On May 30, 2012, Maarlan Peele posted the following story on the Capital Area FoodBank Web site:
“After a lifetime of contributing to society, many seniors often live on fixed incomes and are forced to make impossible decisions like choosing between paying for prescriptions or buying groceries. Expensive medications, limited mobility and dependence on outside assistance make seniors particularly vulnerable to hunger.
“According to the 2010 Hunger in America study, of those client households with seniors, 30 percent had to choose between paying for food or medical care.”
This is a shameful situation that should not occur in the United States of America!!
Without policies and programs going forth to broaden private, individual ownership of future productive capital assets held by our business corporations and companies hopeless poverty, social alienation, and economic breakdown will persist, even though the American economy is ripe with the physical, technical, managerial, and engineering prerequisites for improving the lives of the 99 percent majority. Why? Because there is a crippling organizational malfunction that prevents making full use of the technological prowess that we have developed. The system does not fully facilitate connecting the majority of citizens, who have unsatisfied needs and wants, to the productive capital assets enabling productive efficiency and economic growth.
Binary economist Louis Kelso said, “We are a nation of industrial sharecroppers who work for somebody else and have no other source of income. If a man owns something that will produce a second income, he’ll be a better customer for the things that American industry produces. But the problem is how to get the working man [and woman] that second income.”
http://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/2012/05/forced-to-choose-housing-medicine-or-food/
