Redmond Washington is atown outside Seattle. I live 3 miles from the headquarters of Microsoft. Not far is Lake Washington. To have a home on the lake there; you would have tohave money like Bill Gates. He has his home right on the lake. I have seen it from the lake and its a mansion. Presidents come to this neighborhood to raise money.
A few short miles away, your in another world. Houses that were built 50 years ago.
Roofs that need fixing, food banks that are always short of food. My neighborhood once was middle class now would be lower middle class. A hill close to my house has a gated
community. Signs are up,"Private Road". It is a county road so I ran up the hill once and was stopped by an angry neighbor. "did you see the sign?"he asked. I answered but I was running on a County road not on any ones property. He started to explain
something but I was running and yelled "SUE ME.'
My neighbor across the street has Cancer and I found out why she goes and gets bad food from the stores. Her family is hungry and foodstamps(EPT) doesn"tcover her food bill. Her food allotment has been reduced. She has plenty of food now thanks to a neighbor and myself.
I found out three more families are hungry on my block.
Seattle Magazine says there were 8.6 million visits to the foodbank in our county last year. one in 5 children were hungry in the same county as Microsoft.I am also told 2013 will be even worse.
All people who care need to lobby Congress to increase Food Stamps not decrease the amount of food. Most people who get help are Women with children or the elderly or people laid off.
I know asking for more food for the poor sounds like a fantasy. We on the left have to be clear what we want. We then need to find out who is hungry around us and feed them.
I am going to Microsoft with a dollar amount in mind I want them to give to the King County Food Banks. I want them and Amazon (who also have offices here) to buy food trucks and have people knock on every door in the County to make sure no one is hungry.
Was their a movie once that said,"I am mad as Hell and I an not going to take it anymore?"
Congress will yell, lets go feed somebody!
Today,will
you stop
to help
someone
in need,
or will you turn away?
-Unkown