Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Nov-07-10 02:07 PM
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Agencies that help the homeless struggle to survive and maintain services
Nonprofits struggle to survive and maintain services
By Jonathan O'Connell
When job losses and foreclosures began to mount in the recession, leaders of many local charities knew it was time to push their organizations to provide more -- more beds to the homeless, more opportunities for the unemployed, more meals to the growing number of hungry families showing up on their doorsteps.
A spike in need was coming and they were going to step up and meet it, regardless of the funding shortages that may result from the economic tailspin. They could worry about that later.
But now it is later -- nearly three years after the recession began in December 2007 -- and a new survey of nonprofit human service providers shows that nearly half of those in the District, Maryland and Virginia ran a deficit last year.
Many of the groups whose services protected families during the recession may not make it through the downturn themselves. Some already have not.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
Republicans claim we don't need "entitlements" because churches and the "private sector" will take care of the disabled and underprivileged. It doesn't appear that these type organizations will have the resources to keep their doors open, much less care for anyone.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9506682Yet a broke govt can cover all these costs.
Jkid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Nov-07-10 02:11 PM
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1. There's a reason government exist
Because non-profit's and volunteerism can't handle everything.
Yeah it plainly states that in our constitution right next to the part that says abortion is a right.
Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Nov-07-10 02:17 PM
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2. ours can sure take care of their wars...
for now
That is a constitutional duty of the federal govt. Not giving you money for pot and cheetos.
defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Nov-07-10 02:22 PM
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3. Not restoring the Reagan and Bush tax cuts for the rich is criminal .....
this is purposeful impoverishment --
and Obama and Dems have done little to address it since '06 --
How in the hell is people keeping their own money criminal?
socialshockwave (46 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Nov-07-10 02:25 PM
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5. But according to the Republicrats...
there's jobs out there, and the poor are just lazy and entitled.
Idiots. How can you survive on a job that pays you less then your rent or less then enough to survive?
You know what Idiot, my job doesn't pay enough for me to survive on yet I still work every day.
