Republicans to America: Poor Kids Don't Have Enough Pain

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 08:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHhZmPtLa0M   Posted on YouTube: March 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: SamSeder Views on YouTube: 200   Posted on DU: March 08, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 1709

 
SamSeder on Mar 8, 2011

This weekend, "60 Minutes" aired a special on the record number of children falling into poverty due to the recent recession.

Taking a closer look at Florida in particular, the segment focuses on several families who never thought they would be homeless, and the children who perhaps suffer the greatest burden, growing up without a stable dwelling and sometimes going hungry.

Several children are interviewed. Two of the kids describe sneaking into a Wal-Mart bathroom to use the sinks and to clean up before school. One child says she feels that her family's poverty is her fault because her parents have to support her.

Some kids are living with neighbors, some in cars and vans, others in motels. Near Orlando, on the road to Disney World, there are 67 motels that house about 500 homeless kids.

According to CBS and the U.S. Census, 14 million children throughout the nation lived in poverty before the recession hit, and now that number is 16 million -- a 2-million person rise in two years. via -- Lori Kozlowski L.A. Times
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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. As it ever was.

[Loki]

2. Everyone needs to watch this.

I remember the Reagan years and I was working in an inner city hospital and the homeless situation was epidemic. People would come into the day room and sleep on the chairs, families were living out of their cars. It's happening again and the republican ideology is no different now than it was during those years. They make me sick, they make me angry, and I don't like the kind of anger that I'm feeling. I want to turn this anger into action and make this country better and make sure no child will go to sleep hungry in the United States again.

[cutlassmama]

3. this country is not what it used to be

[Mybrokenchains]

4. Dammit...

How are we still fighting illegitimate wars when we have children going through this in our own country?, its a travesty pure and simple...
I'm reasonably sure if you asked everyday Americans what they'd rather do, bomb and murder foreigners, or help our own homeless and hungry children.........we'd help the kids.
More evidence the Government doesn't work for or listen to the will of the People.
Throw it on the pile

[Chris_Texas]

5. wow... You know what, we have got to do something.

Actually, fuck that. I have got to do something. And I will.

[spicegal]

6. I watched this segment of 60 minutes and got my 18 y/o

daughter to watch it as well. It was heartbreaking and choked me up. My daughter has heard some of her high school classmates make disparaging comments about the unemployed, as if it's their own fault and they're just mooching off the govt. Wonder where these kids get that from (parents obviously). It upsets my daughter, so thought at least watching that segment would help give her something concrete to fight back with when they spout off that kind of right wing nonsense.

[neobeetle]

7. ..........................

just unbearable......
:(

[WhoIsNumberNone]

8. Once the caste system is fully in place in this country-

-these Republiscum will be better able to sleep at night.

In the meantime, they can rest their heads on this:

[kaffy4x4]

9. I can't Breathe

What part of the country was the 60 minutes filmed? On the east coast every church on every block has some kind of meal being served. Many churches have food banks, free to anyone who signs up for them. For Christ Sake, were are the people in this community that they aren't helping? Bake some dam muffins and hand them out at the school as the kids arrive in the morning..we do. No one needs to go hungry in this country, no one. There are food stamps available for people in poverty and easy enough to sign up for at any Social Service office. Talk about stretching a meal at work, we all know ways to do it. Find a family in need and "adopt" them.

And for God sake, in your spare time, get people involved in our government and stop this fascist turn over of our country. Tweet,call and write on your facebook pages...reach the young people...this is how they communicate. Big money can't stop the people, history shows us that, recent history as well as by gone days. I want to breathe again. I want my tears to dry up, I want to laugh and sing again. It's time.

[Charleston Chew]

10. question

Did you even watch the video or read the text?

[Charleston Chew]

11. Hard times generation: homeless kids

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CBSNewsOnline on Mar 6, 2011

For some children, socializing and learning are being cruelly complicated by homelessness, as Scott Pelley reports from Florida, where school buses now stop at motels for children who've lost their homes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x561115
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[Charleston Chew]

12. Making Fortune on Poverty: JP Morgan's Big Food Stamp Business

While most Americans are struggling hard to overcome the hardships of the recession, the profits of national banks continue to rise. JP Morgan is among those cashing-in ... and it's a contract to process food stamp payments that's helping it on its way. RT's Maria Portnaya found out how the rich benefit off the back of the poor.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x555040

[Charleston Chew]

13. Food Prices Rise to 'Dangerous Levels'

If the saying is - 'you are what you eat' - what are you if you have nothing to eat? That may be the predicament facing tens of millions of people in developing countries after a 15 percent food price index increase - a rise the World Bank says hits 'dangerous levels'.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x556286

[Charleston Chew]

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