The Government’s Pantry Isn’t Bare — the People’s Pantry Is Bare
At a moment where tens of millions of families will require the government to help fill their pantries and medicine cabinets, this is not the moment to thrust our country into another age of austerity. Resist the call of fiscal hawks everywhere.
Jimmy Trittenden checks on what free food is available in a community refrigerator setup in front of the Roots Collective store on August 21, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
Across the country economic calamity has caused food banks to run low on supplies, unable to keep up with demand for families in need.
America’s pantries are literally empty, but that’s not what the head of Joe Biden’s transition team, Ted Kaufman was referring to when he told the Wall Street Journal last week, “When we get in, the pantry is going to be bare.”
He went on to explain, “When you see what Trump’s done to the deficit . . . forget about Covid-19, all the deficits that he built with the incredible tax cuts. So we’re going to be limited.”
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