Jed wrote:- <<A "soup kitchen" sounds like something from the 1930s.>> Yes it was. They don't call them that now (officially...)
In Britain unemployment and "welfare" cases get money. Many think that this encourages those who are on welfare because they are lazy or alcoholics etc to throw the money away where they shouldn't i.e down the pub or the bookies. There is a fair bit of truth in this. Others say it would be patronising to give food aid directly to all because it tars the "deserving" welfare case with the same brush
