Why Do Americans Let The Politicians Screw Us Over???
Its really sad that we as Americans let the Democrats and Republicans pull games on us and keep our minds off the really important issues that face us as Americans.
How can we not demand real solutions to the problems facing us as Americans.
You know I set and listened to the Republican debates and I wondered why they didn't talk about the real issues facing the American people. Think about this.
1. 15.000 plus people live under the bridges and in the streets of New Orleans Another 300.000 people can't come home because they have no where to come home to.
2. NAFTA helped to take our textile jobs and cities all across the American south look like Ghost Towns. Millions of American Jobs were lost and we need to stop any textile imports from coming into America. And it was Republicans and Democrats who stood by and allowed this. They should be tried for treason and crimes against the American people.
3. Our American senior citizens can't afford to buy their Prescription drugs for part of each year and the American Government doesn't care.
4. 13 Million plus American children go to bed hungry each night in the United States.
5. 47 Million Americans including 9 million children don't have health insurance.
6. Millions of pounds of food is thrown away in the dumpsters of American Grocery Stores and its a shame that all this food that could be used to feed hungry people is allowed to go to waste.
7. We continue to lock people up for marijuana and this is stupid. We should legalize marijuana and tax it heavily. Its stupid to keep Marijuana illegal. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and its never going to work for marijuana.
Those are some really big issues that face us as an American people but you don't see very much about any of them on the TV News Shows. Instead the Republicans and Democrats spin their bull shit news stories to try to keep your mind off the important issues.
We as an American people should not allow one dime of our money to be spent over seas as long as we have one hungry or homeless child here in America. We don't need TV Commercials about starving children over seas. We need TV shows about the hungry children here in America.
I can't believe that we allow the Republicans and the Democrats to spin their stories and keep the American people at each others throat. I think we need to throw all of them out of office and possibly even try some of them for treason and crimes against the American people.
Americans need to wake up and demand a end to the political bullshit. We need to demand that all money stay here in America and to hell with the rest of the world. America was once a great country and it could be again if enough Americans would stand up for America.
I want to thank you for taking the time to read my post and I hope you'll post your comments. Thanks much.I believe very much in a hand up. If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day. If you teach him to fish you feed him forever.
I would like to see a lot of the empty buildings across the USA turned into Homeless Centers where Homeless People could live and work raising their own food and really contributing to society.
I have been working for a number of years on two projects like this. One is more successful than the other. We are raising tilipia in old farm tanks and produce a lot of fish to feed people this way.
I would love to see it scaled up and all the old buildings and land across the USA used for projects like this.
But at the same time there are a lot of seniors and children here in America that must be provided food. They are unable to provide for their self.We see more seniors coming to ask for food now than we have ever had.
We just got through feeding red beans, rice, and cornbread to 773 people a few minutes ago. 22 of those were children. We gave the children chicken tenders. Across the USA tonight several million people showed up at soup kitchens, food sites, and churches to eat. But a lot of people will try to tell you we have no hungry Americans.
In downtown New Orleans tonight sandwiches were handed out to 4236 people. Of that number 112 were children. So yes there is Hunger in America. Plus this is the end of the month and food stamps are running out.
I have always said we need real solutions to the homeless and hunger problems here in the USA. Not more band aid programs. But there needs to be major changes to the current programs and politicians and local government officials need to be required to be responsible and not rip the money off and use it for their own special interest projects. We may be at the point where we need to bring local and national politicians to trial for their actions. A few politicians tried for crimes against their people would shake things up. Maybe if we shot a few and billed their families for the bullets things would change.
During the Regan Administration several million mental patients were turned out of the places where they lived and most ended up on the street. Those who survive today are part of the problem.
Food Boxes Being Filled In New Orleans For Hungry Americans
In New Orleans the problem is that their has never been enough done by the state and federal governments. The last figures I saw said that 300.000 more want to come home to New Orleans but they have no homes to come home to.
We need to stop sending tax dollars over seas. As long as we have one homeless or hungry person here in America not one dime should leave this country. No not one dime.
Food Being Distributed In New Orleans
I find it really sad when I see people post around the Internet that there are no hungry children in America. I see hundreds every day and see the numbers from thousands in about 7 American cities. I see little kids hug a can of green beans and I turn my head to keep from crying. I teach many mothers every week how to make fry bread out of flour and spread it with peanut butter to feed their children. How we can continue to play political spin games when we have hungry Americans I don't know.
With access like this I beg to differ about the corporate control. Remember it only takes a few who are in the game to sway a vote. The real trouble lies in that they contribute to both sides and care little of the outcome as either side is already bought. I agree that teachers unions and such have a powerful lobby but the corporations win hands down.
- Brenda Durhamposted 12 years ago
0 @Crazyhorsesghost - You are absolutely right that the left-right political circus is irrelevant and a distraction from what is really going on - the destruction of society for the many by a few. Because society is certainly being destroyed. When people are either without work or forced to work all the hours merely to survive, they have neither the time nor the means to interact socially, culturally or creatively with each other. And this is being forced on the majority by the greed of a small coterie of bankers and corporate bosses with the total acquiescence and even connivance of the career politicians.
I don't agree with you that US should ignore the rest of the world, but it should lead by example, by first addressing its own poverty and homelessness and rebuilding its strength from the ground up. Then the world would take you seriously again.
BTW - the first hub page I ever read was by you, four years ago. You had about 25 fans at the time. I can't remember your topic, but I remember enjoying it and opening my own account as a result. So thanks
Who is John Galt?
I could not help it, I just saw the movie a couple of days ago...It was a good movie "Atlas Shrugged Part 1"
- Old Poolmanposted 12 years ago0
I will never forget what was done to the Native American People.
The ideal to stop working would send a strong message but you would never get the average American to go along. The real reason for this is that two weeks of lost income would put the average American on the street.
The Republican / Democrat political games will continue until the American people refuse to keep playing the games.
We need radical change in this country. We need a third party that would be for the American people and America first.
Not one dime should go out of this country to any country as long as we have one hungry or homeless American. Not one dime.
I spent much of yesterday raiding food from dumpsters to feed hungry Americans
over the next few days. Its really sad that this is necessary in one of the richest countries in the world but it is.
Food Raided From One Dumpster
The food being served here was raided from dumpsters. With out this food your fellow Americans would go hungry. $200.00 in Food Stamps will not feed a human being adequate food for a month. Most Americans get less than $200.00. Some Seniors , yes American Seniors get $10 - $50 a month. Try eating on that.
Why is no politician screaming about starving and hungry Americans. Yes they do exist.
But they keep the average Democrat and Republican fussing with each other through their political games. This should not be allowed to continue.
Thank C.H.G.You can live on $200.00 of groceries a month. But you will have to be very frugal though. You will have to eat noodles, beans, starches, etc. If you have no home to cook in its almost impossible.
There is fraud in food stamps. In some cities there is a lot of fraud in food stamps. But not all fraud is committed by the person receiving the food stamps. I know of and have reported stores for selling hot food, gas, and tobacco products. It is wide spread and I know I have reported at least 50 stores and many of them have lost their food stamp privileges. Some people sell their food stamps for half price to get cash to buy drugs. It happens. Believe me I have seen it. And see it almost every day.
But I see people every day who live on the street and have lived on the street so long they have give up on life and no longer try to get food stamps or any other type of help. I see people( Seniors ) turned down because they have a grave site paid for. I see all kinds of horrors. I see lots of senior Americans who draw $460.00 a month and pay $350.00 for rent, $150 - $200 for utilities and they have other expenses. I know of many seniors who get $10 to $50 in food stamps a month. How can you live on that. How. I see more Seniors today at our food pantries than I have ever seen.
According to U.S. Government estimates 49 million Americans live at or below the poverty level. 13 million children are hungry or borderline hungry tonight. But no politician from either party is screaming about this issue. WHY!!!!!!!!!!!
Every year right here in America an average of 8000 Americans die because they can't pay for medical care or prescription drugs. How can there be any justice in this.
Several key issues face Americans every day. The main issues are.
1.Hunger in America
2.Homeless in America
3.The Health Care Program in this country does not work
4. Millions of people lost their jobs because of NAFTA and politicians from both parties pushed this through
But you don't see politicians screaming about those issues. No not one. I say throw all the bums out of office.
If tomorrow we had one term or two term limits on the Congress and Senate and we outlawed any lobbying in Washington D.C. we would see a whole new world in the the USA. If we passed a law that not one dime could go out of this country if we had one homeless or hungry American you would see a different world. If we outlawed textile imports or even said that 75 percent of all textile products must be made in the USA we would create jobs and maybe just maybe the American dream would be alive again.
Its really sad the things that the Republicans and Democrats have done to the USA in the last 50 years or so. I don't see how either party can get any American to support them. But they play their little spin games and use smoke and mirrors to lead the average American around and keep your mind off the real issues. God Bless Everyone And Merry Christmas.
Never Forget What Was Done To The Native American People
C.H.G.
Hunger In America By The Numbers
Last year, 17.2 million households in the United States were food insecure, the highest level on record, as the Great Recession continued to wreak havoc on families across the country. Of those 17.2 million households, 3.9 million included children. On Thanksgiving Day, here’s a look at hunger in America, as millions of Americans struggle to get enough to eat in the wake of the economic crisis:
17.2 million: The number of households that were food insecure in 2010, the highest number on record. They make up 14.5 percent of households, or approximately one in seven.
48.8 million: People who lived in food insecure households last year.
3.9 million: The number of households with children that were food insecure last year. In 1 percent of households with children, “one or more of the children experienced the most severe food-insecure condition measured by USDA, very low food security, in which meals were irregular and food intake was below levels considered adequate by caregivers.”
6.4 million: Households that experienced very low food security last year, meaning “normal eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and food intake was reduced at times during the year because they had insufficient money or other resources for food.”
55: The percentage of food-insecure households that participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs (SNAP, WIC, School lunch program).
19.4: The percentage of food insecure households in Mississippi, which had the highest rate in the nation last year.
3.6 percent: The amount by which food prices increased last year.
30 percent: The amount by which food insecurity grew during the Great Recession.
44: The percentage increase in households using food pantries between 2007 and 2009. That is 44 percent of all Americans asked for food assistance.
20 million: The number of children who benefit from free and reduced lunch per day.
10.5 million: The number of eligible children who don’t receive their free and reduced lunch benefits.
$167.5 billion: The amount that the U.S. lost in 2010 due to hunger (lost educational attainment + avoidable illness + charitable giving to fight hunger). This doesn’t take into account the $94 billion cost of SNAP and other food programs.
8: The number of states (FL, TX, CA, IL, NC, NY, OH, PA, GA) where the annual cost of hunger exceeds $6 billion.
9: By U.S. Government Estimates 13 Million Children go to bed hungry each night right here in America.
Last year, “nearly half of the households seeking emergency food assistance reported having to choose between paying for utilities or heating fuel and food. Nearly 40 percent said they had to choose between paying for rent or a mortgage and food.” This Thanksgiving, as you sit down to enjoy a meal with family and friends, please spare a thought for those who, due to the country’s continuing economic woes, may not have enough to eat.
And if you can get the average Republican or Democrat to discuss those numbers with you let me know. You only see organizations begging for hungry American children around Christmas and Thanksgiving. Or that red kettle they ring at Christmas. I could tell you some horror stories about those people but I won't. Hint, a lot of that money ends up being used for administration fees.
America must wake up and stop playing the politicians political spin games. Maybe just maybe we are at a point when we need a revolution. I wonder what our founding fathers or even those Kennedy Brothers would say about the mess we find our-self in. They might even call for revolution. I support Occupy Wal Street. I just think more Americans should get involved. It would be nice to see the local police refuse to follow the orders to clean out parks. But that would be a perfect world wouldn't it. Merry Christmas everyone. And may God Bless You and Yours. May you never have to take your children to a Soup Kitchen or visit a Food Pantry for food. Peace.The 'they' people are voted in by the 'you's' and me's though,so whats the answer?
Not an easy one, to change the heart of man(kind)- ahorsebackposted 9 years ago0
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