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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The problem isn't that people in dire need of assistance aren't looking for work, it is that they already have two jobs and still cannot afford basic needs. Corporations have found it easier to spend money on <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>politicians</SPAN></SPAN> keeping wages low than to pay workers a wage that they can subsist on. It is easier to let the government house and feed your workers than to pay them enough to do it on their own. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Working full time doesn't mean you get what you need to survive. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Do the math, a wage of $7.50 an hour, 19% federal and state income tax, 6% tax on all food and items purchased, and you take home $5.65 a hour, x 35 hours and you get $197 a week to live on. That isn't going to cover your living expenses. Medical alone can easily run $200-$1000 a month. Food can be $200-$500, and housing is gonna be around $500 per adult plus <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>utilities</SPAN></SPAN>. Without assistance, most lower income families would not make it. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I really do not understand WHY people get so upset about hard working poor people accepting a few dollars of assistance to feed their children when we have large greedy corporations sucking 100s of billions off the taxpayers, slashing jobs, stealing houses, and refusing to pay workers a living wage? Where is the focus here? Paying a person $7.25 an hour for their time and labor is theft and <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>exploitation</SPAN></SPAN> of the worker. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan Arnold</SPAN></div>
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not.<BR>Roger<BR>-----Original message---<BR>Subject: Isn't it ironic.........<BR><BR><BR>The SNAP/Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever.<BR><BR>Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed The Animals." This is because the animals may grow dependent on handouts and not learn to take care of themselves.<BR><BR>Thus <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>endeth</SPAN> today’s Lesson.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT id=yiv1566376005ecxrole_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=3 face=Arial><B>Subject: </B> Isn't it ironic.........<BR><BR><BR>The SNAP/Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever.<BR><BR>Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed The Animals." This is because the animals may grow dependent on handouts and not learn to take care of themselves.<BR><BR>Thus <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>endeth</SPAN> today’s Lesson.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=3 face=Arial></FONT></FONT>
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