Feds: Too few Americans ‘turn to government for assistance’

[Locutus]

More Americans rely on their families for assistance than the government, so federal officials have undertaken an effort to help people to apply for federal assistance.
“Given that only 15 percent of you turn to government assistance in tough times, we want to make sure you know about benefits that could help you,” USA.gov announced today. The ”government made easy’ website has created a “help for difficult financial times” page for people to learn more about the programs.
The government got that statistic from a poll asking Americans what helps them the most during tough times. Here are the results:

• Savings 44%
• Family 21%
• Credit cards/loans 20%
• Government assistance 15%

“Government assistance comes in different forms—from unemployment checks and food assistance to credit counseling and medical treatment,” USA.gov reminded readers.


This leg of the financial assistance push has ended. “Although our campaign to highlight Help for Difficult Financial Times has ended, we know that your struggles may continue,” said USA.gov today. “We will keep updating the tools and information we provide to help you get back on your feet.”


Feds: Too few Americans


Daily Digest :: Naked DC

 

[Highball]

Keep this in mind. If the government provides everything to the people for free who pays the bills? Also if they are big enough to meet those needs they are also big enough to take it all away. Then what?

 

[L Gilbert]

More Americans rely on their families for assistance than the government, so federal officials have undertaken an effort to help people to apply for federal assistance.
“Given that only 15 percent of you turn to government assistance in tough times, we want to make sure you know about benefits that could help you,” USA.gov announced today. The ”government made easy’ website has created a “help for difficult financial times” page for people to learn more about the programs.
The government got that statistic from a poll asking Americans what helps them the most during tough times. Here are the results:

• Savings 44%
• Family 21%
• Credit cards/loans 20%
• Government assistance 15%

“Government assistance comes in different forms—from unemployment checks and food assistance to credit counseling and medical treatment,” USA.gov reminded readers.


This leg of the financial assistance push has ended. “Although our campaign to highlight Help for Difficult Financial Times has ended, we know that your struggles may continue,” said USA.gov today. “We will keep updating the tools and information we provide to help you get back on your feet.”


Feds: Too few Americans


Daily Digest :: Naked DC

In other words, "We'll letcha know that we can help you out after you've leaped through 472 burning hoops. But we usually will turn you down".

 

[eh1eh]

Keep this in mind. If the government provides everything to the people for free who pays the bills? Also if they are big enough to meet those needs they are also big enough to take it all away. Then what?

Mr. Obvious.
Thank you for your observation.

But there is more.

Do NOT run the microwave with nothing inside it.
Do NOT use scotch tape to cover a wound.
Do NOT change your first name.
Do NOT wear jeans on the beach.
Do NOT call again, he/she got your message.
Do NOT play with bear cubs in the wild.
Do NOT play with bear cubs at the zoo.
Stay away from bears.


As illustrated here.

“If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and two minutes later he gets eaten by another fish—that’s tragic. But it’s only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of a dynamic process, a molecular dance, and made a separate entity out of it.”
—Eckhart Tolle ♥from The Power of Now. (Namaste Publishing, 1997.)