Phoenix Mayor Attemps Living on Food Stamps

I'm sharing a link to a short eye-opener.  You might want to share it with anyone you know who believes people are living large on food stamps.  Most of us understand that's an outrageous belief.   Much like the belief that people don't look for jobs because they're living lazy on unemployment.  Wouldn't it be fun to see people who believe such an outrageous thing actually living on unemployment for a month?  Trying to pay their bills?  Ooops, no latte today!  Or lunch.  And the same experiment would be educational for people who complain about people receiving public assistance (welfare)?  

 

Those Romney ads saying President Obama weakened welfare have taken hold hereabouts—partly because people want to believe that.  The fact is, as most of you well-informed Lucy Lefters know, the Prez strengthened the work provision in "welfare"eligibility allowing States to implement that provision in their own chosen ways.  Republicans, historically and always, have favored giving power to the States.  Can you imagine— if Obama were a Republican president— what accolades he'd be receiving for accomplishing this?   No way for Obama to win the truth game on this.  Some voters need to believe something, anything specific  to justify voting against Mr. Obama whom they don't like or trust.  And there's no doubt in my mind that most of the reluctance to support him is his ethnicity.  I figured that out yesterday after overhearing one conversation and foolishly injecting myself in another at a local store.

 

Even though he can't win at correcting false ads like the welfare one, he CAN win November 6—if all of us V O T E.   If we will help make it happen by phone banking, making sure like-minded voters cast their ballot and that those would-be disenfranchised voters have the photo ID's they need.  E-mail/message/text friends on election day to ask whether they've voted yet.  

Here's a link to a very short post you will like.

  http://www.jimrigby.org/phoenix-mayor-attempts-to-live-on-food-stamps/#.UGrPB-7-Uy0.facebook