Child Poverty Rises while Corporate America Booms with profit and subsidies.

[DhhD]

There are16.4 Million American children living in poverty. That is nearly one quarter (22.6%) of all children living in America today. How will they be able to withstand a food stamp cut?

http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/americas-greatest-shame-child-poverty-rises-and-food-stamps-cut-while-billionaires?akid=11103.295576.T5xvhM&rd=1&src=newsletter918440&t=3

Food Banks and food drives will become an everyday occurance.

[Lifelong Protester]

1. What kind of country

does not take better care of its children and elderly? This is another embarassment for our country. Lot's of things that repubs seem to want make me angry, but cutting food from the poor is the topper.

How about one less piece of unwanted military hardware? There has to be savings in that budget.

[KansDem]

4. We can't do that!!!

How about one less piece of unwanted military hardware?

What about the Soviets? Red Chinese? North Vietnamese? Cuba? Iraq? North Korea? Pakistan and/or Iran?

[Lifelong Protester]

8. Exactly! Always some bogeyman out there, right?

wasn't it in Dr. Strangelove that the George C. Scott character was worried about the 'ruskies' having an advantage in underground caves? He didn't want the US-Soviets to have a 'cave gap'?

I'm old enough to have grown up with constant talk of the 'missile gap'. It never goes away, whatever the 'gap', the MIC will find and try to exploit it.

[KansDem]

9. "Always some bogeyman out there, right?"

I've noticed the same thing. First there was the "anarchist" in the form of workers' rights and union organizing who became the bogeyman from roughly the late 19th century to the mid-20th, then there was the "communist" from WWII until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and finally the "terrorist" from the first WTC bombing in 1993 until now.

And the oligarchs and plutocrats used these bogeymen to hoard wealth and power...

[pscot]

12. Don't forget 200 years of genocide

before that.

[KansDem]

13. True, thanks for the reminder...

From "Hair" (1979)

The draft is white people sending black people to make war on the yellow people to defend the land they stole from the red people!

I recall a quote that included "brown people" (Latinos) but don't remember its source...

[jsr]

14. We need more money for war and for spying on citizens.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. And will the people who caused this and benefit from it ever feel any shame?

Of course not. They are so isolated and insulated from this reality that they don't accept it as a byproduct of their greed.

BTW, food banks and food drives have already become everyday occurrences.

[mother earth]

3. One judges a society by how it cares for its most vulnerable, transparency...has arrived. nt

[leftstreet]

5. DURec

[Cryptoad]

6. The GOP:

,,,,,,,punishing the working poor so the !% and Corps can keep their tax loopholes!

[L0oniX]

7. If corporations HAD to work harder there wouldn't be this problem.

Our government has made it easy for them. Our government is to blame for this. Back in the 50's corporations/companies had to pay more taxes and had to work harder and hire more people.

[gopiscrap]

10. as a nation our priorities are so fucked up

it's gonna take a revolution

[jtuck004]

11. We pay more to feed prisoners in jail, people who may have hurt others, than

we do to feed a family whose parent is has done nothing but work, or try to, every day. 50+ percent of all fast food workers need public assistance just to make it.

There are 49 million people on food stamps, a number that has grown without being addressed in the past 10 years, while we made sure banks were able to pay nice bonuses. That number is likely to increase after Jan 1, because the emergency unemployment benefits end then, here

So what's a strategy? I wonder what the impact would be of setting up food kitchens and tents on federal property (which would probably get people arrested - and tell anyone who was hungry to show up - there would be hundreds of thousands...might make for an interesting visual come Thanksgiving.

Would the nation look at this and see it as further confirmation that "those people" are defective and deserving of their hardship? Or could publicity be managed in such a way that it would teach that our priorities are screwed up?