I’ve dragged my feet looking this up, and it was as depressing as I thought…
Not only did they cut food stamps again in the Un-Depression, the heartless creeps gave the corporate interests lots of goodies. I really don’t know how these people sleep at night. But then again, when you have no conscience, your guilt doesn’t keep you awake…
Politicker has this up on Jerry Nadler speaking out on the republican plan of decreasing the surplus population–through even more cuts to food stamps..in a Depression…oh, wait, we’re not supposed to call it a Depression…my bad.
I’ve debated back and forth whether to write about my situation with the state. Like so many people on food stamps, it’s humiliating to have to beg for food. It’s humiliating to go to job interviews and not get that call, even though the interviewers seem to like you….then you are called lazy and unmotivated by these republican (and some Democrats) jackasses….so they’re going to “help you” not be lazy and unmotivated…
Briefly, I did get them reinstated…BUT the state pulled a number out of its arse that isn’t even reflecting of what I am bringing home.
Gah, this is hard talking about, but here goes: I made a total of $520.00 since September. The average of those months is $130.00 per month…before taxes. The state has done some fuzzy math and now deemed me making $260.00 + what my son gives me. I told them that he only helps me out if I don’t make enough to cover my supplements and vitamins (which keep me healthy until I can get this horrible poison out) and my gas and the basics like laundry detergent, soap, shampoo, etc. I really hate having to ask him for money, so if he does help out, it’s never over $100, unless the car needs work or some emergency comes up. He signed a paper stating such.
So…they decided that he helps me out *every* month, regardless, which is a lie.
Even with all the false money that I don’t have coming in, the total they have assigned is…$360.00 per month.
And they cut my food stamps because apparently I’m living high on the hog at their false total of $360. Yep.
This does not take into account taxes taken out, gas to get back and forth to work, and the weather, which has impaired my ability to work. They don’t take into account that the car needs tires, a transmission fluid change, and other maintenance just so I can make it to work. Doesn’t matter to them.
According to them, I’m making $360, with no taxes to pay and no other expenditures.
$143 is all they will give me for an entire month’s worth of groceries. And now they want to cut that even more. They spend more than that on a month’s worth of coffee.
Oh, and what was that about the automatic pay raises of Congress? You can’t “make it” on $100,000 per year?
Mitt Romney and his cronies, gutting jobs while raking in the cash….and looking the other way while people go hungry.
My post on being lazy and unmotivated here.
My other posts on food stamps here, here, and here.
My piece on the media slamming the poor ..I should note that I also saw the South Bend station doing the exact.same.thing within months after this piece aired.
So…you can’t find a job, you’ve got food stamps that don’t last a month, and you’re not supposed to beg for money…vicious, heartless, and punitive.
And when the sociopaths talk about wanting to cut food stamps because of fraud, they neglect to mention the program is one of the best run with only a 3% error rate!
Meanwhile, they look the other way at rampant fraud with the Dept. of Defense….and the welfare queens of McDonald’s and Walmart.
**edited to add: I just want to make it plain that this is not a pity post. Like I said in the previous post, we don’t want your stinking charity. We want jobs with livable wages.
…is also a right to decide what goes into our bodies. Apparently, Americans aren’t the only ones battling the bureaucrats who won’t allow us to know what food contains GMO’s…but tell us that good, natural raw milk with natural enzymes and natural Vitamin A and D (not synthetic, which is questionable) that help us digest that milk…is bad for us. Riiiight. Somebody please explain this backward thinking…’cause I don’t get it…
More here.
Additionally, the right to decide what goes into our bodies has a far-reaching aspect–the right not to be vaccinated. It never ceases to amaze me that abortion advocates will call you a nutjob for being anti-vaccine while saying that you have a right to choose to have an abortion…but not have a right to refuse vaccination. Unreal.
Millionaires in Congress continuing the “Let Them Eat Cake” campaign…and look the other way while people go hungry…
Update on this post on the power grab/information grab by Pence and his henchmen.
I found this summary of the bill– as you can see, it does not outline what information is being gathered. It does not say who is receiving this information. It does not outline how this benefits children and education. And why does the state need to provide backup when schools routinely backup their own records??
As I wrote on Diane’s blog–
It looks like Gates has his dirty little fingers in this–gathering more information for…what? or perhaps I should say…who? What kind of information are they gathering? Who will benefit from gathering this information?
The bill does not tell us. Highly suspicious.
I also found this excellent blog by Doug Martin (you might recall he posted on firedoglake).
If passed into law, HB1320 will probably hand another $3.7 million of our tax dollars to a private company which will sell off personal and confidential information of students and families to companies out to market their products and agenda to them.
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This new move is not a new one. In fact, HB1320 was probably inspired by a model bill drafted for various states by the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate sponsored bill-mill behind the scenes in Indiana and across the country bringing us school privatization, attacks on the postal service and unions, and the infamous Stand Your Ground Law.
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Yep. This has the smell of ALEC all over it.
A discussion was started on the mercury support group about a member getting her mother to move in with her and get the horrible amalgams out of her mouth so she could detox.
I was happy for her and her mother. I related to her that my mother suffered from Alzheimer’ s that I am almost positive she was a Celiac and mercury toxic. But unfortunately, my own self diagnosis came too late to help her. I tried to convince my siblings that she was Celiac. This was about six months before she passed. They were saying she was too far gone at that point, and I am still questioning that–hell it was worth a try.
The nurse at her doctor’s office practically laughed at me when I called to request the doctor investigate a possible Celiac diagnosis. I tried to explain to the nurse about the neurological connection to Celiac and mercury poisoning… she politely listened, but I could tell she thought I was a nut.
My mother continued to eat breads, cakes, and cookies. My siblings were of the opinion that it was the one pleasure she had left in life…but my thinking was that pleasure was surely causing her illness.
Another member brought up the book, Grain Brain by neurologist David Perlmutter. I haven’t read the book yet, but I did catch him on PBS yesterday.
What he said stunned me–that a *cough* scientific “fact” has been disproven: That your brain does not regenerate brain cells. It does.
Stunning–we have been taught that our brains cannot regenerate, but Dr. Perlmutter states that aerobic exercise turns on the genes responsible for brain cell regeneration. He stated that DHA (fish oil) also does the same thing. I had experienced this myself, prior to mercury poisoning–I noticed about six months after beginning aerobic exercise how much better I felt and how much better my brain functioned. I started after the birth of my first child, and it was the only exercise that I enjoyed (I always disliked sit ups, push ups, etc. …b-o-r-i-n-g. And I disliked the competitive nature of gym class. We had a teacher once that punished the side that lost–since one side always had to lose, it was a ridiculous punitive action that made me hate gym class.)
Anyway, Dr. Perlmutter was basically stating everything I had learned from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride on the GAPS diet…grains are bad for you. Period. I think Perlmutter goes into more detail about specific amounts of carbs to have…I’m just not comfortable with the mindset that one-size-fits-all. I think we are too individualistic and medicine still does not recognize that. They like to have us pigeonholed into neat little scientific packages when it has been shown, over and over again, that our bodies are unique and respond differently….as in the case of mercury poisoning…there are few symptoms that are alike for merc poisoning. That is why it is so difficult for them to diagnose–they can’t seem to wrap their brains around many different symptoms–some physical, some neurological–coming from toxin exposure.
Occupy Monsanto is organizing a protest on January 28th in Missouri — at their annual shareholders meeting:
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CREVE COEUR, MISSOURI – Every January the shareholders of Monsanto Company come from all over the world to Creve Coeur, Missouri, in order to attend the company’s annual shareholder meeting. For the first time a shareholder has introduced a “GMO Food Labeling” resolution that will be voted on at the meeting. Unlike previous years the annual shareholder meeting will not be conducted completely behind closed doors, instead members of the media and public will be able to listen online. Activists have repeatedly asked for the video of the shareholder meeting to be streamed online but Monsanto has only met activists half way and will stream only the audio of the meeting. Outside of the shareholder meeting safe food activists will gather along Olive Blvd to urge shareholders to support the shareholder resolution.
WHO: Adam Eidinger, Monsanto Activist Shareholder, GMO Free Midwest Coalition, “Are We Eating Fishy Food?” GMO Art Cars, and Concerned Citizens
WHAT: Protest at Monsanto Annual Shareholder Meeting to Support Vote on “GMO Food Labeling”
WHEN: Noon to 3pm, January 28, 2014
WHERE: Olive Blvd at Monsanto’s East Campus Entrance, Creve Coeur, MO
If the shareholder resolution passes, Monsanto will be required to work with the Food and Drug Administration to label genetically engineered foods nationally. Monsanto’s executives oppose the resolution, but shareholders, many of whom are represented by faceless mutual funds, will have the final say on the chemical giant’s GMO labeling position.
You can read the text of the “GMO Food Labeling” shareholder resolution:
http://occupy-monsanto.com/new-monsanto-shareholder-resolution-supports-gmo-labeling/
Another shareholder resolution to be voted on at the company’s annual meeting is sponsored by activist investor John Harrington and deals with Monsanto’s potential liability to organic farmers. The protests at Monsanto will be the first since last October when more than 500 activists descended on the company’s headquarters for the March Against Monsanto.
For more information: www.occupy-monsanto.com
Dispatches from the underclass has a post up with an interview of a West Virginia mom concerned about the water and the effects on her children.
As she brings up, they are already dealing with toxins from the coal industry (mercury, lead, arsenic), and now this….their water is brown.
The scene from JAWS comes to mind where they tell everyone that it’s safe to go back into the water…um-hmmm….
And the sad thing, besides endangering these folks’ health and not knowing what this chemical does to people…is that West Virginia is one of the most beautiful states I’ve ever been in. The mountains are sooo gorgeous.
(Most of you have read this stuff before, so it will be boring to you. I’m posting for folks who are new to this info.)
Dr. Andrew Hall Cutler, whose protocol I follow, spoke out on the deliberate act of confusing the public (and even the medical profession) about mercury and autism.
He referred to this paper, by M. Catherine Desoto, PhD, and Robert Hitlan, PhD. , that appeared in the Journal on Child Neurology, Nov. 2007.
I know that when I was really sick, I did not want to leave my home. I wanted no contact with people at all. As I started to get better with chelation, I wanted to be around people–I just didn’t want to talk to anyone—this was more pronounced in new situations or with people I was unfamiliar with (that kind of goes with learning new things–if I learned something before being mercury poisoned, I’ve had an easier time learning a new aspect of it. If, however, it was totally new, my eyes would glaze over from being overwhelmed.)
I still have autistic symptoms when I’m chelating–don’t want to talk (or write a blog). This proves me beyond a doubt that there is a connection between mercury and autism.
As the authors of this paper explore, mercury exposure does not necessarily correlate with presence of mercury in the hair. Dr. Cutler had said that the ability to excrete mercury is an individual thing, with some of us being poor at mercury/heavy metal elimination. Again, the Irish are particularly susceptible to this as we lack the gene to excrete mercury properly. Gluten intolerance also allows more mercury to enter the blood stream via “leaky gut” (holes in the gut caused by inflammation from the inability to digest the gluten)—a double whammy.
Dr. Cutler also mentioned something that happened in 1972 in Iraq: many were poisoned by ethylmercury in grain (reports that it is methylmercury are wrong, according to Dr. Cutler). Boy, there’s a study to end all studies of how these folks who survived and reproduced, passing mercury damaged DNA on to their offspring and how that affected their personalities/level of tolerance.
As I read about the seed sown in millions of acres, I’m wondering about the contamination of the soil?
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In other health news, the FDA has come out with a lame warning on acetominophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. An Eli Lilly researcher once told me that acetominophen damages liver cells. Ibuprofen damages kidney cells. I don’t think there is a *safe* amount to take. You have to weigh the options–how bad do you really feel? Bad enough to kill off some liver or kidney cells? This is why people need to be given the information and let them make up their own minds how much they are willing to risk their health…
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