So you can imagine Richter’s consternation last month when employees at a local shelter turned away food he brought from a bar mitzvah.
He’s a former city Housing Authority employee, and his wife spent 35 years as a South Bronx public-school teacher, so they’re no strangers to bureaucracy and poverty. But an exasperated Richter says, “This level of micromanagement is stunning.”
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