buongiorno a tutti, leggo dal sole che ben 30 milioni di americani usufruiscono degli aiuti dallo stato per poter mangiare in modo decente ... riprendendo il discorso di ieri sulla volontä del cittadino usa a riprendere a spendere la vedo molto dura .... riusciranno le menti usa a risolvere qs stato di gravissima crisi ? per me solo un miracolo li farä uscire fuori da qss bordello ...
l'altroieri sulla CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/25/eveningnews/main4633408.shtml
Food Pantries: Long Lines, Short Supplies
(CBS) Maria Chavez used to make $10 an hour cleaning houses, but now her customers can't afford the luxury of hiring her help. She needs work - any work, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports.
She has two kids to feed, and doesn't want government help.
So the local food pantry is now her family's lifeline. Today was a good day - they put meat in her bag.
"There it is, now you can see it, this is the meat," she said. "Some people get so happy when they see a sign of meat."
And as the economy worsens, lines at many food pantries across the nation are fully stocked, while the cupboards are increasingly bare. Ten-thousand people showed up for an annual Thanksgiving food giveaway in Los Angeles Tuesday.
In Dallas, the number of food shelf visits is up 25 percent. It's up 33 percent in Chicago and 41 percent in Los Angeles, according to Feeding America and the Los Angeles Food Bank.
"People are really hungry and we just don't have enough food," said Beth Greenburg, a food pantry volunteer.
So they're giving out less, and some places are turning people away.
At one food bank in Los Angeles they are working 18 hour days and shipping 1 million pounds of food out to food pantries every week, but it's still not enough to meet the growing need.
"We see this as a crisis situation we don't see going away in the near future," said Michael Flood, the CEO of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.
That's because there is a new class of people living life on the line.
"It's the middle class who say to me 'I never thought I would be in this line,' and here they are," Greenburg said. "We all could be in this line."
Pamela Scott used to own a business. Now she can't get anyone to hire her.
"We're the real deal it's really happening to us. It's a reality right now," she said.
Maggie Shelley lost her husband to cancer, and at age 50 she can't find enough work to pay the bills.
"You don't look like you need to be here," Tracy said to her in the food line.
"That's exactly why I wanted to talk on camera because this is how far the economy has gone. It's affecting people like me," she said.
Thirty-six million Americans - that's one in eight - now live on the brink of hunger, at times unsure where they will get their next meal, according to Feed America.
"I used to watch movies about stuff like this and now I am that movie," Shelley said. "It's tough."
"It's hard to explain to our kids," Chavez said.
And as she began to cry, another woman in the line said: "That's right honey. You're absolutely right. I'm going through the same thing."
They're looking to better times, yet still waiting for them to arrive.