Today was food day and I sat down at a table with a lady who is retired that I have been noticing her weight loss for the last year.  She is very thin but there is an elegant quiet way she holds herself.  Another person asked her about her weight loss.  No she is not sick just struggling to make ends meet.  Her son has not had work in 3 years except day work odd jobs. She said she walked there today because she didn't have the gas money.  We took her home because it was not out of our way.  I went with someone else.  

She is like me living on SS.  Many of the people I see are old, disabled or young moms with babies. There is some real pain out there.

I found her very intelligent and eager to talk about the government policies. I was trying to rescue her from the lady on the other side of her that was quoting the bible to her. When I said I was going to vote for Sanders in the primary she got real excited and said she was too.  That moved us to Hillary and why we would only vote for her if she wins the primary.  We talked about many of the things in this article that I found after I came home.  The big thing was all the changes in the welfare that was done under Bill Clinton and how it is a disaster now for so many people who cannot find jobs.  The big worry is that for so many SS isn't enough to live on.  She was a prime case of that. 

They gave us some over ripe bananas so I made her some banana bread. I just doubled the recipe to use them up and had extra to share with her and the person I am riding with.  I will see her tomorrow at the other church because the dates have been moved around because of the holidays.