Gubbamint at its finest

Here's a story that's a prime example of how this country is going to hell in a brown paper bag.
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From $70K to food bank
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By Thelma Gutierrez and Wayne Drash
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ALTADENA, California (CNN) -- When she was laid off in February, Patricia Guerrero was making $70,000 a year. Weeks later, with bills piling up and in need of food for her family, this middle-class mother did something she never thought she would do: She went to a food bank.
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Guerrero is estranged from her husband and raising her two young children. She's already burned through her savings to help make ends meet, and is drawing unemployment checks. She has had to take extreme measures to pay for her interest-only mortgage of $2,500 a month. In fact, her mother moved in with her to help pay the bills.
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Guerrero even applied for food stamps, but was denied.
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"I never used the system. I've been working since I was 15-and-a-half. I needed it now and it turned me down," she said.
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Read that last part again. She never used the system, has worked all of her adult life, and when she needs help, the federal gubbamint turns her down for food stamps. All the while Bush and his oil cronies are getting richer ($4 a gallon gas, anyone?), the housing market continues to crash and burn but the CEOs of these sub-prime lenders are walking away with multi-million dollar payouts, and we all continue to get screwed right up the ass.
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This land is your land. And you can have it if this is the way it's going to be.