Excellent
article! Thank you Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!! Blessed are the
courageous and wise truth-tellers! They embody Love.
And
the contrasting of those who are telling the truth and fighting for
the well-being of humans, other beings, and the planet with Trump and
with those who are corporate democrats, corporate republicans,
corporate media propagandists, and other wealthy special interests
illuminates the stark and overwhelming difference between those who
are committed to a just and caring world and those who are fighting
with everything they have to block it from being.
And
I am absolutely outraged each time I hear NPR or CNN or any corporate
funded mainstream media source say that we "have a strong
economy" or we have "low unemployment rates." I am
absolutely outraged by their sickening denial and brainwashing and
toxic propaganda that outright lies to us over and over and over
again! Don't they see all the people living in tents???
And
in lying about reality and real human beings and the state of the
Earth is like saying that the more than 40 million Americans who are
living in poverty, are being poisoned, are suffering and dying don't
matter, don't exist, and their suffering doesn't count because the
freaking stock marker is doing great. Pisses me off! This is
propaganda that is complicit with the predatory capitalists and that
causes so much suffering, brainwashing, delusions, depression,
dehumanization, and death. It is evil in its core. Just evil.
And
their pervasive and insidious lies are pushing uninformed Americans
to align with the greed and heartlessness of the oligarchs rather
than with the political revolution to overthrow them and build a
world which works for all. Herbert Schiller is among the many strong
voices who illuminate how it is that we are led accept that which
benefits the few to the expense of all of the rest of us —
https://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2019/12/herbert-schiller-how-did-thinking-that.html.
AND,
gratefully, more and more of us are waking up and saying NO MORE!! NO
MORE to the lies and propaganda, NO MORE to the politicians who've
sold their souls to wealthy corporate donors, NO MORE to the ideology
of domination and the patriarchal neoliberal predatory capitalist
system that its wedded with, NO MORE to vast injustice and oppressing
and killing people for profit, NO MORE to endless wars and militarism
and the military industrial complex, no more to drill baby drill and
the deadly fossil fuel industry, NO MORE to the immoral and
insatiable greed of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, NO
MORE to the Jim Crow brutality of the criminal injustice system and
the prison industrial complex, NO MORE to insurmountable student
debts and cutting off kids from continuing their education, NO MORE
to the cruelty of the animal agricultural industry and all the
horrifying ways that we treat other beings, NO MORE to the poisoning
of our Earth! NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE!!!
We're
done! And we're choosing to unite in the revolutionary movements to
change our world to one where life matters, where life is protected
and cherished and held with kindness and caring and reverence. The
New Enlightenment is upon us! May we come together by the millions
here in America and worldwide. We're all related, all family, all in
this together, and all needed!
Lets
turn all of our outrage into our collective awakening and actively
participate together in this paradigm shift and evolutionary leap
into birthing a New Story — one which works for everyone! — Molly
"We
do not want to recognize the level of poverty in this country because
if we did, it would be a national scandal."
Calling
on her fellow lawmakers to pass legislation she put forward last year
to better recognize—and move to eradicate—poverty in the United
States, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez testified before her own House
committee Wednesday about the U.S. government's willful failure to
understand how many Americans are living in destitution.
Ocasio-Cortez
joined several anti-poverty campaigners in testifying at
a hearing regarding
the effects of Trump administration policies on child poverty,
hunger, homelessness, and healthcare. The first-term New York
Democrat argued that the government's formula for calculating
poverty—used long
before President
Donald Trump was in office—makes it impossible to account for the
financial devastation millions of Americans face.
"The
current level of the poverty line has simply been calculated by the
price of minimum dietary requirements times three,"
Ocasio-Cortez said. "The current poverty line assumes that you
have a spouse at home full-time, taking care of your children. The
current poverty line assumes that you don't really have any
significant healthcare costs. All of this is wrong."
The
failure to account for how many children are growing up without
sufficient food, secure housing, and enough resources to pay for
basic needs—and the subsequent failure to provide sufficient
welfare services—has left at least 40 million people in poverty,
the congresswoman said.
"We
cannot go another year with kids not getting food that they
need—losing parents because they can't afford healthcare,"
said Ocasio-Cortez. "This is a moral wrong, and for children to
lose their parents because they can't afford insulin or chemotherapy
in what we proudly call the richest country in the world, is a moral
injustice and a moral outrage."
As Common
Dreams reported,
the United Nations' top expert on poverty issued a scathing
report in
2018, accusing the Trump administration of driving millions of
Americans toward the point of "ruination" by cutting
government assistance while lavishing the wealthiest people in the
country with a $1.5 trillion tax cut.
The
Oversight Committee's hearing came eight months after the Trump
administration said
it
may change how inflation is calculated to even further reduce the
number of Americans who are considered eligible for federal
healthcare and housing assistance.
Ocasio-Cortez
testified on the same day that the National Center for Homeless
Education released
a study showing
that the number of public school students who are homeless has
exploded by 15% in just the past three years, reaching more than 1.5
million—the highest number in more than a decade.
"America
is in a state of denial about the level of poverty in this country,"
Ocasio-Cortez said.
After
testifying in the hearing, the congresswoman joined her colleagues on
the committee in questioning the other witnesses and discussing her
proposal for the Recognizing Poverty Act, which, she said, lawmakers
would only oppose if they wish to continue covering up the truth
about poverty and economic inequality in the United States.
"It
doesn't even direct us to expand social programs. We're not even
there yet, we're just talking about recognizing poverty, and there's
resistance to doing that," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Why? I
believe that we do not want to recognize the level of poverty in this
country because if we did, it would be a national scandal."
Should
Ocasio-Cortez's proposal pass, the congresswoman said, "We will
have to force ourselves to acknowledge that our systems have failed.
And that we are not doing enough by our own people in a democracy
that is supposed to be by the people and for the people, to serve the
people of the United States of America."
Please
go here for the full article and videos:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/05/america-state-denial-about-level-poverty-country-says-ocasio-cortez
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