And this is the country that the world looks to for guidance and inspiration? Has the world gone mad? Everything is for show. Scratch the surface a bit and there is nothing - at least not for the average American but of course, plenty for the rich. No conscience...only me, me, me.

As the one woman says at the end of the video..."we need a social revolution", which is something I've been advocating for a long time - and not just in the US...throughout the entire world.

Just got our power in my neighborhood back on after several hours. It went out just as I was about to begin fixing dinner, so I had nothing to eat that didn't need to be cooked. In addition, my cf was out of battery and of course, my land line wouldn't work w/o electricity, so it was visiting time with the neighbors out on the curb where at least a lovely breeze was playing and I meant to get my camp cot out of the garage and just spend the night outside...but it only opens with electricity!!!!!

I held out for a few hours, but the hunger pangs began setting in, so I tossed my purse into the car and took off for the nearest Kroger's grocery store, which I knew stayed open all night, found something to eat and almost started to rip it open before paying for it. It's a good thing I didn't or I might'a spent the night in jail because my wallet wasn't in my purse! I asked the manager if he could help and he said NO,..almost HELL NO. Then it occurred to me that the wallet might'a fallen out when I tossed my purse in the car, which, thankfully, is what happened, so I was able to get something to eat after all. But it made it very clear to me that you are fuct if you have no $ at all and are starving in this country, and the sandwich I'd decided on from the deli was all of $3.50. I've traveled in some really poor countries where I did not have the correct $ because of just having crossed a border and been fed by people who had virtually nothing and had no way to repay them except with profound gratitude. I was so hungry that I wasn't thinking straight and hadn't yet thought that the wallet might be in the car; also, that if it was at home, I'd never find it with no electricity and promised I'd come back tomorrow and pay for the sandwich...no dice.

No , this cant be, hunger in America.

No , Regan said that government is to big, he put more money in the pockets of corporations and the wealthy.

We all know how they like to control money, right down to how they disperse it to their favorite charitable organizations.

The elite feel so good when its their millions that they don't pay taxes on , that help poor people.

What about the Canadian social system.

Lets see, there you collect a living wage unemployment check till you get a job, and trust me , its a lot more then 275 a week.

Socialized medical care, no worry's there.

And a social security retirement system that pays a minimum of 24000 a year, which Canada has deemed the absolute minimum you can live on.

But don't worry , we dont need systems like that here, we have rich people and rich corporations that will help with high paying jobs and good medical insurance.

Greed and Jesus will save us, you will see.

The government’s inability to respond to the creeping disasters we mostly face these days is especially alarming because it is already too late to avoid a slow-motion human and social disaster. It is bad enough to be jobless for a few weeks; it is much worse being unemployed for months or years. Yet that’s exactly what is happening to millions of Americans. Many of the unemployed have lost their savings, their homes and more. How many more yet to come? But neither Congress nor the Obama administration shows any inclination to do what needs to be done. There us no sense of urgency, only a fierce urgency of whenever.

Barbara Ehrenreich [A Homespun Safety Net/NY Times/ July 11, 2009] writes: “If nothing else, the recession is serving as a stress test for the American safety net. How prepared have we been for sudden and violent economic dislocations of the kind that leave millions homeless and jobless? So far, despite some temporary expansions of food stamps and unemployment benefits by the Obama administration, the recession has done for the government safety net pretty much what Hurricane Katrina did for the Federal Emergency Management Agency: it’s demonstrated that you can be clinging to your roof with the water rising, and no one may come to helicopter you out. “

Read her story of Kristen and Joe Parente.

Ms. Ehrenreich says, “I’ve never encountered the kind of “culture of poverty” imagined by the framers of welfare reform, but there is a tradition among the American working class of mutual aid, no questions asked. My father, a former miner, advised me as a child that if I ever needed money to “go to a poor man.” When I worked at low-wage jobs in the 1990s, I was amazed by the generosity of my co-workers, who offered me food, help with my work and even once a place to stay. Such informal networks — and random acts of kindness — put the official welfare state, with its relentless suspicions and grudging outlays, to shame. BUT there are limits to the generosity of relatives and friends. Poverty itself can deplete entire social networks, leaving no one to turn to. While the affluent suffer from “compassion fatigue,” the poor simply run out of resources.”

Unemployment is rising. Foreclosures are surging. The need for expanded relief and recovery efforts is compelling. Some 50 to 60 million Americans, roughly one in five, are hungry. How is it possible in the land of plenty? And what does the recession reveal about America's social safety net? So why exactly is the Obama administration waiting to act? If we can’t get action to head off this disaster now, what will it take? There are a lot of our fellow citizens who no longer have a roof to cling to. Another Katrina moment. Heck of a job President Obama and Congress!

If we listen to those we talk to we will find out there are people we personally know to help. Let's start helping each other. It's obvious the government can't or will not be able to fix this problem.

How many people have elderly parents, aunts and uncles who can't feed themselves? Start looking at one's own family. Ask your parents and relatives if they are making it. I'm suprised how many adult children are not aware that their own parents can't feed themselves.

Let's start family self help. Are there 25 million people in our country with no relatives. In the early fifties relatives piled in and stayed together and supported one another. Let's get our family safety nets going. I'm not proposing something I am not doing. For nine months I've had relatives living with me until they got on their feet again.
I fed them and sheltered them. They left a few weeks ago because they got another job and housing. Otherwise they would have been another part of those statistics.
Let's help one another. Start with your own family.

Let the government help those who really have no one else to help them.