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Posted By calitennflo 1 week ago in Health & FitnessThe number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a government report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children.
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deathray1 week ago
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 week ago
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Bush was good at making the downtrodden a "non"statistic.
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Reagan closed a record number of institutions for the mentally ill,
but he said he was "liberating" them..
Since the post-Vietnam era our soldiers returning home to no home
and the systematic "back turning" on multiple blocs of our needy
continues to grow at unprecedented rates.
This country has serious issues.
They are logically progressing into increased violent crime, domestic violence,
and multiple shootings/suicides.
These are ALL bi-products of a broken system and it is screaming at us.
Why can't we hear them?
It is already reaching the suburbs, and THAT should get their attention.
We need a plan that accommodates infrastructure and demographics for 300 million people and an annual immigration
rate of 2-3 million (legally). Clinging to the old system of "if you don't see it, then it isn't there
is going to explode in our faces...
We need enough schools for our children, prisons for our criminals, roads and bridges for our transportation needs and energy for our functionality.
More schools means more teachers, more prisons means more police, and certainly MORE
border protection, because anyone with more than 1/2 a functioning brain knows that if there's a domestic terrorist threat, it will come from those who enter illegally..
This country can only sustain itself if we learn from other "immortal" empires and
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hyperbola1 week ago
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Nothing new. Just more class warfare in America.
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UN Investigator Accuses US of Shameful Neglect of Homeless
A United Nations special investigator who was blocked from visiting the US by the Bush administration has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into rescuing banks and big business while treating as "invisible" a deepening homeless crisis....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/12/united...
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donald511 week ago
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Why the well know science fiction writer, Philip Wylie wrote the book "A Generation of Vipers" to indict American society in 1941 - and under repugs its only gotten worse!
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Repugs, the party of "of, for and by the Corporation!".... as opposed to the PEOPLE! -
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Natureboy6 days, 12 hours ago
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If things continue along their present course, there will come a time when the homeless and the hungry turn their gaze upon the filthy rich and realize, a life of leisure and fine dining probably makes them tender and tasty.
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OK, I don't really expect cannibalism so much as murder and theft, but it may well come.
In days gone by, the elites understood that they were few and we were many and it was in their interests to insure things didn't get too rocky for the lower classes.
But now the elites are screwing up, big time. And if the sleeping giant that is the working class awakens, the elites will find themselves in a sh!tload of trouble
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GWHayduke1 week ago
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Reading something like this makes me feel like less of a tool for giving the guy on the street corner with the sign a dollar or two.
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Sometimes I feel gullible, then I tell myself its just a few bucks.
Am I contributing to the problem?
Probably. But if my buck does lead to a crappy nutritionless hamburger, at least the guy's got some energy to keep warm.
Once my grade school aged son asked in somewhat of a shocked tone what I was doing giving that guy money?
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quicksilver06021 week ago
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"Am I contributing to the problem?"
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As for particular individuals - perhaps sometimes but how can you know? I fully support your decision to give each the benefit of the doubt. - because in terms of the Big Picture, compassion for others is a wonderful and worthwhile practice.
Your son has a good teacher, GW ;)
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donald511 week ago
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deathray1 week ago
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i'm really hoping, as i said, that we'd avoid partisanship, and deal with the whole thing as americans, and human beings. yes, as i said, policy has contributed to hunger, but at least we know the things we have to do to move things forward. -
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ForrestPhelps6 days, 20 hours ago
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If by "repug" you mean: short for repugnant individuals, then I agree.
if short for "Republican" than you indicting some of my family, most of whom have given much love, time, effort, and even money to those in need.
I'm not trying to pick on you donald51 - I genuinely like most of the points you make in your comments, even when I don't agree with it exactly. I know, as an avowed liberal, I hate when others paint ALL liberals with a broad brush, so every now and again, I try to gently suggest that ANY broad stereotyping is not really reflective of reality, not really fair, and generally a bad idea (not raisins in chocolate chip cookies bad - but right up there, if you know what I mean).
Sorry to be preachy and all, but this issue goes beyond any political party or creed - although there are far too many politicians who lack true compassion and values - on both sides.
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ADAGUY6 days, 23 hours ago
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I have given to society ever since I was old enough to know how. Even as a teenager, I would commonly change a flat tire for a tourist, and refuse to accept payment for it.
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To this day I am constantly trying to help those with less opportunities than I have had.
One individual, a 40 year old man has developed diverticulitis, and his wife has seizures as well as a heart condition. He works at a local saw mill 40 hrs a week, then works another 15 to 20 hours doing odd jobs to put his two teenage kids through school.
He is currently paying $180 a week just for his wife's medication, and has no insurance whatsoever, because his employer refuses to take part in any insurance plan.
He earns $9.50 an hour.
Three years ago, he went to work for me. At that time his former employer was paying him 7.50 an hour, and once this guy left the mill, the employer began to realize just how hard he was working.
He currently earns $9.50 an hour.
Now tell me he is not a victim of the current system we live in!
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canadianrancher576 days, 21 hours ago
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There is just way to much greed in both of our countries although I guess it is ourselves that are to blame, I'm not saying this as an insult but when I look back at school pictures from the 60's I don't see the differences that I see now days, most people wore the same types of clothes as their neighbors did, there was not a great difference in wages between the upper class and the guys on the bottoms, heck even sports stars were not well paid, but today we have people who produce very little an d these people are taking huge sums of money out of the system. There is also a type of greed that is not so obvious and that is the greed of large corporations and even if they do not pay their executives large wages they have monopolized certain segments of business to make it difficult on all. To give you an idea of how mixed up the system is I am selling slaughter cattle at 1976 prices and yet the consumer cannot afford beef because it is so expensive. Last spring I sold sides of beef for $1.99 a lb and that was cut, wrapped and frozen and government inspected. If I can do something like this why can't the large retailers, the reason is they are extremely greedy, they are greedy to the point of making people go hungry.
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deathray6 days, 11 hours ago
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there is much to be said for capitalism, in my opinion, but that should be tempered by both compassion and empathy, sentiments not usually embraced by our society these days, unfortunately. there are social benefits to both, both temporally and spiritually.
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mesodude6 days, 10 hours ago
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"The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a government report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children."
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--How can that be (when we were told over and over again that Bush's economy was the most wonderful thing in the world and everyone should be happy just to be alive)? -
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jumpmaster6 days, 8 hours ago
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You would be surprised at how many people drive up to the food bank (before, during, and after Bush)in new cars and SUV's. I know that does not represent everyone but I sure see a lot of them. Let's see. Hmmm, what is the lease payment on a new Tahoe, say about $700 per month? That buys a lot of Cheeze Whiz.
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Natureboy6 days, 6 hours ago
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49 million is about the same number as that of the uninsured. Roughly one sixth of the population.
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That's enough. Give 'em all guns and point them towards Washington, DC. It's about the only real formula for "change we can believe in."
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