Skol maybe you should hire a car and have a look at the real America while your over there Direct copy and past from another site I visit with a attendance of about 65% Americans... Subject about unemployment 2 days ago.
You know.. I think its higher than that . I had posted last year about the people I was introduced to who were living homeless. Our homeless shelter had closed and those that couldnt be placed elsewhere were living in parks or anywhere with shelter. I practice what I preach so I tried to get a community/individual reaction to OUR people living in such dire conditions so private folks banded together to feed, offer jobs, give blankets and look out for our fellow citizens. The amount of NEWLY homeless/jobless was shocking. Men living homeless while wives or girlfriennds with kids displaced among family members was a running theme I hadnt heard before in these numbers. Family units destroyed... it was shocking to me. These folks WANT to work but here there is very little to keep you afloat unless you work at the base: contract or are a very skilled worker. This year they asked many many civ employees and some contractors on base to take up to a 50% pay cut if they wanted to keep their position. Many HAD to.... which was financial destruction in the best case scenario. Kids go to school without appropriate winter wear. We still do it regardless of the warnings, but the "authorities" tried to block the children receiving 2nd hand coats, boots, gloves, and hats! Our summer lunch program was a disaster this year. We didnt have enough food to go around.. by far. Our burden was added to by the adults that came and needed food as well! Its advertised for school age children that usually get only one balanced meal a day during school session.. and none over the summer. We had EVERYONE show up. We had it at the park and were overwhelmed. We had to ask one of our members who goes to a church here to get ahold of her community outreach at church to chip in. I have NO problem turning away a mooch who looks like they havent missed a meal.. I favor the needy. ; This was a slight problem with the church folks who did some fishing for men with hotdogs and hamburgers.. but who cares. There were too many needy to debate supply and demand with the church... ;
I believe in charity by choice and not compulsory charity. Problem is that we givers are not able to handle the demand out of our pockets alone now for what we have done in the past. The demand is incredible and had had a sharp uptick mostly in the last 3 years. Made me sick when I recently learned that our community park stocked ponds were fished out completely.. even the turtles. They found the shells... and traps the homeless were trapping critters with in the parks..
America... where we give billions to people that hate us and squander billions on things that dont matter.. and our own starve. People need to step up INDIVIDUALLY in any way they can. I dont even care what your reasons are anymore... selfish or altruistic.. who cares. Just do it.
