Oh how embarrassed, ashamed, and angry, yes, angry, I am at this BASTION of LIBERALISM, this SANCTIMONIOUS SANCTUARY of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and NARROW-MINDEDNESS!!
Also see: Massachusetts Hates Its Homeless (and related links within)
Btw, what are the hard-working liberals (as opposed to conservative looters, what ever that means) up to when they are NOT GIVING AWAY OUR TAX MONEY??
NOTHING!
And don't get me wrong; our Repugs are no better! The logical progression? They better shape up or it's tar, feather, harbor time.
"Food aid sign-ups flooding Mass.; Requests rise 20% in year; applicants may wait weeks" by David Abel, Globe Staff | February 26, 2009
Over the past year, the number of Massachusetts residents receiving food stamps has surged 20 percent, bringing the total to more than 600,000 and taxing the state's ability to serve those in need, welfare officials say....
After TOSSING AWAY MILLIONS in taxpayer dollars?
This is LIBERAL, COMPASSIONATE Massachusetts?
The crush of applications comes as the state's welfare department has about 25 percent fewer caseworkers and supervisors than at the start of the decade, when the food stamp rolls were less than half what they are today. It has also resulted in a potentially dangerous delay in the processing of applications.
Ah, WHO CARES if you STARVE, just don't do it in the road, huh?
Six months ago, the agency handled the average application in about two weeks; today, it takes closer to a month. Federal law gives states a week to process emergency requests for food aid....
The backlog may only get worse, because of provisions in the recently passed federal stimulus package that provide $20 billion for food stamps and extend the period for which healthy adults without children are eligible for such assistance. Instead of being limited to collecting food stamps for three months in a three-year period, these adults will now be eligible for food stamps continuously through Sept. 30, 2010.
Even the alleged "generosity" of our loving government turns out to be miserly shit! NO ONE should be HUNGRY in AMERICA!!!!
To qualify, a household of one can have a gross monthly income of $1,127....
Mine is zero, and I've never gotten a damn dime from them.
"This is a difficult time, and it's obviously very concerning what we're seeing," said Phuoc Cao, director of the food stamps program at the state Department of Transitional Assistance. "We understand the situations people are facing. I just ask that people be a little patient with us. Just like anything else, the wait's going to be a little longer, but we're trying our best."
I'm sorry, but when you see the LOOTING of the TAXPAYER in this state, the PATIENCE is GONE!! And NOW our residents are going to GO HUNGRY, too!!!!! But I'll bet the POLITICIANS and ELITES are EATING JUST FINE!!!!!!
But some of those applying for food stamps have run out of patience - and food, they say.
Meanwhile, down at the U.N.:
"Every table was set with a single fresh rose (from the rose gardens outside, I was told) and a full complement of three forks, two knives, and two spoons in silver plate..... The buffet tables could have graced a high-end ocean liner. I watched a gentleman in colorful African garb pile his plate with slices of roast sirloin and potatoes mashed with feta cheese. A post-retirement-age couple from the East Side scarfed up most of the egg rolls, though more came out quickly....
I made for the roast leg of lamb with rosemary sauce after I filled my salad plate with chilled asparagus and slices of a duck and pork terrine.... fresh tomato soup and bowls of pasta primavera.... The dessert buffet table practically groaned under a spread of apple and pumpkin pies, cheesecakes, tarts, half a dozen cheeses, sliced fruits, bowls of berries, and, off to one side, three urns of ice cream"
And that was just for LUNCH!
Also see: Globalist Gluttons Gorge Themselves
Yup, but the PAPER and GOVERNMENT are LOOKING OUT for YOU, shit-eating Amurkn!!!!!!After three months of calling and waiting in long lines during multiple trips to the welfare office in Brockton, Joslyn Portier said she's still waiting - and that she now survives on one meal a day.
I know how she feels; I've been doing that for months!
The disabled 54-year-old, who lives alone in Sharon, now relies on food pantries and family, but she has a hard time getting to the former and worries she's burdening the latter.
You know, when corporations want hand-outs they get them right away -- even if the state has to borrow to do it!!!
And seriously, WHAT FUCKING GOOD is this DAMN GOVERNMENT if people (like me, too) are relying on FAMILY and FRIENDS?!!
WhereTF IS OUR TAX MONEY GOING?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU BET I'M ANGRY!!!
"I've had no choice but to cut back on eating," Portier said.
Let's EAT the RICH!!!!!
Portier, like others who have collected food stamps for years, had a problem recertifying her eligibility, which recipients must do at certain times depending on their situation.
Yup, they make YOU run through HOOPS while SHOVELING MONEY away to CORPORATIONS, HOLLYWOOD, BANKS, etc, etc, etc!!!!!
She said the welfare office never received a form she had mailed, and in December she discovered she had been cut off from the $175 a month she had been receiving in food stamps for more than three years. Since then, she said, she has called several times a week and made at least four trips to the Brockton office, where she said the line often extends past the door.
I'll tell you something; that is in NO WAY a WEEKLY FEAST, folks!!
That ain't buying her much at all!!!!
On her most recent trip to the welfare office, she said, her caseworker apologized but said there was nothing she could do. "She just pointed to a recertification box, where there were easily 100 applications," Portier said. "She said I would just have to wait."
You know what?
I am SICK and FUCKING TIRED of hearing their DAMN EXCUSES!!!
They never buy mine, so fuck off, state shit can!!!
Neither Cao nor other state officials would comment on Portier's case, citing confidentiality. But officials at the welfare office off Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, which processes more food stamp applications than any of the department's other 24 offices around the state, said such stories are increasingly common.
"It can be a bureaucratic nightmare for some people," said Mary Flanigan, assistant director of the Boston office and an agency employee for 32 years. "I hear from advocates all the time that more people are getting lost in the system. Unfortunately, it's no longer uncommon for me to hear from someone who says they're down to one package of Ramen noodles."
But the GOVERNMENT is here to HELP YOU!! How SICKENING!!!!!!!
That's why it is getting a write-up in the paper, huh?
If it were just us poor saps we'd be spit on for being lazy, right?
"We have more pending applications than ever," said Flanigan, noting that each caseworker now averages about 80 pending applications, quadruple the number of a year ago, and more of them are emergency requests. She said emergency food stamps last 30 days and applicants have to reapply when the month ends, so caseworkers often end up having to do twice the work.
That's your GOVERNMENT EFFICIANCY for you!!
Caseworker Kelley Woods said her phone never seems to stop ringing.
"It's hard to keep up," she said, noting it now routinely takes her about a month - the legal time limit - to process an application. "You want to make everyone happy, but everyone's in need . . . So you don't take breaks too often."
Except for those who NEED EMERGENCY FOOD and NEVER SEE IT due to government "incompetence!"
To speed up the process, Cao and other department officials said they have streamlined the application, lengthened the time people can collect food stamps to reduce the recertification paperwork, and are training new caseworkers to help carry the load.
More HORSE SHIT PROMISES AFTER the FACT rom the SHITHOLE GOVERNMENT!!
Yeah, THIS STORY is making me FURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!
NO ONE SHOULD BE HUNGRY in AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!
But the changes were not visible this week to Maria Sunica, 50, of Hyde Park. Like Portier, she has been waiting three months for food stamps. She said she survives on handouts from the Red Cross, but now eats just two meals a day, mainly rice and beans.
Waiting in a long line in the lobby of the Boston office, Sunica said she has grown frustrated with the delay. "They keep telling me to wait, to be patient," said Sunica, a diabetic with kidney problems. "But how long should this take? At some point, this is negligence."
THAT is RIGHT!!
This WHOLE STATE GOVERNMENT is NEGLECTING ITS PEOPLE!!!
Unfortunately, the voters of this state are so steeped in liberalism they believe the totla opposite. They STILL BELIEVE GOVERNMENT CARES about them!!!
I'm SO ASHAMED of my FELLOW CITIZENS!!!!
Maybe when THEIR STOMACHS are GROWLING and THEY are COLD they might finally GET THEIR HEADS out of their asses!!!!!!!
