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I feel like you're unclear on what poverty, homelessness, and hunger are.

You have proposed that a homeless person obtain a phone, find a library that'll mail books, obtain a mailbox, have a book mailed to them, presumably pay for return postage, all so they can obtain recipes to cook on a stove they don't have with utensils they likely lack with ingredients they can't afford.

Homeless people aren't in that situation because they needed someone to write down "how to make rice in a pot", nor are they likely to have discretionary income for your proposals.



>I feel like you're unclear on what poverty, homelessness, and hunger are.

And I feel like you do not understand that the average American is not homeless.

If you are homeless you are not going to be a person who is spending >$40/mo for food and needing a cook book to make cheap food interesting to eat. You will just buy cheap food until you bootstrap yourself back to a house and a stable job.


Scroll up to where this comments thread says "You realize that there are people who are homeless", then talked about a box under a bridge, then not having a mailbox. Who did you think we were discussing?


>Who did you think we were discussing?

People who spend >$40 per month on food who live 40 miles away from the nearest library.




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