Posted on 11/09/2011 12:39:52 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
United States Census and other publicly available records tell us we may be in worse shape now than most people would believe. Consider these shocking statistics.
The Census Bureau reports that in 84% of our largest metropolitan areas the percentage of “very poor” people increased during 2010.
The Census Bureau, reported the percentage of “very poor” rose 84% of America’s 360 largest metropolitan areas during 2010.
The 2.6 million people who fell into poverty in 2010 was the largest recorded increase since records were first kept in 1959.
Even the number of “poor” has risen from 11.3% in 2000 to 15.1%
During 2010 the poverty rate for children hit 22%.
In at least 314 American counties at least 30% of children live with daily food insecurity.
School lunch programs are an indispensable part of the daily food intake for more than 20 million children.
Over 45 million Americans live off food stamps.
Since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 the number of people on food stamps has jumped 74%.
Current projections say that approximately 50% of all American children will on food stamps at some point before he or she reaches 18.
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
And yet Ohio just rejected eliminating collective bargaining for public employee unions. So, people aren’t poor enough yet. Let the destruction proceed.
I hate the new term “food insecurity”...what a f’ing joke.
Just what does it really mean? Just like the terms “partly sunny or partly cloudy”. Quit pussy footing and tell it like it is for crying out loud.
But don’t you see, it’s for the CHILDREN!
The fact that all these efforts turn out badly, well, that was unfortunate, but Bush’s fault, doncha know?
After all, the very protective state-supported enterprises had the very best of intentions, how could you blame them for this?
( /sarcasm )
Bump for later read.
Obama is driven by the need to help people.
Obama believes that rich people do NOT need help.
Obama believes that poor people DO need help.
So, the sooner Obama can make the rich people poor,
The sooner Obama can help them.
You can’t cheat an honest electorate.
Obama is just the voters’ hired COO. We do it to ourselves and try to blame some shadowy outside power.
Thanks Oldpuppymax.
Hey, Brit. Love you, man.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~brityank/
For all the people that can blame their problems on one man need to pull their thumb out of their ass.
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