Why politicians don't care about poor people

Ever wonder why they turn a blind eye on you when you're devastated after your father got cancer and your mom had a stroke? Take this man's word for their reason (whatever it means): "We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it," Romney, Republican presidential candidate said. "We have food stamps, we have Medicaid, we have housing vouchers, we have programs to help the poor."

Which is why they are not worried about millions of people starving to death on this Earth. Don't blame them for their poor condition or education, or the little knowledge they know about family planning's 2 childs policy. It is you who can make the difference.

For Mitt Romney's information, he still have some big holes to fix in that net. According to Huff Post Politics, they have found some interesting news of what he means by "safety net".

Nationwide, Medicaid covers only a quarter of non-elderly adults with annual incomes below 139 percent of the poverty line, the threshold for Medicaid eligibility. (The poverty line is an annual income of $22,314 for a family of four.) In Nevada, Medicaid covers just 12 percent of non-elderly adults in that income range, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health policy think tank. More than half of those go uninsured, compared with 44 percent, or 21.5 million people, for the broader U.S.

The food stamp participation rate for eligible people was 72 percent nationwide in 2009, according to a December 2011 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program. Nevada was among 12 states with rates significantly lower than the national average, with 61 percent of eligible people receiving food assistance.

And many Nevadans afflicted by the signature scourge of the Great Recession -- long-term unemployment -- are left hanging when their unemployment insurance runs out after 99 weeks. Nearly 2 million people have been out of work that long nationwide.
Just 27 percent of Nevadans who ran out of jobless benefits landed in another part of the state's safety net over a yearlong period, according to a November 2011 report by the Nevada Division of Welfare and Supportive Services. Of 1,643 people who "exhausted" their unemployment from January 2010 to February 2011, just 442 landed in DWSS caseloads, with 436 signing up for food stamps. Just 88 enrolled in Medicaid, and 20 signed up for welfare. What happened to the rest?

At this rate, the global village will soon fall into "the net of destruction". China and India will have increasing population, overflowing to other countries where they are unemployed. The economy is growing rapidly due to low labor cost. It will soon get to European countries and US that these manufacturing boomers need some money for their people. Poverty is on a new rise.