That's what I thought.

The state filled with proud individualist who don't need nothing from nobody and who are never afraid to tell others to go get a job.

This is in fact, the line of cars, waiting for free food in San Antonio.

Well what did you think would happen when the entire state shutdown and the unemployed number spikes by hundreds of thousands in less than a month?

This is exactly why Gov. Abbot is reopening the state.

My state is shut down. I know of no lines of cars, waiting for food before the sun comes up. They're saying 10,000 cars.

Yes, this is obviously a problem. The country is a complete disaster.

What state is that? I live in CA, it's happening here too.

https://laist.com/2020/04/18/socal_los_angeles_food_banks_coronavirus_epic_need_epic_lines.php

I don't even know what to think of it. I can't imagine waking up before the sun, throwing clothes on so that I could sit in my car, in a line all day, waiting for a bag of grocery's. Where were we 4 weeks ago? In another world, boasting about how great things were.

Our entire society is just a thin veil of BS, draped over complete disaster.

You're lucky Bernie got beat out by Biden or you'd have long bread lines.

You have severe emotional issues. Two Weeks ago you were saying the US is third world country because grocery stores had low stocks. And now that the issue has been solved and grocery store stocks are normal, this is your new reason to clutch your pearls and cry.

These people are lining up for FREE FOOD. Only in America can you find such an abundance of food, that we have huge warehouses full of it and we give it away for free.

The country needs to open so people can go back to work.

Since when have grocery stores been stocked?
They're still lacking pasta. Pasta! That stuff that has a shelf life of 20yrs!

Still lacking TP, pasta, now hardware stores are lacking seeds to plant our own crops.

We should be so proud we have 10,000 cars filled with people waiting all day in the sun of Texas, waiting for free f**king food because they lost their jobs two weeks ago and are out of money!

What the hell is wrong with you?

And yes, the doom and gloom warning of what would happen with Bernie as Prez. It's happening now so I'm not too concerned about warnings.

I don't care who is President. When 10,000 people in San Antonio stop working and in two weeks need to wait in a line of 10,000 cars for free food for hours on end, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

I'd go out and shoot a deer before waiting in line all day with my hand out.

I don't know what the solution is. I don't care if you lean left or right. There can be little doubt, what we're doing is not working. People should not be this close to losing everything and waiting for free food. We need to completely upend our system. Most of Americans are nothing but a bunch of working peasants.

Not exactly showing your emotions are in check.

The grocery stores are back to normal. Shelves are restocked.

Who said we should be proud that 10,000 Americans lined up for free food?

I didn't. I said only in America do you find such an abundance of food that we have huge warehouses full of food that we give away for FREE.

But because you are emotional and not rational you completely misconstrued what I was saying.

You're right something is wrong, but it's not capitalism. We have 22 million people out of work, because of stay at home orders. That's what's wrong.

You can say stores are back to normal all you want. They are not. Eventually, maybe they will be. I don't know what difference that makes in relation to this f**ked up image anyway.

Yes, we have lots of food. We're plowing food under because it can't be sold. THAT is a problem! Our supply chain is not capable of change. That is a problem.

We have people out of work not because of orders. We have people out of work because we're under attack by a virus that can only be stopped by people staying home.

You're saying you're FOR the deaths of millions of people. Pitting people who are trying to save lives, against people who need money to survive in a spiraled down to the lowest common denominator of two poor choices. It's a pessimistic argument with no good solution based on ignorant ass left vs right talking points that don't solve anything.

I'm saying, we need to do better.
1. We need supply chains that can bend and change to sudden changes in need.
2. We need a society that can afford vehicles costing tens of thousands of dollars, to be able to survive more than two weeks without a paycheck
3. We need a society capable of producing masks and protective gear, without China
4. We need a system that can hold other nations accountable for mass world wide pandemics

You are low information.

It's not fact, grocery stores are back to normal. I'm not sending you pictures from my local store to prove it. It's just fact.

Like I said before, it doesn't matter at this point if they are or are not but you like to continue with it nevertheless.

You are low information because you don't even know what I'm talking about when I say they are plowing food under because it can't be sold. Just go away. If you don't know what the hell you're talking about, you can't have a counter argument.

"Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, a region that supplies much of the Eastern half of the United States with produce, tractors are crisscrossing bean and cabbage fields, plowing perfectly ripe vegetables back into the soil."

To compare this virus to the flu, again just proves how low information you are. Just go away.

You are too emotional to take seriously.

It's a fact, grocery stores are back to normal which shows the adaptability of our supply chain (which you know nothing about). We had three weeks of unprecedented demand, and now, supply has adjusted.

"We're plowing food under because that can be sold"? What does that even mean. That sentence makes zero sense.

And no people are not out of work because of a virus. Every year we have an infectious disease outbreak in this country known as the flu. Every year it infected tens of millions and kills tens of thousands, and somehow we don't see 22 million people losing their jobs over it. What's different this time is we have shut down our economy. That's why people lost their jobs.

The cars in the foreground of the picture only total a bit over 1000 cars. The people saying 10000 cars may be a bit exagerated in their claim. Can not see all areas clearly bu twould be suprised if total got to half that quoted amount. Still alot though.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/10/food-bank-line-overflowing-cars-san-antonio-families-hungry-coronavirus-pandemic-texas/

Cars costing tens of thousands of dollars, lined up for a single bag of grocery's. It's a totally f**ked image no matter how many actually went through.

That's San Antonio - that's a liberal town. Doing further searches, the food bank in Austin has similar lines, as does Houston. You were saying?

60% of America lives paycheck to paycheck. Maybe people living too large, maybe income is too low, maybe it's a combination of things. 60% of America should not be this close to needing free food.

People in the United States get free food during Coronavirus...meanwhile in actual third world socialist country there is no food, and people are rioting because they are starving to death.

"Despite a six week mandated nationwide coronavirus lockdown, broad protests have once again gripped parts of Venezuela amid crippling food and fuel shortages. Citizens are being asked to stay home, yet can't get enough food to survive.

New reporting by Bloomberg counts at least 500 protests across 15 states so far this month, which has included multiple killed and scores wounded and arrested in often violent clashes with police, also as protests turn to looting."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/food-fuel-riots-grip-venezuela-amid-covid-19-lockdown

What are you trying to say?

Americans shouldn't be rioting because they are so much better off than socialist countries?

Obviously you are too lazy to click a link. The story is about Venezuela. Not America.

The story addresses many fronts. America's negative impact again, to S. America and how we can only seem to make the situation worse for people. Poor peoples struggle during a crises.

What direction are you taking?

Its pretty clear what I take from it, but we know that you suffer from reading comprehension problems.

US Citizens = FREE FOOD = Capitalist Economy

Venezuela = NO FOOD + RIOTS = Socialist Economy

Two months ago, you would say, "free food" is socialism.

It's pathetic if we have to compare ourselves to Venezuela to feel good about ourselves.

The UK is paying the unemployed 80% of their pay weekly through this mess. We're too busy giving corporate welfare out to care about the common man. I've yet to receive a penny of the 2.2 trillion. We're hardly a capitalist society any longer. We don't own anything. We may own it on paper but just stop paying taxes and see how much longer you own it before the state, municipality, takes it away and sells it on you. We all pay rent, even on our homes after they are paid for.

I'm always hearing how capitalism is so great from proud Americans. Next you'll be telling me how wonderful the free market economy is. All companies ship their jobs overseas so they can pay workers $5.00 a week, put bars on the windows so workers won't commit suicide due to the working conditions, so we can live in our free market, capitalist society.

We've let capitalism run on steroids for too long and it's damn near ruining us. When we can't supply ourselves with face masks, PPE, and other basic necessities in a disaster because we've shipped all production of cheap goods overseas, that's a problem.

You can bet the only reason Trump stopped calling it the, "Chinese Virus" is because he was warned to shut his trap or forget about any future shipments of PPE.

Thanks to run away capitalism, we're now a nation that is owned.

False. I would never call food banks socialism. Why? Because the food is not procured by the government, from Government owned farms and then rationed to the public.

Food banks receive food from donation. Not force from the government.

It would help you to go and learn what socialism is, and then you could avoid these embarrassing posts riddled with nonsense.

A handout is a handout. Freeloaders don't care where it comes from as long as it's free. You're side stepping nearly the entire point. We both know why.

False. Charity is not the equivalent of socialism. Charity is done by one's own actions and said actions are not compelled by anyone else.

Again, read a f**king book you ignorant idiot.

Keep ranting about socialism. We will never be a socialist state. I know it's a big argument against Dems. It's a talking point. That is all. Socialized medicine does not make a socialist state but please, do continue with the crazy. This is fun.

LOL...nowhere hear have we discussed socialized medicine. You're creating a distraction via a red herring.

You claimed free food is a handout and therefore socialism. This only underscores your massive lack of education and lack of understanding in the difference between socialism and charity.

So yes please, continue with the crazy

Free ANYTHING is a handout to someone!

You're arguing semantics that don't matter.

By the way, food banks most certainly DO get state and federal funding! From multiple sources, continuously! Yes, of course they take donations but that is not where all their funding comes from.

Trump is creating perhaps the largest government subsidized system in history to get food to food banks for the needy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/23/fixing-food-dumping-food-banks/?arc404=true

Holy f**k, why so f**ked up there? They gonna need ALOT of food.