Hunger advocates in NY want more New Yorkers to go hungry this Christmas
BySometimes it’s so nice to be out of the news loop for a few days. You just may miss stories like this one.
Advocates for the poor are calling on New York state to raise the minimum wage and unemployment benefits.The Hunger Action Network wants the state minimum wage increased from $7.15 to $10 an hour.
Under state law, the Commissioner of Labor has the power to raise the minimum wage without legislative approval if the commissioner concludes it’s too low to support workers.
Of course, the Hunger Action Network is also calling on the state to provide jobs for the unemployed should the private sector fail to do so. These people are so incredibly stupid that they don’t understand that it’s the very policies they advocate that make people unemployed and hungry in the first place. In case they haven’t noticed, New York State is broke. Do they really think that the statists wouldn’t already employ every hungry Tom, Dick and Harry if they possibly could? If the Hunger Action Network had their way we’d all be lined up at soup kitchens. But in that case, the cupboards would all be bare.
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I have to disagree with you here LC. Those people are not stupid, they know exactly what they are doing and try to play this to an uninformed populous under the ploy of empathy, but their real goal is to strip people of individualism and empower the state during times of any “crisis” that is real, perceived or created.
You never know which group you’re dealing with. The do-gooder bleeding hearts or the hard core leftists. You’re probably right, I just don’t know enough about this particular group.
Hopefully they’re not an arm of ACORN or the Tides Foundation. Like you say, you never know.