OCCUPY WALL STREET

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Originally Posted by SoNotHer

I wrote about a student with health issues and no health insurance a couple weeks ago. Though the Now she's about to get evicted with two small kids in two. She's going to school to try to be a nurse. She's being evicted for $200 - $150 of that is the court filing fees for the eviction. I am scrambling to find her pro bono help and money or assistance somewhere.

And then I get a call today from an old friend who is no without a job or a permanent place to stay for her and her daughter. I invite her to live with me several hundred miles away, but because of a custody issue, she can't leave her area. And so in one I have poured over the internet looking for resources for two mothers with young children who, though several states away from each other, are in the position of now having to look for money and a place to live.

This is how we do it here, right?

"The face of hunger is changing"- as "they" say." In the past month, 2 more friends of mine have now been laid off. Another is just waiting for the notice to come shortly.

I watched a program last week on this "new face" of hunger- the increased numbers of middle-class people now applying for food stamps that have been laid off but are hanging on with minimum wage jobs. They have small children and until the last 4 years have been employed and attained some of their dreams. Now?

Sometimes I think that it is still going to have to get worse before the numbers of Occupy demonstrators to grow to the level that will scare those in Washington. Is that what it will take? Today, the democratic payroll deduction bill as well as the GOP's failed in Congress. Deadlocked ideological bullshit bickering as usual. It is going to be a very long campaign season with billions of dollars spent on it. Billions on freaking election campaigns!

We have got to get private $ out of politics. OCCUPY Campaign Funding!