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10-23-2008, 10:54 AM
Denver Post journalist Kevin Simpson wrote a penetrating story on poverty in Colorado. He quoted Rick Donahue, an unemployed carpenter, “This is the most destitute, scary feeling I’ve ever had in my life. The wolves are at the door.”
Simpson reported frightening statistics, “Statewide, 258,000 people are using food stamps—nearly 12,000 more clients since December. In Arapahoe county a 30 percent increase in applications for food stamps, plus a 33 percent jump in Medicaid applications and a 17 percent rise in requests for federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.”
To give you a more sobering statistic, Brian Williams at NBC reported in August that 28 million Americans live on food stamps.
Another problem Simpson reported stemmed from unpaid utility bills. “The biggest demand, after food, has been for help paying utilities,” said Ms. Greene, a nonprofit task force volunteer in Douglas County.
“Her $1,800 weekly allotment is gone by 10 a.m. on Monday,” Simpson reported.
“A laid-off administrator from a real estate office teetered on the edge of panic,” Simpson reported. “She already has borrowed money from her mother, maxed out her credit cards and tapped out her unemployment insurance claim.”
With 258,000 lives hanging on a food stamp coupon in Colorado and a five percent unemployment caseload, why won’t the Denver Post address the core reason? What is that reason?
Colorado allows from 300,000 to 500,000 illegal aliens full access to jobs, health care, education, free breakfast and lunch programs, and “Sanctuary Policy” in Denver and Boulder. Thus, illegal aliens cost Colorado taxpayers millions and millions of dollars as well as jobs. By walking into any construction site, roofing of a house, lawn service, house painting, fast food shop, restaurant and hotel—you’ll hear the familiar sound of Mexican or South American Spanish speaking illegal aliens that displaced Colorado citizens from jobs.
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Simpson reported frightening statistics, “Statewide, 258,000 people are using food stamps—nearly 12,000 more clients since December. In Arapahoe county a 30 percent increase in applications for food stamps, plus a 33 percent jump in Medicaid applications and a 17 percent rise in requests for federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.”
To give you a more sobering statistic, Brian Williams at NBC reported in August that 28 million Americans live on food stamps.
Another problem Simpson reported stemmed from unpaid utility bills. “The biggest demand, after food, has been for help paying utilities,” said Ms. Greene, a nonprofit task force volunteer in Douglas County.
“Her $1,800 weekly allotment is gone by 10 a.m. on Monday,” Simpson reported.
“A laid-off administrator from a real estate office teetered on the edge of panic,” Simpson reported. “She already has borrowed money from her mother, maxed out her credit cards and tapped out her unemployment insurance claim.”
With 258,000 lives hanging on a food stamp coupon in Colorado and a five percent unemployment caseload, why won’t the Denver Post address the core reason? What is that reason?
Colorado allows from 300,000 to 500,000 illegal aliens full access to jobs, health care, education, free breakfast and lunch programs, and “Sanctuary Policy” in Denver and Boulder. Thus, illegal aliens cost Colorado taxpayers millions and millions of dollars as well as jobs. By walking into any construction site, roofing of a house, lawn service, house painting, fast food shop, restaurant and hotel—you’ll hear the familiar sound of Mexican or South American Spanish speaking illegal aliens that displaced Colorado citizens from jobs.
http://oneoldvet.com/?p=8567
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