Dear Congress: Please Watch and Read with Open Heart

[roxiejules]

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"More than 15 million Americans are unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities, and 38 million people are receiving food stamps, more than at any time in the program's almost 50-year history. Evidence of rising economic hardship is ample. There's one commonly used standard for measuring it: the U.S. Census Bureau's poverty rate.

When Census publishes new numbers for 2009 in September, experts predict they'll show a steep rise in the poverty rate. One independent researcher estimates the data will show the biggest year-to-year increase in recorded history.

According to Richard Bavier, a former analyst for the federal Office of Management and Budget, already available data about employment rates, wages and food stamp enrollment suggest that an additional 5.7 million people were officially poor in 2009. That would bring the total number of people with incomes below the federal poverty threshold to more than 45 million. The poverty rate, Bavier expects, will hit 15 percent - up from 13.2 percent in 2008, when the Great Recession first started to take its toll."

http://www.kentucky.com/2010/07/11/1344748/more-poverty-by-any-measure.html#ixzz0tQruqon8



DEAR CONGRESS: PLEASE HELP THE UNEMPLOYED AND POOR IN THIS COUNTRY

People in poverty experience not only a lack of income or material possessions, but a lack of such things as life choices, physical and
emotional security, stable relationships and self-esteem. Poverty is teaching millions of Americans that they are not
valued, that failure is to be expected, and that hope is futile.

[The Wielding Truth]

1. Why do the Republicans enjoy kicking someone when they are down

and siding with the winner even when they have won by destroying innocent creatures and people.

I just don't get it.... When will they see that what goes around comes around?

[roxiejules]

2. I hope they will open their eyes....

Our Democracy can only work if we act with nobility, we are each other's keepers.