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Distr.: This letter was sent to our political representatives, local newspapers, and radio and television stations, as an email and to other sources for networking.
Subject: Emergency Help
Safety Net Plan – A Fair and Humanitarian System
It's time to spend our tax dollars to create jobs, homes and assistance for our own citizens.
The time is ripe to present the American people with an equal chance at surviving these incredibly difficult times. Animosity is on the rise due to unfair treatment and unjust laws. Financial ruin is taking its toll after companies like Enron have stolen hard earned savings. The population is squeezed for medical and dental costs that are unrealistic and inhumane. In order to get assistance with problems that arise from medical or dental hardship, hardworking individuals are forced to sell house and home, swallow their pride and take a second seat to immigrants and drug addicts.
After these citizens have nothing left, America still has no program to stop our own sons and daughters from spiraling into an abyss of poverty and homelessness. We are forcing our men and women to take desperate measures to survive. The reason appears to be a lack of proper planning and funding. There are programs for HIV, for drug addicts, for the homeless, for families with children and for alcoholics. Funding is available for immigrants, for minorities and for other countries like Afghanistan and North Korea. Foreign countries receive food, money and medical supplies. But here at home our own families are ill, sometimes starving, and looking for work. Not just vagrants, we are speaking of veterans and highly skilled workers. Many of these Americans were self-employed. Our system does not support them, or allow them to participate in cost-effective insurance programs. However, we squeezed them for taxes which they paid year after year. These hard working individuals are not covered by any plan, program or funding when things go awry. And it’s not true that they are in it for the money, many of them are below poverty level and self-employed because it’s the only work available at the moment. They choose to work privately instead of becoming a burden on society.
What you are reading is not made up. This is the current state of affairs and the way our system works. I didn't even realize it until I was faced with the problem myself. I was too busy trying to make a living, like so many other people out there. To all of you who suffered before me and cried out for help, I am sorry that I didn’t hear you. I promise to do my best to correct this situation. Please try to hang in there and do what you can for those around you.
We need to stick together in these difficult times and put our efforts towards a common goal – getting all of us healthy, working and participating in making America what it was meant to be.
It is unfair when I see that Afghans and North Koreans are getting medical help, housing and food and we have nothing to help our own citizens. Afghans are getting toothpaste and toilet paper and our own welfare system won’t supply it to Americans. I get very frustrated when I see that people can float to America on a raft and get more assistance than we can. Even prisoners get medical and dental treatment, they are fed and they have a chance to study. We call it humane treatment. But we don’t treat our free citizens with that kind of respect. We send them a message that says life is better in Federal prison. It is unfair and unjust. And it is time to stand up and say that it is wrong. It is not prejudiced or biased to see that the supply of food and resources is not based on a need anymore, but on your nationality and "program guidelines". We have cut the flexibility necessary to supply help where it's needed and we have created a system where guidelines and regulations, instead of humanitarian issues, control the flow.
Our Government is funding thousands of people who have never paid a tax dollar into our system in their lives, funds are flowing to war, to stop drugs and to try and help a choice few that are fighting for health and nutrition from the gutters of this great country. But those who have served society and our country don't get a dime or any assistance when we need it. This is telling us that we can give help to immigrants who have never fought to defend our freedom, but not to our soldiers and citizens. Nobody doubts that immigrants have a great need for assistance. The programs that exist to help these people have a very important place in our society and I would not want to see them replaced. Nobody wants to have to choose who gets food and who doesn’t. It’s a difficult task with a heavy burden. On one hand, we turn our own families into vagrants and on the other we spend billions of dollars on war. Both are probably necessary right now. One is getting all the funding; the other is fueling a hatred and animosity that could turn many Americans against the Government and the system. Votes will go to those promising relief from our burdens, not to those who feed the rich.
Our hard-earned promise of American freedom, the freedom that all of us enjoy, is still intact because people like me gave up many years of our lives to defend and protect it; some of these men and women gave their lives for what many of us take for granted.
It could be our fault for not standing up and changing things before it was too late. We do have the power to change the way America works. This is our country; it does not just belong to the politicians.
Our representatives work for the majority, not for the bureaucracy that they are forced to bow down and serve. If we rise as one voice to change something, it will be changed. If you choose not to participate, then you give your voice away to those who do participate. We recently saw how close a presidential election can get, as well as how crooked and warped things get when it comes to politics.
I propose that an immediate emergency fund be created, a safety net for helping the American people before we are completely ruined; not after we have fallen through the cracks into some sewer created by the red tape of our twisted bureaucracy.
I would also like to suggest a continued funding effort to create an organization to prevent this from happening in the future. I am not speaking of altering or changing the help organizations created for single women with children, drug addicts, the homeless or the poor souls that flee to America seeking refuge from torture.
Perhaps what we need is an extension of the programs created during any emergency in this country; immediate food and clothing, shelter and medical supplies, funds and assistance. We do it for 3rd world countries, for countries ravaged by war and for allies; but we don't take care of our own people at home.
There are many ways you can participate in this effort. You can donate funds to help fuel our efforts to create a better America, you can donate canned goods, blankets and household items, you can volunteer your services, and you can supply warehouse space or visit our website and sign a petition. There are many ways that you can make a difference. Please don’t ignore this letter and toss it aside. We need your help now, not tomorrow.
Please donate to our efforts for a
fair and humanitarian system by
depositing what you can to Bank of
America 063 100 277, Account #
004 430 079 911 - Safety Net Foundation, Inc.. You can even use PayPal by making donations to donation_safetynet@hotmail.com. I will personally make sure you get a receipt for your donation and I will keep you advised of the progress. We welcome any ideas, criticism and support.
Presently we need any volunteers that can write or volunteer time. There is much to do; from food drives to fund raisers. We need a permanent office address, a place for storage, goods of all kinds and funding. Any and all help is appreciated.
Bless all of you! All of you keep your chin up and stay proud. Help is on the way.
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