Yes! With 1-in-5 Americans are economically insecure – they can’t afford to pay for the essentials to live.
96%
No! Poor people will figure out how to do get both heat & food.
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It continues to amaze me that the tea party wrap themselves in the cloak of Christianity when they cut aid to the poor, complain about the poor not paying more taxes, I wonder how or where they expect the poor to come up with more money. Do they want to bring back indentured servitude? Bring back Debtor’s prisons? Do they want the world that Dickens described in “A Christmas Carol” Have they forgotten Matthew 25:31-46? Or have they taken Jonathan Swifts “A Modest Proposal“.
I am truly saddened especially at this time of year that there is such a lack of charity for our fellow man. Why are we not asking how do we improve conditions for everyone? Why are we praising personal greed at the expense of the well being of others?
We have just past Thanksgiving and wonder didn’t folks appreciate the gifts they have received to be free from fear because of our EMT’s, Police, Fireman, Soldiers, and Sailors who protect our freedom and make us safe at home; the gift of knowledge coming from our teachers, schools, and universities; the gift of the ability to freely move across the country because of roads, and traffic control system both on air, land, and sea. I am thankful for all the gifts that I receive because I am fortunately to be born in this country.
Yes, I still grumble when I fill up at the pump and pay gas tax, I still grumble about the sales tax on everything I buy, and I grumble when I look at pay statement and see how much money doesn’t reach my bank, and grumble about all the other taxes and fees that I pay but.
At the end of the day even on April 15th, I am thankful for things that this country provides. For those that think the poor have too much please go to your nearest Indian Reservation, villages and towns in the Appalachians, the bayous of Louisiana. Go into the homes and tell the people what piece of food, or mattress they can do without. Also help them understand why their children must have a sub standard education since they can’t afford a computer or the internet so they are always behind their class mates who have those things.
Before Cal Person, Katshores, Valperson and all the other fox bloggers who restate the current fox talking points. Please let me know when you have visited with the poor and what you have done besides paying your taxes.
I am one of those poor on a fixed income..... In the past the electric bills for my heating were very low but this winter with the state of WA haveing to cut the budget (on the backs of the poor as always) to balance it. I will have to pay more for electric and hope the food bank has meat or something that can help with the food situation..... if not I skip nutrition or even a whole meal.
Apparently the God the Tea Party worships hasn't read all of their Bible yet. We hear every year about someone freezing to death in their homes. Usually it's an old person living alone and the utility co cut off their heat. I think the last time I heard about that whichever state that was in passed a law that forbid utility co's from doing that. I'm sure we don't hear about a lot of incidents like that. I remember my gas bill being about $6.00 a mo, which didn't include electricity. Of course I'm going back to the late 70's or early 80's and I did live in So. Calif. Had a real shock the first winter I lived in CO in 1983-84 and I had a bill that was well over $200.00. I've had a few like that in AR too and I've been here 7 years. And this is the South, although we can get some cold months like a few years ago when it was in the teens.
If any of you can I highly suggest watching a documentary movie called The Corporation. I've been watching a lot of documentaries lately and this one pretty much covers the whole history of corporations in all things, even during WWII and the Nazi's. I thought I knew a lot, but when you watch this one you'll find out we haven't even scratched the surface yet.
Agreed ' Jesus said heal the sick ' Feed the hungry Not cut their funding ! Many of these Tea Bagger Evangelical Christians are self rightious p honies
US has no where to go but up from the abyss we were pushed into I pray and work towards bearing the GOP in 2012 They are toxic to USA Our Jobs People Education- old sick - disabled. Anyone Not wealthy enough to donate tons of money aka bribes
The Corporation is an excellent movie. I enthusiastically second your recommendation.
i watch the picture all u can say to yoit guest is hial hitler you DUMB S O B
A lot of Republicans are blinded to what they are doing and they don't know how they look to most the American People.
Perhaps they want the poor to just go and die so that they won't have to help them in anyway. Or that they should "Go get a job" even if very old. Simply put, they just don't care. These Sociopaths don't even realize that they are that way. They don't know how they look when they say these things. I have known rich people who are the same, they have NO CLUE. But they think that they do, and that they "care." The lack of empathy is so sad.