What's a radical Mom doing on a warm summer day? Making Fig Jam from my very own fig tree. My first attempt. I love trying new things like blogging and cooking as well as learning all sorts of new thing. On Sunday night I learned that there are far more starving people in the USA than I ever imagined. Dateline NBC did a special on Ohio's poverty and I was taken back. As I mashed and mixed and cooked my Jam this morning I thought of how fortunate I was to be smelling these wonderful smells of fresh food cooking in my kitchen and realizing how privileged I am to be able to do so.
Yesterday I heard that Chefs for Humanity, who I will be writing today, collected MILLIONS for Haiti which just last week was reported to be totally unimproved after 6 months despite all the aid we have poured into this poor nation. The corrupt government and officials have just wasted all our dollars and the people have seen little to no benefit what so ever.
So it makes me really angry that so many celebrities and groups have given so much to other nations in their time of need and have totally ignored what is in our own back yard.
People are starving in the USA! Today, right now. I just heard Meg Whitman candidate in California state that there are more people out of work in California than the entire population of 13 states! There's alot of hungry people in California where stars dine on Rodeo Drive and look out their Malibu windows to a pristine sea. But blocks away homeless people push carts and panhandle on the corner. We need to get a handle on the extreme wealth and the extreme poor in this nation. People need to do more. Before you give one cent to ANY nation make sure you divide those dollars up. Half to them, half to a local food bank right here in the USA!
Where I live people pay $40,000 a night for suite. They pay $400.00 a bottle for Vodka just to have a place to sit at a dance club. They wear their designer clothes they paid thousands for and Jimmy Choo's they paid hundreds for. They eat $400.00 gold covered cupcakes and yet this city has the highest forclosure and bankrupcy rates in the nation! We have many homeless families here and the very places they are hanging out in wining and dinig are responsible of laying off many workers despite making huge profits.I am going to make it my mission to contact each celebrity I see mentioned in the "society" or Entertainment page of my local paper and I am going to ask... Do you realise what you spent on just one night of partying could have supplied several food pantry's for a entire YEAR?
These wealthy people need to do more. When was the last time they had a telethon for AMERICA?
Just like cooking and taking care of a family, everything must blend together and work harmoniously to work effectively. One problem effects the entire flow of things. It upsets the apple cart so to speak. It is the same with our nation and how so many issues are interconnected. Like jobs and starvation. Like credit checks keeping people from working which keeps people from being able to provide for their families. Like corporate greed keeping people down by lobbyist doing everything they can do to not get HR3149 The Equal Opportunity For All bills from ever being heard.
I hear political candidates say tax cuts will bring more jobs. Do not believe it for a minute! Do you know American corporation are HOARDING mass amounts of CASH? Over a 100 TRILLION dollars instead of reinvesting it in expansion, new hires, research and development or any other use. This has been widely reported in the last two weeks and I will site The Bloomberg Report as just one source which i read this fact in.
Just HOARDING the cash. If these corporations get anymore tax breaks they will not put people back to work! They will give their investors higher dividend checks and report RECORD profits, which by the way many corporations are doing right now today while people in this nation are starving and yet they say they are "afraid" to hire. That is bull, a lie pure and simple.
The level of greed we are experiencing in this day and age by huge conglomerate corporations knows no boundaries. They could CARE LESS about putting this nation back to work. If you are one of the lucky ones who has a job then please give back something. Help those less fortunate than yourself. I am a stay at home Mom. My husband has a reasonable job. We are not rich. We are the soon to be extinct, middle class. But we are very lucky none the less. He has a job. He goes to work everyday when some days he wished he didn't have to. He is no spring chicken either. Anything could happen any day and we have no savings. I am not afraid to share that because that is like the bulk of this nation right now. We live paycheck to pay check, simple as that. Our situation could change for the worse very quickly. So I am grateful. I am humbled and I am going to help whoever I can when ever I can.
And I ask that if you are reading this you do the same. Don't wait till the Holidays to get that warm fuzzy feeling to help. Don't wait for your church to tell you what to do. Just do it!
Help someone, just one person a day! And before you waste $5.00 on a Starbucks coffee make a pot at home and give the $4.50 to a food bank!
Don't just drive by the person standing on the corner asking for food. DO Something! So even if you think your credit is great and you have tons of dollars in the bank, know it and know it now that could radically change IN A HEART BEAT!
You may not be able to find work for 7-10 years because of ONE bill paid late! Credit checks in the workplace is destroying opportunity and advancement for 22 million people in this nation right now today! These are families. These are people who need to work to have a place to live and money to feed their families. We as a nation must demand HR3149 gets heard, passed and implemented today before one more child goes hungry tonight, it is as simple as that. If you are endorsing this practice then you need to educate yourself. It is wrong on every level. We are humans not numbers and credit reports say NOTHING about who you are as a human being or you ability to perform a job well with competency and honesty.
Credit scores are the mark of the beast we have all been warned about and I am not Christian but I believe this number is determining your future, your hopes and your dreams on a daily basis and it must stop.
A number that determines who will eat and who will not cannot be accepted in our society at any time ever. If you call yourself a good Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or Hindu there is no WAY this can be condoned. Credit reports were NEVER intended to keep people from employment. Please outlaw this practice now and call or write your Senator, Congressman or the White House and let them know you want this practice outlawed NOW. I hope you don't think I am too "Radical" but this who I am and what I believe and I am willing to spend my days working on something as important as children starving in America and i will not apologize for it! Please go out and do something for a starving American today!
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