Breadlines

When the US economy totally collapses, and the wealthy laugh at the unemployed in breadlines, then Americans might rise up in revolution?! ❋ Unknown (2006)

He will have us all losing our jobs and standing in breadlines. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the housing collapse has turned into a financial crisis, and the financial crisis into an economic calamity, the government has tried furiously to keep the country free of breadlines and trash-can fires. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! ❋ David O. Russell (2011)

The "Countdown" host railed against the movement, using an analogy to call their candidates, "a group of unqualified, unstable individuals who will do what they are told, in exchange for money and power, and march this nation as far backward as they can get, backward to Jim Crow, or backward to the breadlines of the '30s, or backward to hanging union organizers, or backward to the Trusts and the Robber Barons." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

In fact, despite the breadlines and the soup kitchens and the Bonus Army, the population emerged from the Depression healthier than ever, thanks largely to government aid and advances in the then-new science of nutrition; the recruits of the Second World War were in every way more fit than the recruits of the First. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Invest in the rights to photographs of breadlines. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

When I was growing up, he spoke often of his memories of breadlines, tent cities, and government-issued clothing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thanks to you and your democratic party, I'm sure there'll be socialized medicine in our hospitals and breadlines down mainstreet within ten years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We are in the highest levels of the power and in the breadlines and soup kitchens. ❋ Kergan Edwards-Stout (2012)

on the breadline said of a person or people: having [hardly] enough food and money to live on; living at [subsistence] [level]. ❋ Champion06 (2008)

“Yo man, I haven’t seen John at the open [mics]. Where’s he been? “You didn’t hear? John got a Breadline [Gig]. He’s in [the big time] now!” ❋ I’m Patman (2023)

Interpretation 1 The ScorpioN responding to someone on [Megadeth's] website: "[Breadline]" is about when Dave Mustaine and David [Ellefson] used to have to drive downtown everyday past the soup kitchens and they would see the derelicts out in the street with their shopping carts. They realized that if they didn’t make it soon they would be one of them because they were running out of options and they had no other choice but to make it or die trying. Interpretation 2 Guy 1: ...so the average poverty threshold for a family of four was $26,172 in 2019, $25,[701] in 2018, $24,[257] in 2015, $22,[314] in 2010, $17,[603] in 2000, and $13,[359] in 1990. Guy 2: That much in the [breadline] over the years? Guy 1: Yeah. Interpretation 3 Recently, I donated to Breadline Africa. I'm praying all those folks will live better with what the [NPO] hopes for. Interpretation 4 Guy 1: It's kinda sad seeing all those people at the soup kitchen... Guy 2: Yeah, and even with the breadline, I don't even think no one will starve without- Guy 2's [scene chick]: Ugh...can we go to the mall now? I really gotta get that sexy bracelet at Hot T- Guy 1, pissed: CAN'T YOU SEE THOSE POOR PEOPLE?! Guy 2, whispering: Let's just go. You know how bitchy she can be... Interpretation 5 Well...you probably know what [rationing] has to do with the word "breadline"...I don't, sadly. ❋ 7568ino (2023)