It may be outrageous nonsense, but we still do it. We periodically collect food for the Salvation Army Food Bank in Pembroke and Earl Curry and Barb McGonegal and Glenn Johnston see it gets delivered from each of our churches. The United Church Women make donations to 2 food banks in Pembroke. At Christmas time, offerings of toiletry items for Columbus House or the Women's Shelter had been taken. We quibble whether the statistics actually reflect reality or where is the poverty line anyways.
People can make do in a low income, they adapt.
We hear it said that poor people are to blame for their own predicament. They are authors of their own fate. They've made their bed, let them sleep in it. A few years ago, my sister and I were kind of distant from one another. Things seemed to be a little awkward between us.