There are agencies out there to help......sm
Posted By: m on 2009-03-03
In Reply to: Hey there! I like it, but what about clothing, housing, medicines......sm - Cyndiee
provide inexpensive clothing. I have shopped at Good Will and Womens' Shelter stores in the past. Good clothes can be found there. There are subsidized housing agencies, government apartments, etc. for housing. There are a multitude of social services out there to help with things like utilities and so forth. People just have to look for them. Churches help people as well, some through monetary means and some through other kinds of ministries, like Angel Food Ministries, etc.
I agree that the kids and elderly are the ones who suffer the most, but have you looked at the shopping cart of a welfare recipient lately? Most of the time, they won't have fresh fruits and vegetables and healthy meats. They will, instead, have junk food like chips, candy, soft drinks, etc., which, in the long run, are a lot more expensive that good basic nutritional food.
There is not 1 universal fix to the mess that welfare has grown to become, but I do believe there are steps to be taken to reform it and make it be what it was intended to be in the first place....a hand UP, not a hand out.
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Here's the brief filed in court by several media agencies...including
Was Valerie Plame covert?What's curious is that lawyers representing 36 media organizations argued she wasn't in this amici curiae brief submitted to the US District Court.
(page ii) "In this case, there exists ample evidence in the public record to cast serious doubt as to whether a crime has even been committed under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (the "Act") in the investigation underlying the attempts to secure testimony from Miller and Cooper. If in fact no crime under the Act has been committed, then any need to compel Miller and Cooper to reveal their confidential sources should evaporate."
And further
(ppg 30,31) "Plame was not given 'deep cover' required of a covert agent...She worked at a desk job at CIA headquarters, where she could be seen traveling to and from, and active at, Langley. She had been residing in Washington — not not stationed abroad-- for a number of years. As discussed below, the CIA failed to take even its usual steps to prevent publication of her name."
And further
(pg 31) Moreover, the government may have "publicly acknowledged or revealed" her intelligence relationship prior to publication of Novak's July 14, 2003 column. "The United States has 'revealed' an intelligence relationship if it has disclosed information which names, or leads directly to the identification of...a covert agent." S. Rep. 97-201, at 23. An article in The Washington Times indicated that Plame's identity was compromised twice prior to Novak's publication. If this information is accurate - another fact a court should explore - there is an absolute defense to prosecution. See 50 U.S.C. § 422(a).
And WHO was one of the media outlets who filed this brief? OMG, say it isn't so....CBS. The same ones who are now trotting Plame out to say she WAS covert.
What a crock, reveille. Really!!
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