Salvation Army Seeing Record Number Of Families In Need
Officials with the Salvation Army say they’re seeing a record number of families asking for help this holiday season.
Nearly 18,000 families have registered for Christmas assistance in the last month. That number has grown by 2,500 since last year, breaking the 2009 record.
Jim Lincoln wrote: --- Be an Independent kick the bums out of either party!
Good idea. I would prefer the Republican Party just die and be replaced. What good are Democrat wannabees? The Democrats are already dead, but refuse to lie down.
PS fwow, most independents and seniors went for Romney.
I like the Salvation Army. I put a dime or a quarter every once in a while in the kettles they have during this time of the year. I have frequented the thrift stores that the Salvation Army operates a lot over the years. I have purchased records, cassette tapes, 8 track tapes and video tapes from the Salvation Army thrift stores.
Mike of N.Y., I said it appears that Bush did the right thing or some of the right things on the housing situation, but of course Baby-faced Bush and Wild Bill Clinton hold a huge responsibility for the economic collapse. Did you see him trying to reign in his buddies at Enron, q.v., Enron: The Bush Connection or what I find extremely damaging, Bush-friendly Church Gets $1 Million 'Faith-based' Grant, etc. Faith-based Initiative was and is a devilish idea.
Bill Moyers wrote: I am an equal opportunity muckraker. Anyone who saw the documentary my team and I produced on the illegal fund-raising for Bill Clinton's re-election knows I am no fan of the Democratic money-machine that helped tear away the party from whatever roots it had in the struggles of working people. But today the Republicans own the government lock, stock, and barrel. And they have turned their self-proclaimed revolution into a cash cow.
I saw one clip, ONE (pointing to my left index finger with my right index finger for emphasis), and that was on the Stossel show where Bush said something in wholehearted support of the then still-inflating housing bubble. The rest were from democrats (Dodd, Frank, Clinton, etc.). That's why I used the word "government" instead of "democrats", much as I'd have preferred to use the latter.
Never was thrilled with W Bush but what we have now most definitely makes his two terms look like "the good ol' days".
Jim Lincoln wrote: Strange, most of my comment was about "Wild Bill" Clinton. It seems like I did say say the impeachable Baby Bush apparently try to do the right thing about home mortgages when you brought that up Mike. The only thing dastardly I pointed out about Bush was The Faith-Based Initiative and ‘Charitable Choice’: Harmful to Religious Liberty and Civil Rights and never even mentioned the Abramhoff years, which I just now did.
Cloudy memory, Jim. You on numerous occasions have held Bush responsible for the economic collapse which was brought on by the housing crash. Now you say he apparently tried to do the right thing? I'm glad you apparently looked into it.
San Jose John wrote: I'm still amazed at how much damage our government has done to our economy by trying to "help" so many people obtain houses by forcing the relaxing of lending standards. The result being many thousands of people in financial hock for being encouraged to try to purchase something they had no business even thinking about "buying". Disgusting beyond belief.
Careful SJ John, Jim might see this an imaginative opening to blame Bush, instead of Frank, Dodd, and the Democrats who threatened the banks if they didn't make such loans.
Jim Lincoln wrote: This somewhat answers the thread of why so many people are on food stamps, because of the destructive policies of the Clinton (I thought it was highly amusing how Wild Bill out Repub the GOP--but no more ) - Bush Administrations. Lets' make both Presidents for a day so they can be impeached.
I'm still amazed at how much damage our government has done to our economy by trying to "help" so many people obtain houses by forcing the relaxing of lending standards. The result being many thousands of people in financial hock for being encouraged to try to purchase something they had no business even thinking about "buying". Disgusting beyond belief.
This somewhat answers the thread of why so many people are on food stamps, because of the destructive policies of the Clinton (I thought it was highly amusing how Wild Bill out Repub the GOP--but no more ) - Bush Administrations. Lets' make both Presidents for a day so they can be impeached.
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) - Bush Administrations. Lets' make both Presidents for a day so they can be impeached. 
john uk from wales: "
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apparently i have a reading comprehension problem..."
