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To: long-gone who wrote (68406)	4/28/2001 10:57:33 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

It is a long article i took portions of it and the many people live below the poverty level which is about 17.000 here. Somehow forms to get food stamps have evolved to ten pages long and many people can not even fill out the forms. I see someone is aware and someone gives to the food banks and pantries. The question to me becomes have we abolished poverty in these last few years or have we made it just more difficult to be impoverished and ask for help? Have we created numerically speaking less poverty and not addressed the cause of poverty which normally falls into unable to obtain a higher paying job due education status. I sometimes wonder because there is one huge spread here in the price of property here in LA do we fear to move elsewhere to less expensive property for fear we will understand the difficult position many others life face? Is it that the numerical category can now be a visual impact that creates a picture non pleasing to the eyes? In Los Angeles County, food stamp rolls have dropped 36% since 1995, according to the Food Policy Advocates, even as local food banks and pantries have been struggling to keep up with growing demand. The pantry at the Harbor Interfaith Shelter in San Pedro has recorded a sharp increase in families needing food, said Executive Director Mary I. Gimenez-Caulder. The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, which distributes food to 960 charities that feed about 350,000 people each week, also has seen a rising demand over the last year, said spokesman Darren Hoffman. Many of those requesting handouts are working people who have left the welfare system and have found low-paying jobs but are unaware that they still may qualify for food stamps, Gimenez-Caulder said. In oblivion i think to myself one mother three children annual salary of somewhere 11,000.00 Then I want to reduce the social service program to nil. Allow deductions for food donations for betterment of man on both the corporate and private level. Please reduce the size of government if services are available to assist and assist is not available but to the savvy who know how to take advantage of. Takes these funds to educate those who create an enormous income. Help them move out of their glass towers and take a look at this level we call the working poor. Amen," exclaimed Marc Beauchamp, executive director of the North American Securities Administrators Association. He said there is "something terribly wrong" in a system that can imprison someone for stealing a small amount of money from a convenience store while "someone who steals your parents' life savings often doesn't do any jail time."