By Frosty Wooldridge
As of November of 2012, a mind-numbing 47.7 million
Americans subsist on taxpayer-funded food stamps. One in seven Americans
cannot feed himself or herself with a job or work of any kind. What
constitutes the irony to this national tragedy? Answer: our U.S. Congress
imports 100,000 legal immigrants into the USA with green cards every 30
days.
No matter how much poverty and unemployment blacks, whites
and Hispanic Americans suffer– the leaders of this country continually pound
more humans into the mix without pause. At the same time, food banks go
belly up with bare shelves. Over 13 million American children live in destitute
poverty and cannot secure three square meals per day.
While Congress supports our enormous military spending into
the trillions of dollars and two 10 year long wars that devour (ed) money—it
fails to create jobs and feed our poorest. It fails the fundamental
rights of our own citizens to work and eat.
The gross statistics created by our U.S. Congress:
(Source: hubpages.com)
#1 According to one calculation, the number
of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of “Alaska,
Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa,
Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah,
Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.”
#2 In October 2008, 30.8 million Americans were on food
stamps. By August 2012 that number had risen to 47.1 million Americans.
#3 Right now, one out of every seven Americans is on
food stamps and one out of every four American children
is on food stamps.
#4 It is projected that half of all American
children will be on food stamps at least once before they turn 18
years of age.
#5 According to new numbers that were just released by
the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans living in poverty increased to
a new all-time record high of 49.7 million last year.
#6 The number of Americans living in poverty has
increased by about 6 million over the past four
years.
#7Today, about one out of every four workers
in the United States brings home wages that are at or below the federal poverty
level.
#8According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate for
children living in the United States is about 22 percent.
#9 Overall, approximately 57 percent of all children in the
United States are living in homes that are either considered to be either “low
income” or impoverished.
#10 In the United States today, close to 100 million Americans are
considered to be either “poor” or “near poor”.
#11 One university study estimates that child
poverty costs the U.S. economy 500 billion dollars each
year.
#12 Households that are led by a single mother have
a 31.6 percent poverty rate.
#13 In 2010, 42 percent of all single mothers in
the United States were on food stamps.
Once you research the numbers, you cannot help but look to
your own U.S. Senators and House reps and see failure, duplicity and
corruption. No excuses! How could men and women who are supposed to
represent American citizens continually leave American citizens in the grips of
poverty, joblessness and homelessness?
Some kind of moral, ethical and spiritual wrong grows in the
nation’s capitol all the way up to the president. American citizens
become its victims.
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