Number of homeless children highest in American history

http://vimeo.com/38144929 Story of a homeless boy in CA

As a high school counselor, I can tell you that homelessness is a crisis. I am sure that most of these numbers do not include the multitude of teens that are "couch surfers". These students have been kicked out of their homes for a variety of reasons and must live off of the good graces of friends. The saddest reason I have heard often is the Mom has gone to live with boyfriend and the kid is not welcome. Or sometimes the family jst thinks hat when you turn 16 you should be able to make it on your own. These teens are treated as throwaways by society, they struggle with so much I today's world and this just adds to it. The nation wonders why kids drop out and yet nobody seems to think this is a significant problem.

Animal Rights and Human Rights....
ASPCA and other Humane Societies… (always follow the money)… Wouldn’t it be better if the Donations they collected were used to Lobby and create sound, enforceable Laws against puppy-mills and irresponsible dog breeders/owners? Rather than continue an unending, (perhaps very profitable), expanding problem? … Where is the Human Humane Society? I find it bizarre that Nazi Germany enforced Animal Rights while planning the extermination of the Jews ::: http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/Nazianimalrights.htm

Money is the problem. It is just a game for human beings to play for "status" and "authority." For the capitalist economic scheme to work in America, one must regularly secure short-term gains (cutting cost where you can, bringing in business with advertising/brainwashing, and ultimately showing tiny profits for scattered financial backers in a similarly "gamelike" network of trades and seizures. The current human monetary system does not reflect any interest in meeting the basic biological needs of all humans. With our collective intelligence as human beings we can solve that dilemma. The spirit of science will be the wind of change in the power structure. Many of the political systems are highly irrational, and ultimately amount to victimization of masses of frightened animals through violence and mental manipulation payed for by the ruling class, in order to maintain their dominance. Money is the trap and many don't survive the game, as we now see. And people will all come to the end of their current life, but human life should not be lost for the sake of petty games tailored for the violent and fearful. Many mundane and numbingly repetitive tasks that humans do in exchange for currency is done only in order to be able to survive in an "economic" human financial system. It does not reflect the capacities of that human mind, nor any reflection of their inherent worth. It is simply an injustice imposed upon humans that might otherwise not want to spend their whole life trapped in a global marketplace being patrolled by hired thugs with technologically destructive weaponry that kills without a thought. We are deciding to use the power of our minds now. And the scientific perspective will enable human beings to rediscover their dignity and end this particular cycle of thoughtless destruction and needless victimization of ourselves for the sake of falling in line to the currently misguided capitalist playground that is destroying the quality of life of humans around the world, and absorbing the helpless and draining their blood for short-term gains and managerial bonuses. We are a web of energy across the "one world." We are not nations, we are the Earth. And what is good for all Earth's creatures is good for humans as well. Healthy water, healthy vegetation, healthy air, and healthy heart. Humans don't need 28 varieties of cereal to be happy, or discount goods made halfway around the world. We used to make food in our homeland and goods as well. If the people localize again it is more efficient and empowers the human being once again by providing freedom for pursuits of bettering the greater human intelligence collective. The technology of food production will be collectively scientifically evaluated and will be managing well the the cultivation of the various foods for greatest efficiency and fully organic quality. We must turn our hearts from want to need and look at what there is to work with. We have more than enough. Science with its fully open-nature will be a far greater ally to human well-being than economic empires led by war-hawks ever were. Respect.

The direct result of government sanctioned greed, should have observed third world countries and foreseen the inevitable.

Absolutely tragic. Its really shameful that this exists on the richest nation on the planet.

This is a tragic fall out from our corrupt broken government and a dream come true for every degenerate pedophile.

Just had the pleasure of watching 60mins rerun starring Ben Bernanke who boastfully stated that he's not going to let any of the big banks go under on his watch... that he fully intends to bailout the banks with taxpayer money again if necessary. When asked about preventative measures, he gave a vague nod to the idea of regulations, with, once again, no concrete plan.

On the same show, there was another segment about the middle-class losing their 401ks in the casino that is Wall Street and a lobbyist sneering and mocking the public for being so foolish for investing in the stock market.

So let's briefly sum up some of the collateral damage.

The majority of the middle-class has lost a huge chunk of their savings in the 2008 crash that they will never recover and will most likely work until the day that they die.

There is no WPA or jobs program in sight.

We have 13.9 million people unemployed with 5 million people homeless and 1 out of 45 children homeless in the United States of America.

Our broken do-nothing disconnected congress… with a 9% approval rating… still has not passed regulations for derivative gambling on Wall Street to prevent this from happening again.

Get used to seeing hungry homeless children people…

2/3 of our government is broken and unless the 99% votes them out of office, it is not going to get better. Sadly voting turnout in the United States is on the same scale as going to a funeral, folks only show up if the weather is nice and sadder still is the reality that only about 30% of Americans vote.

I just saw the girl with the dragon tattoo (great movie btw) and there is a great scene where the killer says that most people (forgive the paraphrase, please) don’t listen to or follow their instincts, that folks would rather ‘be nice’ and risk their lives than be offensive and save themselves.

One more thing…

The United States doesn't need the Federal Reserve. End the Fed. Bring back the greenbacks. The Federal Reserve is broken , and does not serve the best interests of the United States of America.

State-run banks that get money directly from the Treasury would fix the majority of these corrupt big banking issues.

OCCUPY, SHARE, GIVE! dont hide from it! FACE it and work!

Nobody cares unless there is money too be made in a capitalistic society alls people look for is the almighty dollar and the old sayin in the streets if it dont make dollars it dont make sense.

Share this story on your social platforms...information is powerful, and this kind of information can be powerful if the masses know.

It's easy to place blame, but how is it repaired? What can each of us be doing to assist? While it's a problem of society it's one the we can each lessen if we're willing.

Look no further than the 1%. They are the ones that got us here..

Look at this crap... no one comments cause no one cares...

Poverty is violence and it is curable. There is enough for everyone; there always has been. Thanks for the report and keep up the good works.