I am so sad right now. I need to vent and them take a break for a while.

[TBF]

38. I am very sorry about your daughter and this part of your OP made me cringe --

" It made me cry to listen to the discussion on MSNBC about the reasons the RW want to cut food stamps and how they use disinformation to get their white constituents to continue to vote against their own interests and make them believe that most of the people on food stamps are shiftless blacks who just want a free handout from the government. The truth of the matter is that many, many more whites use food stamps and the majority of them are workers who don't earn enough to support their families without help. I tell you this really hurts that there are people who are so selfish and racist that they would rather not help people who really need the help because they might be black or Hispanic. It's even more hurtful to know that there are men and women out there whose sole purpose for seeking elected office is to be able to do just what they did."

I live in Houston, TX. Whether Latino, Black or Caucasian - there are tons of hard-working people in my city. Service workers, refinery workers, gardeners, food service - you name it. The "shiftless" workers, as far as I'm concerned, are the holier than thou bankers who robbed this country and got away with their "too big to fail" threats. I wish they had let them crash and put the top guys/gals in jail.

And, frankly, I don't care if someone is considered "shiftless" by someone or not - it should NOT be ok to decide people are just not going to be sheltered/fed. Period.

After TPP passes and millions more jobs are lost we are going to have that many more people out on the street and hungry.

This is horrifying.