More Needy Stand in Line for Bread

[Eldritch]

The downturn is forcing more people into bread lines in Finland.The needy often include youth, immigrants and the unemployed.

The bread line in the Kallio district of Helsinki has been shorter than usual this April. But that's only because recent labour action in the food industry has resulted in sparse food supplies.

On an average food distribution day, the bread queue can stretch for blocks. Like the recession of the 1990s, this current economic crisis has seen a rush of needy.

Jouko Karjalainen, a researcher at the National Institute for Health and Welfare, estimates that the number of people queuing for food in the capital region has risen by several hundred a week since the downturn. He adds that food banks run by churches have upped their handouts by about 25 percent.

Bread lines rely on the generosity of grocery stores. However, churches mainly get help from the EU. This year, Finland's churches will distribute nearly three million kilos of EU-funded food. That's 500,000 more kilos than last year.

The economic downturn has hit immigrants particularly hard. They make up around half of those queuing for bread. Young people are also more often seen waiting for food.

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[tired]

We in Brisbane also have food handout for the poor. You would surprised how many people who look well off turn up for free food

[Cato]

We in Brisbane also have food handout for the poor. You would surprised how many people who look well off turn up for free food

Freegan bums.

[Eldritch]

We in Brisbane also have food handout for the poor. You would surprised how many people who look well off turn up for free food

You can't really tell a person's circumstances based on they way they look though. They might have fallen on hard times just recently.

[Agrippa]

You can't really tell a person's circumstances based on they way they look though. They might have fallen on hard times just recently.

Or trying to keep up a certain standard for not fully going down. Thats really no reason to judge anyone.

This is just the ugly face of the Neoliberal policy and the rule of the Plutocratic Oligarchy.

I just hope the people get it in time and dont fall for the false promises of the plutocratic menials, which will tell the people that for a better social future, they have to agree on even more economic Liberalism, wage cuts, destruction of the health care and social system, finally even larger and more powerful financial structures and control over the people.

Terrorism and economic deterioration, both caused by the very same system and plutocrats being abused for people to accept laws which are even more against their interests as those we have already.

That are just the first symptoms, it will get much worse, because the financial system comes close to a saturation point and a new finanancial-interest rate cycle soon, when that happens, a lot of things will change. First for the worst in any case, then we will see, depends on how the people react and how clever the plutocrats and their menials will be.