[A. Pole]

Since January, the Assistance Center of Collin County in Plano has helped 2,292 residents by paying for prescriptions, utilities, mortgages and rent. About one-quarter of such charitable agencies' clients are previously unserved middle-class residents who request assistance of $4,000 to $8,000 a month, agency officials say. Agency directors call folks new to being needy "the situational poor." They've depleted their savings and retirement accounts and struggle to cling to a lifestyle they no longer can afford.
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"I've had people who paid rent that was almost $1,200. I had a gentleman that wanted us to help pay $4,000 in bills. Our measly $300 assistance wouldn't get him anywhere."

It would be much more fun to see the CEOs, owners, affluent free market fundies etc who exported/outsourced American jobs abroad, to live on food stamps and $300/month assistance. And who knows, when all their assets are in India and Red China it might happen some day.

[1rudeboy]

Despite your class-warfare rhetoric, some do . . . and then go forth and create more jobs.

[ex-snook]

thanks for the ping.

When the next election rolls around, President Bush will have had four years to straighten out what Clinton left him and what he caused himself. If his economic plan can't get it done, the country needs a change, hopefully a GOP replacement but the wheel has turned and it will be time for Bush to go.

[grania]

It would be much more fun to see the CEOs, owners, affluent free market fundies etc who exported/outsourced American jobs abroad, to live on food stamps and $300/month assistance. And who knows, when all their assets are in India and Red China it might happen some day.

Everybody thinks they're immune until they lose their jobs and try to meet their salary expectations. It wouldn't be fun, because they're not gonna' feel it until there's complete economic turmoil. (Heck, the criminal class among them still aren't in jail or haven't given the billions back).