Dear Senator Nelson and Senator Rubio and our elected
Congressmen and Congresswomen:
Last year in Hernando County a small
independent church and a Pastor with a vision of helping feed a couple hundred
people realized that day how bad the hunger problem in Tampa Bay was. With the
support of a few small businesses, another church, United Way of Hernando, and
Feeding America Tampa Bay with the hope that $4500 would feed at most 500
people. Hours before the event even started, throngs of people started getting
in line hoping maybe to get even a little bit of food, a lot more than the 500
that was expected. A little more than a week before a Pastor along with Feeding
America Tampa Bay faced a line of more than 1900 people standing in line hoping
to get some food. These couple thousand people along with more unknown amounts
of hungry people who seek help from small bare bones food pantries are some of
the people who hired you for the job that you have. Please remember that you
folks only have Temp Jobs and your employers (us) cannot understand why this is
happening. Thousands of people along with their children and elderly are hungry
here. While Christmas vacation was in place for the schools many children did
not have breakfast or lunch. You see, these groups of your employers have to
deal with their hungry children crying and hearing the rumbling of their own
stomachs to think much about your upcoming performance appraisal. An employer
of yours who died about twenty years ago tried to help fix this hunger. Harry
Chapin stated that "Hunger and poverty is an insult to America". He was right.
As I sit and ate my bowl of cereal
this morning and read the paper I consider myself and my family blessed. We
have food, can afford to buy the morning paper, and even donate food ourselves.
At one time we were considered upper middle class, but now we are just the middle
class and I try to remember how that happened. As one of your employers I can’t
remember why we didn’t catch what was happening sooner and give each of you a
letter of warning. When I got promoted as one of your employers (i.e. turned
18) I got excellent training. I learned that your job description is our
Constitution, and in the first paragraph of your job description you are hired
by us to manage the methods of establishing efficient and honest justice
standards; and ensuring that the system your more senior employers put in place
continued to ensure that we live in an environment of domestic Tranquility, maintain
our defense and provide for those volunteer to do this, and promote the general Welfare and liberty for all of
us.
As I read more of the newspaper I
realized that contrary to what a large portion of your employers expected, you
took our business capital and divided it up so much that we are not going to
get a good return on a funds. We are going to have dirtier water supplies,
poorer quality of air that we breathe, and now not only more hungry people but
they are also going to get colder in the winter and even hotter in the summer.
Why? Because you let yourself become distracted by hoping we will continue to
hire you and that a small group of rich Americans will pay to try to persuade
us come Election Day to let you keep your job or hire an unknown new guy. In
addition I find it hard to believe that it takes more money so that you can do
your job than it does to help provide basic needs for a large number of people
that you work for. And this brings us back to the original issue of the long
lines of people needing food because you failed to perform those basic terms of
your employment.
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