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Report: Hunger, Homelessness Rise Sharply in U.S.
Reuters ^
| 12/12/2001 3:32 pm ET
| By Alan Elsner, National Correspondent
Posted on 12/12/2001 12:20:38 PM PST by mdittmar
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The left is so predictable.
Bring out the same old stories,dust them off whenever a Republican gets the WhiteHouse.
"The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious."
Joseph Goebbels
Adolf Hitler's Nazi Propaganda Minister
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posted on
12/12/2001 12:20:39 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
This is as expected as every time a republican is president these figures seem to rise/are inflated.
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posted on
12/12/2001 12:23:55 PM PST
by
boomop1
To: mdittmar
Heck, I'm starving! Anyone for surf and turf?
To: mdittmar
Bah! I'm always broke at Christmastime. Too much money spent on presents and more Christmas lights!
And of course, the obligatory 'Toys for Tots' load. Gives me an excuse to buy toys.
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posted on
12/12/2001 12:30:14 PM PST
by
AzSteven
To: mdittmar
Well the "Bush ignores aides epidemic" stories must be next. Then there'll be the "Bush loves the rich hates the poor" and "Bush is going to start WWIII" stories. Just reflect on the Reagan years and you'll be one step ahead of the marxists.
To: mdittmar
It was even more amazing that the poor and hungry completely disappeared the entire time Clinton was in the White House. We never heard anything about them. All was apparently hunky-dory, poverty-wise. The day he left (blessed day that was), the unfortunates sprang back into view, thanks to the media and their fellow-traveling organizations. I think NPR was one of the first to report that the poor, the hungry and the homeless were still with us. I live in Washington, D.C. There are two whole phonebook page's worth of organizations here that house, feed, clothe, etc. the poor. I continue to give them generous cash donations, as well has having donated a small fortune in clothing, winter coats, gloves boots, whatever. So do my friends. You have to be a complete idiot (or a drugs-and-alcohol addled parasite) to go hungry, ill clad or homeless here. The whining and the claims of victimhood never end.AdR
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posted on
12/12/2001 12:40:43 PM PST
by
3AngelaD
To: mdittmar
Evidently, the leftist food stamp and welfare programs are dismal failures.
To: mdittmar
Feed the Homeless to the Hungry.
To: DoughtyOne
Bump your analysis.
Those Repubs sure can produce the homeless, eh?
Unwed mothers, too! (you forgot the unweds..;^))
To: boomop1
How true you are, but you know, I policed for 21 years and NEVER did I see an american starve to death. Hungry, yes, but no death by hunger. A lot of the homeless is by choice. 'Will work for food'? stop and ask one to do some work and it will be the sob story of injury, sick. When I am hit up for money I will tell them I will but them meal but they just ate and need the money for later, it is the booze they are after. If they truly need help, I will get them food.
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To: mdittmar
The left is so predictable.For 8 years I watched the Thanksgiving and Christmas local news broadcasts (Channel 3 out of Hartford, CT) talk about how fortunate the hungry and homeless were to have the shelters and how everyone was being fed more than they could eat and how happy they were and, and, and.....
"Gosh things are just so wonderful here at the downtown shelters and we are hearing this from all over the state, back to you guys in the studio."
This year....you guessed it.
"It's always sad this time of year to see so many, many people and especially the children with no place to call home that are forced to depend on the meager offerings of this shelter and others like it across the state. I guess all of us should be very thankful this year. Back to you....."
To: 3AngelaD
You have to be a complete idiot (or a drugs-and-alcohol addled parasite) to go hungry, ill clad or homeless here.
Sad, but I think that's absolutely correct. With the raft of benefits and services, public and private, there's virtually no way you can go hungry in the U.S.
I'm also continually baffled by those in our society who seem to have no support network whatsoever -- no family, friends, church or other group to help our in times of need. Short of mental illness of chemical dependency, I just can't understand it.
To: mdittmar
The annual report found an increase in requests for emergency food assistance in 25 of the 27 cities surveyed with no change reported in the other two, Chicago and Charleston.Does this mean that CNN wil run those pictures of starving kids in Orlando and have Christianne (Hors de combat) Amanpour reporting from DisneyWorld?
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posted on
12/12/2001 1:07:07 PM PST
by
scouse
To: mdittmar
These Liberal Morons are trying their usual spin - it never changes and they are so predictable.
Me thinks this is what they are trying to make Bush look like.
BUSH & THE HOMELESS ISSUE
To: mdittmar
Hunger, Homelessness Rise Sharply in U.S.So are bummery and fraud.
Why was this posted under Humor?
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posted on
12/12/2001 1:11:50 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: mdittmar
the media has been waiting 8 years to dust these stories off just more crap the aids stories cannot be far behind
To: mdittmar
Living on the street in this country is a choice. Anyone who is completely broke can get government assistance. If you don't believe me go down to the welfare office and check out the requirements.
On the otherhand, these communist food hand outs discourage self-relience. Few people will starve themselves to death is they know they are not going to get a free hand out.
I say we get rid of all the communist hand out programs. If I had the 40% of stolen income taken in the form of taxes I could afford to do alot more charity. As it is I only donate 10% of every penny I make as well as a small portion of my time.
Is there any doubt the prosperity, self-reliance, and charaty created by abolishing most taxes would take care of many problems. Most importantly people could discover what it is like to give of themselves instead of this inpersonable redistribution system we have now.
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posted on
12/12/2001 1:12:39 PM PST
by
mconder
To: mdittmar
I also heard that divorce, gay marriage, youth violence, and abortions rose sharply as well. Oh well...that's America. Love it or leave it or just keep hammerin the liberals.
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posted on
12/12/2001 1:13:41 PM PST
by
exmarine
To: onedoug
Leftist B.S. is not news as far as I'm concerned.
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posted on
12/12/2001 1:15:20 PM PST
by
mdittmar
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