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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease don't forget thousands and thousands of your neighbors have lost their food stamps and are quietly starving
It seems like a huge percentage of du participants are well off, I am not saying rich but yall talk about investing and vacationing a lot so theres no reason it would be on your mind all the time, that people are starving because of republicans controlling all 3 branches.
But thats what is happening
Dont let the imperfections of our very human candidates stop the blue wave we should be able to expect
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For a lot of us which party is in power is an inconvenience, for poor people its a matter of life or death
Harker
(18,264 posts)Injustice tends to get stuck in my throat.
dlilafae
(497 posts)very seriously. Thanks for the reminder.
Grim Chieftain
(2,186 posts)Dear God, I cannot believe what this country has become. But hey! The orange felon is well fed, and we are picking up the tab.
Beacool
(30,533 posts)I'm so ashamed of this country right now. I'll never understand how working class people can continue to support this evil regime.
Beacool
(30,533 posts)I'm so ashamed of this country right now. I'll never understand how working class people can continue to support this evil regime.
leftstreet
(41,332 posts)BonnieJW
(3,150 posts)and make a donation. Many of them frequently run out of food.
questionseverything
(12,106 posts)efhmc
(17,112 posts)questionseverything
(12,106 posts)If you dont want to donate through them you could take bags of non perishables to the welfare office, every one leaving needs food or knows someone who does
The plasma center is another place you will find hungry people, so desperate they are selling their fluids
efhmc
(17,112 posts)MerryBlooms
(12,464 posts)Sometimes, because folks are proud by nature, rural might be a table of canned food at the end of your driveway 🥰
MerryBlooms
(12,464 posts)Every person I know on assistance, had their food assistance cut, heating/ac cut, rents all raised. Some meds denied under medicaid or supplimental... Every soul I know, is now lost money because of SS increase. Everything else was cut, plus, trump and his minions cutting "fraud".
Poor people are struggling mightily, yet all anyone talks about is middle class?!? Um, go stand in a food bank that you had to walk to in rain, snow, 100's... stand for 2 hrs, then walk back to your camp. You know cops gonna run you out, next day, 3 day limit... That whole "Livibility", part of our local cops. Fire season already. You can't cook in camp with a flame. No lunch meat at the food bank 🤷♀️
MerryBlooms
(12,464 posts)A lot of food banks don't exist anymore. Donations are way down. Churches used to, but neighbors complain
Ugh, just stop
People are getting desperate
People that were surviving, aren't. More homeless coming. They Are Not Invisible People! They Are Us!!
questionseverything
(12,106 posts)I try and donate vienna sausages ( tasty protein with a pull ring top) , fruit cups (same pull ring), spam stuff a person can travel with
MerryBlooms
(12,464 posts)It's all so needed. Many times it's a 2 person camp, cant leave the camp alone, because it will be robbed. We gave a propane heater. They both left only short time, propane and heater stolen.🤨😭
MerryBlooms
(12,464 posts)Animal deposit, etc... plus, been arrested for illegal camping, etc... i mean, our gal was so excited when she grew a watermelon! 🥰 then, cops showed up, ran them out, but she was able to get back and harvested.
So ridiculous.
questionseverything
(12,106 posts)Most of us get to take wiping ourselves off before bed for granted
Ponietz
(4,511 posts)Im still upset with poor non voters. Generally, there was no legitimate excuse for sitting out the 2024 election. Thats harsh but still I am sorry so many face food insecurity.
MerryBlooms
(12,464 posts)We help a gal who bathes in a filthy creek. Her phone is dead most of the time. Our mobile home park, replaced Our fence, and now we have no gate. We use to help way more people.
People are trying to survive. Our little gal just wants to have a little garden on the side of a filthy creek.
Ugh.
Picture please, for one moment, having a menstrual cycle, unhoused. So, yes. At this time, I can help her, but I am fully aware there are hundreds just like her, getting Zero help.
milestogo
(23,271 posts)questionseverything
(12,106 posts)But we have to fight back by trying to care for each other
MerryBlooms
(12,464 posts)Hate our Dem govs! Our Dem governors have been the only thing that's saved Oregon!
So fed up with most my own family, who, btw, don't have a pt to puss in, but all voted trump and still hate all democrats. They tolerate me, but I'm the caretaker of the matriarch of the family. Which, she helped raied, none have come to see, except 1, but my ass would hang if anything happened. 🤣🥰🤔🫣