Despite his Wall Street, big business, Big Tech, and billionaire donations, Biden has attempted to portray himself as a small-town fighter from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
US food banks and homeless shelters struggle to meet record demand ahead of Thanksgiving
With
the Thanksgiving holiday less than two weeks away, food banks and homeless
shelters across the United States are struggling to meet the growing demand
caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Dallas, Texas, thousands of people
lined up in their cars in what has been described as the largest mobile food
distribution in history. The North Texas Food Banks handed out 7,000 turkeys
and 600,000 pounds of food on Saturday. Organizers said it was enough to feed
25,000 people.
The state of Washington has seen the
number of people who rely on food banks double from one million to 2.2 million
this year. Linda Nageotte, the CEO of Food Lifeline, told the Seattle Times
that she expects that “by the end of this year one in five Washingtonians could
be facing hunger.”
The
pandemic has also placed an extra burden on food bank workers, who now need to
prepare and box food packages together before they can be distributed. It is
labor intensive work that is even more difficult during a health crisis. In an
attempt to lighten the load on food banks, the Washington National Guard has
sent 550 soldiers to 26 distribution sites to help.
In Rochester, New York, the food bank
Foodlink is working to feed a line of 50-100 people on any given day. The
organization Dimitri House, which operates a food pantry and homeless shelter
in Rochester, has had similar issues and has also decided to prepare meals
ahead of time and distribute them to families for pick up.
Laurie Prizel, the executive director
for Dimitri House, told ABC13 WHAM that “we’re getting a large number of
working poor individuals coming through as well, not just the typical somebody
on a fixed income trying to survive. It’s people who are holding down two jobs
or lost their jobs. We’re saving the average family at least $100 on a
Thanksgiving meal, and it’s allowing at least the families to come together.”
Every year, thousands of volunteers in Albany, New York work to feed thousands of people in need. This year, however, the Equinox Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner has found a creative solution to the problem of social distancing. Instead of hosting a large event, the organization raised $100,000 to deliver meals directly to the homes of people in need. To accomplish this the organizers will work with restaurants to purchase and prepare food, enabling them to feed needy people and support local businesses in the process.
In Santa Rosa, California, the
Redwood Empire Food Bank has done what it can to keep up with the significantly
higher demand than usual. During a normal year, the food bank would hand out
around 11 million meals. This year, however, Redwood has already produced 22
million meals.
The wealth disparity in Santa Rosa,
55 miles north of San Francisco, in California’s wine country, has been rising
for years, resulting in a poverty rate of 11.5 percent. According to the Census
Bureau, the top 5 percent of households make an average of $331,000 a year,
with the bottom 20 percent making just $16,000. It is no wonder that food banks
in this area would see such high demand for food assistance.
The San Francisco Bay Area has some
of the highest levels of income inequality in the country. In San Francisco
County the top 5 percent earn an average of more than $800,000 a year while the
bottom 20 percent average just over $16,000. The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank
is currently providing food aid to 55,000 households—nearly double its
pre-pandemic total—and is planning to give away 1,000 turkeys to families in
need on Thanksgiving.
Similarly, the Food Bank of the
Hudson Valley has reported a 53 percent increase in demand in Westchester
County, New York. Food shipments used to arrive twice a month, now they come
once a week and are still barely keeping up with the need.
Westchester is often mistaken as a
wealthy county with pockets of poverty, but it is actually the opposite.
Islands of ultra-wealthy neighborhoods inflate the general cost of living,
making otherwise typical working class wages barely enough to survive on.
The pandemic has made it especially difficult to operate homeless shelters and offer large communal Thanksgiving meals for the homeless. Restrictive capacity requirements to limit the number of people interacting indoors have forced shelters to limit the amount of beds they can fill.
In many cases, shelters and food aid
organizations have moved their events outdoors to compensate for the
restrictions on indoor events. In Charlottesville, Virginia, the organization
Volunteers from Charlottesville is making “blessing bags” that will include a
Thanksgiving meal and materials to help people survive the winter.
After almost canceling the event, the
organizers decided to push through and host it outdoors at Washington Park,
where they plan to hand out 100 bags the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Albany’s Capital City Rescue Mission
in New York has done its best to continue with indoor activities throughout the
pandemic. Doing its best to maintain social distancing and mask wearing, the
organization has continued sheltering and feeding those in need and expects to
feed thousands this holiday season.
The need to provide meals to
struggling families and the homeless grows every year, but the economic crisis
triggered by the pandemic has placed a demand on charity organizations that can
barely be kept up with. Such immense social distress, even as Wall Street soars
to record highs and trillions in bailouts have been handed over to the banks
and corporations, is a damning indictment of the capitalist system and the two
parties who represent it, the Democrats and Republicans.
Without the intervention of the
working class to shut down non-essential production and demand full pay for
workers to stay home in order to suppress the pandemic, the need will only grow
as the ruling class continues to pursue its murderous “herd immunity” policy,
which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans and pushed millions into
poverty.
…or will it be continued non-enforcement? No matter, Wall Street will write it!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/bidens-plan-to-fix-americas-jobless.html
THE BIDEN AMNESTY - Migration also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities, ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in the fields, shortchange labor in the cities, impose tight control and pay cuts on American professionals, corral technological innovation by minimizing the employment of American graduates, undermine labor rights, and even redirect progressive journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s priorities. NEIL MUNRO
WHY DOES JOE BIDEN WANT TO IMPORT THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS?
Biden has pledged a staggering 700 percent increase in refugees from the most violent terrorist hotspots anywhere on earth. RAYMOND IBRAHIM
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/murdering-muslims-every-day-these.html
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised on Wednesday that Muslim Americans would serve at “every level” of his administration. In a video message to civil rights organization Muslim Advocates, Biden repeated his pledge to repeal the Trump administration's travel ban on his first day in office. The former vice president added that he would push for legislation to fight a rise in hate crimes in the United States, according to media reports. “As president, I'll work with you to rip the poison of hate from our society, honor your contributions and seek your ideas,” Biden said in the video address. “My administration will look like America, Muslim Americans serving at every level,” he added. RAYMOND IBRAHIM
THE MUSLIMS KNOW HOW GOOD OBOMB WAS TO THEM!
Biden’s Biggest Fundraisers are Tied to Islamic Terrorists
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/why-do-muslim-terrorist-love-joe-biden.html
The Iran Lobby, the Pakistan Lobby, and the Muslim Brotherhood are funding Biden.
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
Judge May Add 1 Million Migrants to the DACA Work Permit Program
A federal judge is hinting he will add another one million illegal migrants to the work permit and amnesty program created by President Barack Obama in 2012.
On Saturday, New York federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis struck down President Donald Trump’s July curbs on Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The judge said he blocked the July curbs because they were signed by Trump’s deputy, Chad Wolf, whom he deemed improperly appointed to the job.
The judge also invited the lawyers to submit “motions for relief [benefits] in light of the court’s decision.” The lawyers will ask the judge to add the one million illegals to Obama’s giveaway of work permits, Social Security numbers, and residency approvals.
Business to Supreme Court: Ending DACA Amnesty Will Boost Americans’ Wages https://t.co/BJClKWdaXX
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 5, 2019
Wolf was designated as the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in November 2019. So far, he has not been confirmed by the Senate. Wolf signed the curbs after a series of lower court judges — and then the U.S. Supreme Court decided in June — that Trump’s 2017 cancellation of the work permit program was legal but insufficiently justified.
The curbs signed by Wolf barred the acceptance of new illegals and also trimmed the duration of work permits held by the migrants, nearly all of whom were brought to the county by illegal-migrant parents.
If higher judges uphold the win by the lawyers at the Justice Action Center, more than one million younger illegals could get work permits via the 2012 DACA rule — even though millions of Americans now lack jobs or must work for low wages amid a flood of legal immigrant and illegal migrant labor.
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— Karen Tumlin (@KarenTumlin) November 14, 2020
The decision was touted by Mark Zuckerberg’s advocacy group, FWD.us, which was created in 2013 to help pass the “Gang of Eight” amnesty and cheap labor bill.
The Trump admin *must* immediately stop resisting the Federal courts. DACA 2012 is the law of the land. Refusing to follow a court order is extremely serious.
Open DACA to new applicants tomorrow morning.
If they don’t, they should face a congressional subpoena at 5pm. https://t.co/k7ZnsCIMZy
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) November 15, 2020
Trump’s lawyers will likely appeal the new legal decision, which dodged the issue of whether any president has the authority to award work permits without direct approval from Congress.
A DHS statement said that Wolf has been properly appointed to the acting DHS job, and said:
Garaufis’ ruling is another example of an activist judge substituting his own policy preference for those of the Trump Administration. His reasoning has already been thoroughly discredited, and his unwillingness to seriously engage on the facts or the law is disappointing. DHS is exploring its options to ensure its review of DACA continues as intended.
If Trump’s recent curbs are struck down, he can reissue the same DACA curbs under his direct authority — or else the judge may apply Obama’s 2012 rules to the extra one million migrants.
Roughly 650,000 illegals now hold work permits under the program,
At least 30,000 additional DACA beneficiaries have managed to gain green cards via their program.
At least 300,000 additional children and youths have come across the southern border since 2011, including many who were admitted by Obama’s policy of loosening border controls. Trump, in contrast, blocked the inflow in early 2020.
Obama’s offer of work permits applied to illegal migrants who arrived before they turned 16 and yet are younger than 30, have lived in the United States for at least five years, have graduated from Americans’ high-schools, and have not been “convicted of a felony offense, a significant misdemeanor offense, multiple misdemeanor offenses, or otherwise pose a threat to national security or public safety.”
Joe Biden has promised to continue the DACA program.
The DACA program has been bitterly defended by progressives and by business groups, such as the FWD.us group of investors, partly because the program helps Democrats protect the growing population of illegal immigrants in the United States. The furor over the program also keeps media reporters from spotlighting other aspects of the nation’s cheap-labor economic policies, such as the resident population of at least 1.3 million white-collar visa workers.
The Justice Action Center lawyers are touted by FWD.us.
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