MLK “War is the enemy of the poor” !! Stop the War on the Poor !!

[J_J_]

MLK said “War is the enemy of the poor.”

· The US continues to wage war around the world, causing death and destruction, and costing $3 trillion since 2001.

· Globally $1 trillion a year on green energy could stop climate change.

· In the US, 146.4 million people, or 1 in 2, are below or near the poverty line; 20.5 m in extreme poverty (below half of the poverty line).

· Globally 1 in 3 people live on less than $2/day; a billion on less than $1.25/day – similar to what many Native American communities are forced to live on.

Impact on Mothers & Families

· The work of mothers is tokenized, devalued and unpaid. 41% of women-headed families with children live in poverty. The years we spend raising children are called zero years and we get no social security credit.

· The most impoverished mothers are penalized by welfare “reform” (TANF) – it denies that every mother is a working mother and forces mothers out to waged work.

· Welfare “reform” has increased poverty. Welfare spending has gone up while the number of families receiving welfare has gone down – from 82 % of poor families in 1979 to 25% now – and benefits have been cut to below 50% of the poverty line in all states.

· Welfare “reform” benefits professionals at the expense of families. Money that used to go to low income mothers caring for children was shifted into “services” including childcare and child welfare agencies.

· Homelessness is up 35%. Women and children are the fastest growing section of the homeless.

· Single mothers are the fastest growing population going to prison, and there are more Black men in prison than were enslaved in 1857. The US has the largest prison population in the world.


The impact on our children

Nearly 1 in 4 young children in the US lived with insufficient food in 2012.

Children are 36 % of the poor. In 2010, 16.4 million US children (22%) were poor. Black, Latino and Native American children are most likely to live in poverty.

More and more children are being detained by child welfare agencies, a $29 billion industry generating income to millions of professionals and big Pharma, and placed in foster care due to poverty, homelessness, racism, sexism.

The US is the only rich country with no federal paid maternity leave policy and no universal child or family allowance.

47.6% of immigrants and their US born children live in or near poverty. Immigration laws force separation of children from their families.

The impact on older people & people with disabilities

· In 2010, 8.3 million US people over 60 faced the threat of hunger – up 78% from a decade ago.

· In the US people with disabilities are twice as likely to live below the poverty line. 72% of women with disabilities live below the poverty line.

http://www.popularresistance.org/stop-the-war-on-the-poor-campaign/

[woo me with science]

1. K&R Thank you. One of most flagrant lies of corporate politicians, warmongers and their mouthpieces

is that we should vote for them because they will stand for women and children and minorities.

What utter garbage. What pure, unadulterated horseshit.

The effects of continued corporate warfare on human beings will be a disaster for all people, but *especially* women, children, and minorities.

I don't know how the Third Way anticipates being able to protect values of racial and gender equality by supporting candidates whose policies are dismantling the very economic and democratic systems that make it possible for them to be empowered.

I just can't wait to see the status of women and minorities in this country when we are all working for Third World wages, Hillary's trade agreements have ramped up corporate power and the ability of corporations to override our laws and protections, and dissent in the new corporate America has been crushed.

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2. "disaster for all people"- we can't let that happen

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3. Reverend Martin Luther King * Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence *

https://archive.org/details/MartinLutherKing-BeyondVietnam-1967

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4. !

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5. !!

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6. No Compromise!!...nt

Sid

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7. no more enabling war

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025510601

We have to put our foot down and say NO!

[J_J_]

8. they never apologized for giving 2 tax cuts during two wars

Instead they blamed people on welfare and unemployment for the debt they created.

And they are really mean about it, incessantly bashing people in need, diabled, veterans, hungry chidren....