Hunger In the Suburbs

Run time: 03:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ddrvm8530   Posted on YouTube: April 17, 2015 By YouTube Member: YouTube Help Views on YouTube: 4689853   Posted on DU: April 02, 2007 By DU Member: Monkeyman Views on DU: 901

 
Look this can happen to all of us. Bush and his do-nothing Congress changed laws so companies can get away with this shit.

...in Minnesota...the unemployment rate is supposedly low but every evening the crowds coming for food, a hot dinner, grow by leaps and bounds.
like the guy in the report, there are some restaurants admirably helping out but it doesn't change the basic problem....
all of these places, by the way, will welcome additional volunteers...

no excuse for anyone being denied a legitimate worker's comp claim other than pure fucking greed. and obviously that dude's claim was legit. there's a big time scam going on there somewhere.

The "scam" is called modern America. It is going on everywhere. It will continue, unabated, if the majority will not call it because because they are too domesticated and kept, like corporate pets, to call it.

If we had real news, it would be reporting a virtual nightmare right now. But we don't. We have propaganda that is disseminated by the very people that information should be protecting us from. We are, collectivly, the sheep, and the wolves are having a literal field day during our fleecing and parasite-ridden demise.

All the while, we grin, bear it, and resort to the mass opiate of various forms of "entertainment" while we submit and succumb to the Royal Scam. It is a scientific formula now. It works so well that you could imagine someone on death row being convinced that they had just won both freedom and the lottery as they were being led to the electric chair.

What price freedom? Oh, whatever the next fix of distraction from what really matters might cost, I guess.

As Chief cook and bottle washer in a Gettysburg, PA restaurant, I had two fingers on my right hand cut off in a vegetable slicer (second person in a week to get their fingers cut). They sewed them back on and two weeks later I got a visit from the workmen's comp inspector, not a Doctor. I got up to make him some tea. My right hand was still in a splint. He said if I could make him tea, I could work in a restaurant. I told him you are carrying these huge trays of food and large hot pots, you can not work with one hand. I found out later, he went to the restaurant manager and told him I could work with one hand. The manger said a one handed cook and bottle washer was no good to him.

To this day I have no feeling in those fingers (which is why I type so slowly). Later this strange lump started growing out of the side of my finger. I had to have two more operations.

In this case the employer was pushing to get him off their rolls. What a scam. Get one doctor to say you can work and the employer is off the hook. Maybe if they designed their workplace so that accidents like these don't happen then they wouldn't be paying out on workmen's comp. But no, instead of improving the workplace, they harass and pressure the injured worker. Welcome to bush's America. Where we all are one injury away from starvation.

A woman once told me her brother, who worked at a Firestone franchise auto repair place, was injured on the job. His boss told him that if he reported it, he'd be fired. He didn't report it.

In a right-to-work, at-will employment state, "employee's rights" is an oxymoron.

Middle class jobs are disappearing ever faster these days. Union busting, downsizing, outsourcing (which 'Hil' seems to be perfectly OK with) and yes, employers hiring illegal immigrants who will work for FAR less money are all contributing to the disappearing middle class.

Most people are 1 or 2 paychecks away from this and few of our "leaders" (Republican AND Democrats) seem to give a damn. They're not even talking about it. Ah, the good ole' days of feudal societies. :sarcasm:

:kick: ... to the Greatest Page!

And not to seem heartless, but perhaps the wife could get a McJob to hold them over.

That said, the Worker's comp denial is a rape of sorts.

For any Appeal its about a year long of a wait with no income coming in.