Comments about: AUGUSTA Poverty symposium targets 'chronic' symptom: hunger
AUGUSTA -- Jesse Leah Vear's hands shook slightly as she spoke to more than 200 people in front of her.

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Amazed of Waterville, ME
Oct 28, 2008 4:03 PM
THE TRUTH IS OUT! THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM, WIC, FOOD PANTRIES, SOUP KITCHENS, FREE SCHOOL BREAKFAST AND FREE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS ARE NOT WORKING.

GET RID OF ALL THE ABOVE AND DISTRIBUTE GOVERNMENT COMMODITIES INSTEAD.report abuse
Erick Bennett of Oakland, ME
Oct 28, 2008 12:53 PM
I do not wish to sound insensitive.

When I was growing up my father was a disabled veteran due to emphysma and heart disease who before being disabled was very hard working and successful.

After he got sick he raised a family of six on $900.00 (nine hundred dollars) a month without getting foodstamps and "assistance".

I grew up very very poor.

Today, you would be hard pressed to find a "poor" person that is not only obese but stuffs their faces to the gill with junk food and soda that food stamps pay for.

Nobody starving there. Give me a break.

I am for ending poverty, but lets be very careful how we do it.report abuse
jdtex of Austin, TX
Oct 28, 2008 8:26 AM
A combination of things lead to poverty: laziness, parents who are unfit to raise kids, and most of all: a state government that does all it can to drive jobs out of the state.

All of you who voted for the liberal leaders can thank yourselves for this mess. Enjoy your high taxes, pitiful infrastructure, Dirigo, and lack of good companies! Can you blame a company for not wanting to start up there?report abuse
reader of Boston, MA
Oct 28, 2008 7:50 AM
I watched an online Maine TV newscast of this forum. One of the advocates for homeless speaker had a ring in her nose like a cow. She might not want to fall asleep with these hungry bums in the audiencereport abuse

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