Amnesty for illegals.
Sex education for our children.
Millions to mosques.
Millions to Haiti
Millions to prisoners who were illegally searched.
Foreign aid to 150 countries.
Record unemployment.
Corporate bailouts.
We all know some facts about the above tag lines. So today, we’re going to discuss something less well known: Homelessness and Hunger in the United States of America.
Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is publisher of the Trends Journal which forecasts and analyzes business, socioeconomic, political, and other trends, and is renowned for his accuracy in predicting future world and economic events which can send a chill down your spine.
Celente said that by 2012 America will become an underdeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.
"We're going to see the end of the retail Christmas... we're going to see a fundamental shift take place... putting food on the table is going to be more important than putting gifts under the Christmas tree," said Celente, adding that the situation would be "worse than the great depression."
"America's going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for," said Celente, noting that people's refusal to acknowledge that America was is even in a recession highlights how big a problem denial is in being ready for the true scale of the crisis.
At the end of 2010 Optimistic economists believed that the housing market would recover if the economy stabilized and started to improve. They predicted a better housing market in 2011 for a variety of reasons, but the numbers seem determined to prove the economists wrong.
According to a new survey released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the number of people experiencing homelessness and hunger has increased in the past year.
The survey, which encompasses twenty-seven major cities found that the overall number of Americans who went homeless in 2010 increased by two percent. More than half of the cities saw an increase in the number of families and individuals experiencing homelessness. The number of families who went homeless rose by nine percent, and the number of individuals who went homeless increased by 2.5 percent.
Since the early 1980's, the U.S. Conference of Mayors has studied the extent of hunger and homelessness issues in cities throughout the U.S., as well as efforts cities are making to address these challenges
Every city surveyed reported that requests for emergency food assistance increased over the past year, and those requests increased by an average of 24% across the cities. Among those requesting emergency food assistance, 56% were persons in families, 30% were employed, 19% were elderly, and 17% were homeless. Unemployment led the list of causes of hunger cited by the survey cities, followed by high housing costs, low wages, poverty, and lack of access to SNAP/food stamps.
Nearly 14 million children are estimated to be served by Feeding America, over 3 million of which are ages 5 and under.
According to the USDA in 2010, over 17 million children lived in food insecure (low food security and very low food security) households and that number is on the rise. 20% or more of the child population in 16 states and D.C. are living in food insecure households. The states of Arkansas (24.4 percent) and Texas (24.3 percent) have the highest rates of children in households without consistent access to food. 1,063,864 households (14.2%) in Florida are food insecure.
The Washington Times reported in January that one in six Americans now relies on Feeding America for food and groceries. Some 37.9 million people -- one in eight Americans -- receive food stamps to help buy food at latest count.
I could give you more horrendous facts like how much the federal government has spent producing things in languages other than English but you get the idea. Our government seems hell bent on sending millions overseas, taxing business either out of business or out of country, amnesty for illegals etc. while AMERICANS are going hungry each day and night.
Can someone, anyone, explain this rational – because I can’t.
George Washington long ago urged that the US must "Act for ourselves and not for others," by forming an "American character wholly free of foreign attachments. Americans must push the notion to their representatives, that right now, we MUST put AMERICANS first! They need to stop playing around with our money, stop playing partisan games and get back to the business of making America great! That means less government, fiscal responsibility, and a moral compass focused on America.
Americans are going hungry because there are no jobs. Obama's "stimulus" package for two years is a mess, digging us further deeper into a hole.
ReplyDeleteI was a volunteer/coordinator for a homeless Men's shelter out of my parish St. Kevin's in Queens NY for 10 years.
Eighty percent of the men were drug addicts, namely methadone, a drug the City gives away at tax payer expense to "ween" heroine addicts. But it doesn't ween at all, methadone is a dilapidated drug.
The rest were in between jobs, without family or close friends to provide help.
This was a complete volunteer effort from the Parish, and with some small funds from Partnership for the Homeless, we were able to provide the help that was needed.
Mayor Bloomberg cut the program two years ago. Go figure? Communities and local governments working together in an efficient way, and that's the program he cuts!
Bloomberg is better off staffing homeless shelters on the tax payer dime to deal with the problem. Oh, and the methadone give away program still intact.
That just goes to show the magnitude of the drug problem here! Eighty percent - maybe even higher. It makes sense. This is another reason our borders must be closed to deal with drug traffiking. Drugs are ruining our youth and the resulting cost from violent crime to needing a place to sleep is staggering, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the dynamics will change as more and more families become homeless due to job or home loss. People who never thought they would be in such a position find themselves homeless. I've heard of tent cities cropping up.
Our founders had a way to help those in need - community. Now we are so diconnected even from our immediate neighbors. We all need to make an effort to connect with our community and help those in need even if it's just babysitting or fixing a meal. Trade for services - you need a ceiling fan? your neighbor is an out of work carpenter? We do this for a neighbor. Have helped several times with money and he is working off by doing jobs in our home.
I work in the health field where I now see an ever growing illegal clientele. Free evrything when many Americans cannot afford to get healthcare. Don't get me wrong, these are very nice people but put Americans first and stop with all the free stuff to illegals.
Too many people are now dependent on government at a time when even the government is unstable. Our newly elected congress needs to work their tails off to stop the out of control spending.
I do not want my kids living in an underdeveloped nation.
OVER MY DEAD BODY WILL I LET THIS HAPPEN! We are the Tea Party and the trend will be for the Republic to become exceptional in 2012. That will be the end of an Error and a beginning of a new Era. The Era of the Constitutional Conservative, the Tea Party, and again One Nation Under God!
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