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Originally Posted by Guest
Did it ever occur to you that many of the long term unemployed have succombed to starvation since republicans refuse to extend unemployment benefits?[/QUOTE]
Ummm...aren't you talking about the exact same group of people that I was referring to in my original post?
The long-term unemployed people who are no longer eligible to collect unemployment so they are not counted in the unemployment statisitics?
The same group of people that the Buggy one claimed that I was "making up statistics on"?
Former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao says, “Real Unemployment Numbers Are Double. All of us have friends or family members who have been unemployed so long they don’t show up on the government indicators. Those only track NEW unemployment claims."
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Hunger the third rail in the entitlement debate. Few candidates Democrat, Republican or Indepndent would even question this conventional wisdom on this particular issue because that would make them look indifferent .............
The US government spends close to $1 trillion a year providing cash, food housing medical care and services to the poor or near poor. Of that amount $111 billion is spent on food in federal and state programs. yet despite spending stories of rampart hunger persist.. In a published report last September by the Heritage Foundation researchers Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield ....
found that according to the Census Bureau data for 2009 (the most recent statistics available) of the almost 50 million Americans classified as poor 96% of the parents said their children were never hungry. Eighty -three percent of poor families reported having enough to eat and 82% of poor adults said they were never hungry at anytime during 2009 due to lack of food or money
The Myth of Starving Americans by Warren Kozak, author WSJ Monday 1/30/12