Thefts of U.S. Benefits; San Francisco HUD Housing; Approx. 60% Going to Poor None-English Speaking ‘Elderly’ Chinese Immigrants, While City Has Record Homelessness of American Families With Children:
By Marc Chamot
Historic Poverty in Census; American Families Poorer than Ever & Record Numbers of Children Homeless & Without Food.
The comment I keep hearing, over and over from poor San Franciscan’s, “our elected politicians care more for foreigners, than their own citizens.” However sad, it’s is very true, and that is what my blog, the Marc Chamot Report, has been trying to expose for the past three years.
America, once known for its land of milk and honey, has become the land of the poor and desperate. We’re not much different than Peru or any other despotic, third world nation in Latin America or Asia. We have finally imported so many poor, including the wanton invasion of illegal immigrants that the cancers of immigrant poverty, has stricken Americans in all walks of life.
The only difference here from China and Mexico, we‘ve got social safety nets, which is quickly declining, until it slowly fades away. Where as in Peru, Mexico or China, the poorest have to struggle daily for food, or they go hungry. We, as a nation, seem to have arrived into that same predicament.
It’s hard to believe that in 2011, we are witnessing the dismantling of American society. It wasn’t since the Great Depression that we’ve seen children homeless in masses, and in desperation for survival, only seen in ‘Banana Republics’ like Peru and Mexico.
My points of view, hate it, or love it; the real truths, we as a nation cannot support any more of the world’s poor to continually come here and compete for our benefits, contrary to popular beliefs that the poor come here to work. That is a lie being perpetrated, by pro-open borders and pro-immigration’s groups.
The real truths of the matter; poor immigrants’ are clamoring to come here into the United States, because the U.S. is a magnet for free welfare, and free handouts to poor immigrants, at the expense of its citizens. Most immigrants, who benefit, are those who cannot speak the English language or sustain themselves economically. And most cannot make it by themselves under any other circumstances.
San Francisco and California, is a classic case of massive welfare benefits being doled out to immigrants, mainly to elderly poor Chinese, who are not U.S. citizens, but whose families brought them, and made them wards of the state. But for poor Americans, HUD housing and food at food banks are rarely available to them.
About 60% or more of HUD housing in San Francisco are going to none-English speaking Asian Chinese elderly immigrants, who came here under false pretences, whose families brought them over, and made them wards of the state and of the U.S. welfare systems.
We have San Francisco American citizens, with families, and their children, who cannot get HUD housing, because it’s been all taken by elderly Chinese immigrants.
Right now there are more homeless children in the United States than at any other time since the Great Depression. At Compass, we are providing services to up to 300 or 400 children and their parents on any given day."
What used to be benefits reserved only for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants, it’s become free for all, from medical, schooling to higher education, housing and welfare support. This magnet that keeps attracting the world’s poor into the United States must be cut-off, sooner or later, or it will eventually affect our own safety nets.
The bottom line; When politicians like Jerry Brown says; “we’ve got to cut-off billions from welfare, because the state cannot sustain it,” Liberals like Jerry, isn’t going to say “okay U.S. citizens only, will be getting those benefits,” we all lose them, and we all suffer, Americans suffer, all because what should have been ours in the first place, was stolen by them.
Apparently according to census reports, the American demise has already begun;
The latest census data depict a middle class that's shrinking as unemployment stays high and the government's safety net frays. The new numbers follow years of stagnating wages for the middle class that have hurt millions of workers and families.
"Safety net programs such as food stamps and tax credits kept poverty from rising even higher in 2010, but for many low-income families with work-related and medical expenses, they are considered too 'rich' to qualify," said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan public policy professor who specializes in poverty.
"The reality is that prospects for the poor and the near poor are dismal," he said. "If Congress and the states make further cuts, we can expect the number of poor and low-income families to rise for the next several years."
Congressional Republicans and Democrats are sparring over legislation that would renew a Social Security payroll tax cut, part of a year-end political showdown over economic priorities that could also trim unemployment benefits, freeze federal pay and reduce entitlement spending.
Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, questioned whether some people classified as poor or low-income actually suffer material hardship. He said that while safety-net programs have helped many Americans, they have gone too far, citing poor people who live in decent-size homes, drive cars and own wide-screen TVs.
"There's no doubt the recession has thrown a lot of people out of work and incomes have fallen," Rector said. "As we come out of recession, it will be important that these programs promote self-sufficiency rather than dependence and encourage people to look for work."
Mayors in 29 cities say more than 1 in 4 people needing emergency food assistance did not receive it. Many middle-class Americans are dropping below the low-income threshold — roughly $45,000 for a family of four — because of pay cuts, a forced reduction of work hours or a spouse losing a job. Housing and child-care costs are consuming up to half of a family's income.
States in the South and West had the highest shares of low-income families, including Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina, which have scaled back or eliminated aid programs for the needy. By raw numbers, such families were most numerous in California and Texas, each with more than 1 million.
The struggling Americans include Zenobia Bechtol, 18, in Austin, Texas, who earns minimum wage as a part-time pizza delivery driver. Bechtol and her 7-month-old baby were recently evicted from their bedbug-infested apartment after her boyfriend, an electrician, lost his job in the sluggish economy.
After an 18-month job search, Bechtol's boyfriend now works as a waiter and the family of three is temporarily living with her mother.
"We're paying my mom $200 a month for rent, and after diapers and formula and gas for work, we barely have enough money to spend," said Bechtol, a high school graduate who wants to go to college. "If it weren't for food stamps and other government money for families who need help, we wouldn't have been able to survive."
About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that is designed to provide a fuller picture of poverty.
Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line and are counted as poor, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population. That's up by 4 million from 2009, the earliest numbers for the newly developed poverty measure.
The new measure of poverty takes into account medical, commuting and other living costs. Doing that helped push the number of people below 200 percent of the poverty level up from 104 million, or 1 in 3 Americans, that was officially reported in September.
Broken down by age, children were most likely to be poor or low-income — about 57 percent — followed by seniors over 65. By race and ethnicity, Hispanics topped the list at 73 percent, followed by blacks, Asians and non-Hispanic whites.
Even by traditional measures, many working families are hurting.
Following the recession that began in late 2007, the share of working families who are low income has risen for three straight years to 31.2 percent, or 10.2 million.
That proportion is the highest in at least a decade, up from 27 percent in 2002, according to a new analysis by the Working Poor Families Project and the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research group based in Washington.
Among low-income families, about one-third were considered poor while the remainder — 6.9 million — earned income just above the poverty line. Many states phase out eligibility for food stamps, Medicaid, tax credit and other government aid programs for low-income Americans as they approach 200 percent of the poverty level.
The majority of low-income families — 62 percent — spent more than one-third of their earnings on housing, surpassing a common guideline for what is considered affordable. By some census surveys, child-care costs consume close to another one-fifth.
Paychecks for low-income families are shrinking. The inflation-adjusted average earnings for the bottom 20 percent of families have fallen from $16,788 in 1979 to just under $15,000, and earnings for the next 20 percent have remained flat at $37,000. In contrast, higher-income brackets had significant wage growth since 1979, with earnings for the top 5 percent of families climbing 64 percent to more than $313,000.
A survey of 29 cities conducted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors being released Thursday points to a gloomy outlook for those on the lower end of the income scale.
Many mayors cited the challenges of meeting increased demands for food assistance, expressing particular concern about possible cuts to federal programs such as food stamps and WIC, which assists low-income pregnant women and mothers. Unemployment led the list of causes of hunger in cities, followed by poverty, low wages and high housing costs.
Across the 29 cities, about 27 percent of people needing emergency food aid did not receive it. Kansas City, Mo., Nashville, Tenn., Sacramento, Calif., and Trenton, N.J., were among the cities that pointed to increases in the cost of food and declining food donations, while Mayor Michael McGinn in Seattle cited an unexpected spike in food requests from immigrants and refugees, particularly from Somalia, Burma and Bhutan.
Among that requesting emergency food assistance, 51 percent were in families, 26 percent were employed, 19 percent were elderly and 11 percent were homeless.
"People who never thought they would need food are in need of help," said Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, Mo., who co-chairs a mayors' task force on hunger and homelessness."
Tonight, millions of precious American children will go to bed without any dinner. Tonight, millions of American children will shiver as they try to go to sleep because their families cannot afford any heat. How bad does child poverty have to get before we all finally admit that our economic system is completely failing many of the most vulnerable members of our society?
If you want someone to blame, you can blame Congress, the Obama administration, the Bush administration and the corrupt Wall Street bankers. But most of all, blame the Federal Reserve and the debt-based monetary system that the Fed administers. Our economy is in the midst of a long-term decline and is slowly but surely dying. Many of those that are suffering the most from this decline are children.
The following are 16 shocking statistics about child poverty in America that will break your heart.
#1 Child homelessness in the United States is now 33 percent higher than it was back in 2007. #2 According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, 1.6 millionAmerican children were living on the street, in homeless shelters or motels, or doubled up with other families last year”. #3 The percentage of children living in poverty in the United States increased from 16.9 percent in 2006 to nearly 22 percent in 2010. In the UK and in France the child poverty rate is well under 10 percent. #4 A higher percentage of American children is living in poverty today than was living in poverty back in 1975. #6 There are 10 different U.S. states where at least one out of every four babies is born to a family living in poverty. #7 Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent. #8 According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1% of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6% of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty. #9 In the United States today, more than 35 percent of all African-American children are living in poverty and more than 33 percent of all Hispanic children are living in poverty. #10 There are seven million children in the United States today that are not covered by health insurance at all. #11 Today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps. #12 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18. #13 In 2010, 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States were on food stamps. #15 In Washington D.C., the “child food insecurity rate” is 32.3%. So why are so many children suffering so badly?
Well, one reason is that millions of parents are unemployed. The government tells us that the official unemployment rate is 8.6 percent, but when you take an honest look at the numbers the truth is that the situation is much worse than that."
