Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | January 8, 2012

  Finally, a proposed bill in Massachusetts that isn’t whackadoodle and doesn’t require an increase in taxes, oppressive mandates, or more Nanny State government intervention to assist hungry Americans at food shelters and food banks. Food costs and prices continue to skyrocket. The food needs of millions of desperate American families, of the unemployed and [...]

Category: Business & Economy, Food, Drink, Giving Back, Helping, Social and Political Climate | 1 Comment »
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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 16, 2011

Here’s another example of bloated, arrogant, Nanny State government bureaucracy to hinder or prevent Good Samaritans from helping to feed America’s homeless and needy during this economic crisis unless they have expensive, difficult-to-obtain government permits and adhere to stringent government regulations. Letting the nation’s homeless and poor go hungry seems to be less important than [...]

Category: Business & Economy, Government, Social and Political Climate | 2 Comments »
Tags: Amanda Herring, Bobby Herring, city government, federal government, Feed a Friend, feeding homeless, Florida, government regulation, homeless, homelessness, Houston, Houston homeless, illegal to feed homeless, Miami, Nanny State, poverty, Texas

Vicki McClure Davidson | March 2, 2010

More hopenchange… soon it could be illegal in Miami for “amateurs” to feed the homeless. So, don’t be a good Samaritan if you’re not properly trained and give a hungry homeless man your leftover sandwich. Either throw it in the garbage or risk getting fined by the city. Kindness has a price. From FOX News: [...]

Category: Giving Back, Helping, Government, Law & Constitution, Social and Political Climate | 1 Comment »
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