ISIS Forces 1.3 Million Homeless Children to Starve, Live in Bug Infested Motels

[J_J_]

A record number of homeless students were enrolled in US public schools last year, according to new numbers released Monday by the Department of Education.

The data – which most experts say underreport the actual number of homeless children in America – showed that nearly 1.3 million homeless children and teens were enrolled in schools in the 2012-13 school year, an 8 percent increase from the previous school year.

“The new data means that a record number of kids in our schools and communities are spending restless nights in bed-bug-infested motels and falling more behind in school by the day because they’re too tired and hungry to concentrate," said Bruce Lesley, president of the First Focus Campaign for Children, in a statement Monday. "This is a desperate situation, and the first step we must take is to get homeless students the housing assistance they need today by passing the Homeless Children and Youth Act.”

http://www.adn.com/article/20140923/record-number-homeless-children-enrolled-us-public-schools


Would our leaders care about America's homeless children if they could blame it on ISIS?

Our 'leaders' have proven time and time again, they don't give a damn about Americans,.

They don't even give a damn about children, elderly or even Veterans of their wars based on lies.


And yet, we are expected to believe that they care so much about Iraqis and Syrians that we must spend our dwindling national wealth to eradicate ISIS...to help them.


Is there anyone in the real world actually buying this warmongering bullshit, and that these murdering assholes care so much they want to bomb people?

[malthaussen]

1. Welcome to DU.

A similar question has been asked in re the environmental "accidents" that have tainted water and poisoned citizens -- if a "terrorist" group pulled that kind of thing, we'd be all over it, but since it's a corporation, ah well, business as usual. Oh, and a $50,000 fine.


-- Mal

[Louisiana1976]

2. I think only our leaders and warhawk Rethugs are buying this warmongering bullshit.

[upaloopa]

3. I work with county homeless grants

There is a program called Continuum of Care. Those are groups of HUD sponsored programs for homeless families in various communities.
The Fiscal Year 2014 amount from HUD for this one program for homeless families is $1.83 billion. Not much compared to our wars but just to say some of us are working on the problem.

[reddread]

7. they suck

people who feed from the money the problem generates have NO interest in solving the problem.
quite the contrary. there are solutions, mitigations and responses that dont require a billion or more dollars.

[upaloopa]

8. I don 't get you.

Can you explain?

[reddread]

12. continuum is right

the federal money homeless people bring in is hardly an incentive to solve the problem if you subsist on that flow.
there are many ways to skin a cat. money wasters unwilling to stem the flow are not the ideal solution.

[Paladin]

4. I guess we get to start building new schools for Syrian kids, next.

That's how these sorts of things go: new schools in the distant countries in which we wage war, and our own kids just have to make do.

[J_J_]

11. How can we let innocent children in a foreign country suffer?

Strangely these same 'compassionate' people also care nothing of the millions we killed last time, or the depleted uranium left behind giving all the babies birth defects.

[grahamhgreen]

5. 1.3 million children homeless.... But we have money for war.

[GeorgeGist]

6. USUS

[Avalux]

9. They don't care about Americans, Syrians, Iraqis, or anyone else.

All they care about is $$$$$. War is a money making machine.

[NCTraveler]

10. But they have cured homelessness in the ME. They get a pass from me. nt.

[J_J_]

13. Why are the numbers of homeless school children rising when we are told the economy has improved?

I guess those kids should have thought to put some money in the stock market if they wanted to experience the recovery.

[J_J_]

14. More Than 48 Million Americans Live In Poverty, Census Bureau Reports

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014920745