We pay taxes for these types of situations so that others can be taken care of. If I knew where this woman was, I'd most definitely want to take her some groceries.

But we couldn't do that for everyone in her position. I want my tax dollars to go to help people who need help; not for tax cuts for billionaires, and therein lies the problem.

Not busting your chops because I am sure you agree with this, and welcome to DU. My point is that we simply have GOT to get sane people back in control in this country. Because mere sanity would dictate that no one should be starving when there are some who can pay millions for some exotic lunacy.

I am shaking with a combination of anger and sadness at this. There seems that this lady starving to death is gonna mess me up now pretty seriously, and I know it it just one tragedy out of millions.

was possible to reach out to the lady in question. I am expecting a confirmation they got my email. I would hope they can get back to me. Not sure if I can sleep the rest of the weekend thinking about this poor soul. How frightened and alone she must be, and how hungry.

Do we know where she lives?..I just don't believe this woman can't be helped.

but damn, it very well is a real suffering person.

but by and large, I'd rather err on the side of kindness, than on that of coldness or hardheartedness.

that popped into my head wasn't sympathy for someone going through a really tough time, but wondering if this person voted for trump. It often seems lately that the people complaining the most are trump voters.

She calls out the Republicans.

With inflation, I don't see how she can afford to eat.

Edit: I listened to the video and it's actually only $65 a month, because her SNAP benefits were cut by Trump to $12.50.

During the Depression.

People would come begging for food and she would always give them a bowl of beans.

Many people are suffering, and people say, "just do this, that, the other thing", but don't realize or don't care that sometimes you can't just jump because someone says to. Oh, just move to where the jobs are. Just move to where there's public transportation. Just do this, and you'll be fine. This site is bad for this kind of "advice".

That woman may be too weak to cook, and needs something easy to heat up. Or she may not know how to cook dried beans. Yes, it's easy enough to learn, but maybe she has other issues as well that prevent her from being able to look it up, like no internet.

I'm 68, and oddly enough, I've got more money now than I've ever had. I just got approved for widow's SS benefits, and almost doubled my payment. I'm still kind of in shock about it, and the back pay I got from the time of the ex's death.

I donate to local blessing boxes, don't trust the food banks. We have issues with managers taking money donations and using them for themself, rather than the needy. I have a few sites I try to get to each week, and the local libraries have drop off areas. Everyone is so surprised when I bring in the food and other items. Like they don't believe anyone would be donating. Since I've been sick, I slowed down a lot, so I'm going to ramp back up this week and have stuff to put out. One month after the big hospital deal, finally feeling like I might actually live through it!

One thing for sure, you can't count on this government doing anything. And it's summer time, school's out, and kids are going to be hungry. Help where you can, it does make a difference.

The food is free to those who live nearby. She needs to ask for help.

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Depending on her area. But there are absolutely places without food pantries or charities. And if she’s struggling this much she probably doesn’t have reliable transportation to get to another area for help.

that she doesn't have any reliable transportation to get help. There but for fortune, I would be in the same situation.

Unfortunately in most states, since the organization is locally run - the organization only supplies meals to homebound seniors and disabled without caretakers who also can't cook for themselves due to a physical condition, not seniors who are running out of food or have no transportation to get to food pantries.

Because if you just make too much money to qualify for generous food stamps - even if you barely afford the room you live in or meds you have to take, or you can get out of the house but don't have a car or friend, family who can take you shopping or you have the means and ability to cook - well, that's your fault for not having enough money or friends, now, isn't it Grammy?
Go call up a church, and wash that moral hazard off your soul. Or just starve, since you're useless now.
My very elderly mother calls the GOP and money-minded Libertarian(asshole) adjacent "Stingy Stinkers" - privileged, lucky folks who know the cost of everything down to the penny when it might affect them, but the value of nothing.

Meals on Wheels used to get all sorts of subsidies from the Federal Government to go along with their assistance programs, allowing them to expand their programs to include lower income people not exactly housebound but unable to access a month's worth of food (either by lack of cash or by living in a food desert without reliable transportation), but I'm pretty sure they got whacked too hard by the DOGE axe to continue with that expansion.

It's unacceptable that in a country as supposedly rich as the US is, with a huge number of single talent billionaires lounging around playing competitive money games with their - spaceships - that there's an increase of people who are starving like that caller.

She's legally blind, and if I'm not mistaken, she said she was 65 years old. That and the fact of being unable to drive because of her eyesight, should certainly qualify her as a 'homebound senior'.
She should call Meals on Wheels..Even if, for some reason, she doesn't qualify for that program, I don't believe the agency couldn't provide at least one viable alternative for someone in this woman's situation.

She talked about the price of propane. People that use propane live in the country. She said she’s 15 miles outside of town. Town could be 200 people for all we know.

There are parts in most states where there’s simply no help available.

So those food pantries would have to be within walking distance that a person who is blind can walk.

The getting to them during operation hours.

Anyone who still thinks Trump and the Epstein Class give a f*ck about the American people should give their head a really powerful shake. Maybe for the 1% yes, the remaining 99% not so much.

March article from Forbes:

I ate the same stuff but when I'm super stressed my body freaks out. I quadrupled my caloric intake and gained 5 pounds back. My sister thought I was doing it on purpose, even my doctor didn't believe me 100% at first. That made me pissed off.

The fucking moron is a psychopathic sadist who gets off on destroying people and things, he is NOT a "builder", he's a "destroyer".

cuts run deep. We do have a food pantry, but this guy makes life a little softer for some of our most needy.

if anyone is hungry. I would gladly bring over food if I knew but I don't. Do you just go knocking on doors? I would be scared to do that.

We do have a big food pantry not far from here so maybe there is not a big problem. But like others said most people go there with cars.

It's about how she's pitifully low on food. She may also not be able to drive and may not be able to cook. She may not have cooking facilities.

My mother is in a care facility (she won't starve) and the thought was that she would be able to cook some meals for herself, with a microwave and stove at wheelchair height. However, some days she simply can't get into her wheelchair (she isn't paralyzed but is difficult to move).

Some of the solutions people are offering aren't practical. You can't eat legumes if you can't cook them.

That's what I said.

Eat BEANS!

Get thee to your local food pantry!

Pick yourself up by your bootstraps!

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Some comments are making me angry

that food deserts and hunger were a myth.

Sounds a bit like some folks think this woman isn't doing everything she can to help herself.

They all deserve to be fired and imprisoned for life.

But those of us who have to work for a living, they suck.

Not a one-time event either.

February 26, 2026.

https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/open-forum-part-2/674085

Sharon's call is at ~3:45 min..

Thank you.