Comments on: Turn Your Anger Into Action

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:25:12 +0000

10-4 to a donation — a good thing.

By: Melyssa

Melyssa — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:46:48 +0000

Good job fundraising today! We had a fundraiser where I work this morning. It is inspiring to see our city pull together and supports the notion that private individuals and businesses will support the the needs of the poor without being subject to socialist taxation by force.

By: Shorebreak

Shorebreak — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:20:48 +0000

anonymous at July 31, 2007 04:15 PM :

I agree that the system should have been alarmed, but without a backup plan, what good would that have done for the food?

Maybe large foodbanks should work together to contract with local refrigeration truck companies for emergency support. An alarm could go to foodbank reps and to the contracting company so that immediate contact can be established and perishables could be placed in temporary storage until the problem is managed.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:15:31 +0000

this is clearly heinous and i am glad to see the community coming to the aid of such a fantastic organization. i do have a question. didn’t gleaner’s have these refrigeration units alarmed? since they contained perishable items, they should have had a temperature monitoring system that notified someone when it went out of range. i used to manage a facility with a temperature controlled warehouse and was paged any time it went out of range 24/7. since they had perishables of such value in it, i connot imagine it wasn’t. in any case, as a preventive action they need to have such a system added.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:27 +0000

Trustee food vouchers are issued to a specific grocery store with a specific purchasers name. The grocery stores must then submit the papertape receipt to the Trustee for payment. Those food vouchers are not fungible.

Gleaners serves all of Central Indiana with more than 100 townships covered in several counties. The majority of rural township trustees issue hardly any food vouchers whatsoever — that’s why private charity is needed when some local government wont do its mandated job.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:20:59 +0000

I just took a look at Gleaners Management and Board of Directors off their website. What’s the Executive Director of the Indiana Democratic Party doing on Gleaner’s Board?
For an organization that started in a garage they seem to be loaded with a lot of local politicos and business insiders now. I’m glad to see Browning is on the Board, times can get tough living at Crooked Stick.

Now if it’s the County Township Trustee’s job to make sure poor people have food vouchers then why are poor people in need of Gleaners in order to be able to eat? A poor starving person cannot just walk in to Gleaners and get a can of pork and beans to eat, they have to go to a “charity” that Gleaner’s supplies “donated” food to.

All of which begs the question as to why millions of taxpayer dollars got to the State’s Township Trustees to feed the poor thru “poor relief” and the poor still need to rely on food donated to Gleaners to eat?

Why not just have Gleaners be in charge of “poor relief” instead of Trustees? I suppose it’s because the shake houses will “buy” a food voucher but won’t take a can of beans to play their game. Given that scenario, I suppose a Gleaners IS needed.

By: Citizen46205

Citizen46205 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:40:47 +0000

The question about the respective roles of trustee poor relief vs Gleaners seems to be a good one to me.

For other bloggers, anger management might be more helpful than anger amplification.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:30:35 +0000

I’ve always thought it would be a good idea, instead of tearing down the RCA Dome when it’s finally closed, to turn it into a Thunderdome-type gladiator arena. The ticket sales would help pay off what’s left of the debt on the original Dome. We could put whoever is responsible for spoiling all that food in there with the woman who let her kid run around on the interstate with a diaper on a few months ago. I for one would pay to see that.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:55:33 +0000

Why not lock all the thugs in the new stadium, give them guns, and let their natures take care of the rest.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:14:16 +0000

Bob, there is a need because of things like the new COIT. I heard the reverend from the church on S. Meridian say that the 65% increase will hurt the people of his parish. IF they are making 25K the new tax will take antoher $125 from them - that means no shoes, clothes or FOOD for these kids. That is why we give. Be sure to thank Bart come election day!