They told us the cost of living was so high because of gas prices

[J_J_]

14. also speculation on our commodities driving costs for excess profits

But don't ask why the people are poor....


Pope Francis has been labelled a communist by some hard right elements in the US after denouncing the ‘tyranny of capitalism’, calling the wealth made from financial speculation as intolerable and saying speculation on commodities was a scandal that compromised the poor’s access to food.


It is time for us to start demanding a real discussion about what is happening to people in this country.

25% of children in the US are starving!

Somebody stop them for God's sake!!

Child poverty in America is at its highest point in 20 years, putting millions of children at increased risk of injuries, infant mortality, and premature death, according to a policy analysis published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

As the U.S. emerges from the worst recession since the Great Depression, 25% of children don’t have enough food to eat and 7 million kids still don’t have health insurance, the analysis says. Even worse: Five children die daily by firearms, and one dies every seven hours from abuse or neglect.

“It shouldn’t be this hard for kids to grow and thrive in the world’s richest, most powerful nation,”

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-child-poverty-20141021-story.html