Make your choice, American: Home or hunger.
You can't have both.
"Swelling need, shrinking aid test charities" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | December 2, 2009
Massachusetts charities are scrambling to provide food, clothing, and other assistance for surging numbers of families seeking aid this holiday season, with many charities receiving twice as many requests as they did last year.
Don't worry, help is on the way!
See: Sunday Globe Censorship: The Golden Hearts at Goldman Sachs
What could YOU do with a QUARTER-of-a-MILLION DOLLAR BONUS, 'eh, hungry person?
Does eating one unbalanced meal a day to satisfy day-long pangs as my thin frame listens to friends bemoan their expanding waistlines on the basketball court qualify?
Even though some economists say the recession is easing, the Salvation Army in Central Square saw requests for Thanksgiving baskets rise 62 percent this year over 2008. The group is bracing for a similar rush in the upcoming holidays....
Related: Ringing the Recovery Bell
I know who I am believing, and it ain't the lying newspaper!!
Btw, I have noticed LESS BELL RINGERS out there this year! Either STAFF CUTS have eliminated some or something else is afoot because the kettles I normally pitch coins into are no longer where they have been in years past. Not that I have any coin to pitch in anymore.
But as the scope of need explodes, support for charitable causes is withering, as even the most generous donors face their own financial struggles.
Not all of them.
Also see: Reason Number Two Why No One Reads the Boston Globe Anymore
Amazing how some things never touch a certain group of people, huh?
And charities worry that donations, already down in the first nine months of the year, will fall badly short during the holiday season.
But, but, but.... BANKS MADE BILLIONS in PROFITS off TAXPAYER BAILOUTS!!!!
I would RATHER THAT MONEY have gone to the "Army," if you know what I mean!!!
“Dickens was about half right,’’ said Michael Durkin, president of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, recalling the author’s best-of-times, worst-of-times paradox. “This is the toughest year anyone can remember, and a lot of charities have their backs against the wall.’’
Wait a minute! You are MIXING UP the STORIES!!!
If you are talking Christmas you are TALKING SCROOGE and a CHRISTMAS CAROL (of which the excellent 1951 version is NEVER SHOWN)!!!!!
The "best-of-times, worst-of-times" is a TALE of TWO CITIES and the FRENCH REVOLUTION -- although THAT KIND of analogy and TALK is ALSO WELCOME at the current time!!!!
The high demand this year has dashed hopes that the financial crisis and its effects on the poor peaked last holiday season. Instead, persistent joblessness and a continuing struggle for many families trying to stay in their homes have forced even more people to seek assistance.
But don't you worry; the economy is growing and recovery is under way!
Yeah, FOR the WEALTHY ELITE for which the GLOBE WORKS and WRITES!!!
At food pantries, organizers say, people who used to give to the needy are now joining them in line. Out-of-work parents who in better days would spend hundreds of dollars on Christmas presents for their children are now turning to toy drives so the space under the tree is not bare....
Hey, they should have gotten a job with Goldman Sachs so they could get a $250,000 Xmas bonus, that is all I can say!
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John J. Drew, the group’s president, said that requests for food and heating assistance have risen sharply and that requests for holiday toys have doubled from last year. Some are from parents who have been out of work so long their unemployment benefits have expired; they make their housing payments only by skipping meals and keeping the heat low.
Yeah, did you think I was MAKING THAT UP?
And they SURE TAKE THEIR DAMN TIME when it comes to YOUR UNEMPLOYMENT, huh?
You AIN'T a LOOTING BANK!
The group has encountered a growing number of senior citizens who are forgoing medicine to save money. “It’s a desperate time,’’ he said. “People can’t make rent. They are losing their houses; they are tenants in a house that’s getting foreclosed. People come in, little ones in their hands, looking for help.’’
Too bad they didn't get a $250,000 dollar bonus.
Maybe the U.N. or some other globalist crew that supposedly cares so much could have them in for a snack?
"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"
Also see: Globalist Gluttons Gorge Themselves
Obama Talks With His Mouth Full
Oh, yeah, they are working on the hunger problem -- their own fat-assed appetites!
You think they are NOT EATING GOOD at their FART-MISTING CONFERENCE?
I'll tell you where they are NOT GETTING that food!
Maybe you could send their fat-assed throw-outs to Natick?
"The Natick Service Council organized the move to a bigger location, in part to meet a growing number of requests"
Or anywhere in AmeriKa?
"Food stamp use soars across US, and stigma fades" by Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff, New York Times | November 29, 2009
MARTINSVILLE, Ohio - With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed 1 in 8 Americans and 1 in 4 children.
Yup, the GOVERNMENT that LOOTED YOU SO WELL is now STARVING YOU WELL, too!!
Are you NOT GRATEFUL for that RUMBLING STOMACH, America!?
Of course, a HUNGRY POPULATION is a WEAK POPULATION -- but also a DANGEROUS POPULATION!!
A WOUNDED ANIMAL is DANGEROUSLY SELF-DEFENSIVE!!!!
It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys.
Welcome to YOUR New World Order future, America!!!!
Copenhagen means IT'S CLOSE NOW!!!!!!
More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread, and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs.
Yeah, WHERE is THEIR BAILOUT and BONUSES, huh?
Virtually all have incomes near or below the federal poverty line, but their eclectic ranks testify to the range of people struggling with basic needs.
Can you EAT an INSULT, America, and does so much MSM s*** make you full?
They include single mothers and married couples, the newly jobless and the chronically poor, longtime recipients of welfare checks and workers whose reduced hours or slender wages leave pantries bare....
But the RULERS are PARTYING DOWN ALL OVER the PLANET!!!!
From the ailing resorts of the Florida Keys to Alaskan villages along the Bering Sea, the program is now expanding at a pace of about 20,000 people a day.
While the country has been bankrupted by wars, bank bailouts, and the borrowed stimuloot.
There are 239 counties in the United States where at least a quarter of the population receives food stamps, according to an analysis of local data collected by The New York Times. They are as big as the Bronx and Philadelphia and as small as Owsley County in Kentucky, a patch of Appalachian distress where half of the 4,600 residents receive food stamps.
Although the program is growing at a record rate, the federal official who oversees it would like it to grow even faster....
They TRULY ARE a SICK LOT!
But ALL the LIES are FOR YOU, dear Americans -- to FILL YOUR BELLY FULL!!!!
The program’s growing reach can be seen in a corner of southwestern Ohio where red state politics reign and blue-collar workers have often called food stamps a sign of laziness.
I never said that! Besides, it's for crap food not good food.
But unemployment has soared, and food stamp use in a six-county area outside Cincinnati has risen more than 50 percent. With most of his co-workers laid off, Greg Dawson, a third-generation electrician in rural Martinsville, considers himself lucky to still have a job.
They can never talk to an actual unemployed person, can they?
Well, TRY, Times!!!
There are about 20 MILLION of us, so TRY to FIND ONE, will you?
He works the night shift for a contracting firm, installing freezer lights in a chain of grocery stores. But when his overtime income vanished and his expenses went up, Dawson was forced to start skimping on meals to feed his wife and five children.
While he is working around all that food?
He tried to fill up on cereal and eggs. He ate a lot of Spam.
Oh, HE READS NEWSPAPERS?
Then he went to work with a grumbling stomach to shine lights on food he could not afford....
What, his $250,000 bonus not come through?
