Food Charity in Lake Worth Beach every Saturday

Pop-up food charity relied on by thousands may be forced out of Lake Worth Beach over traffic issues

By Joe Capozzi: "NO ONE DISPUTES the positive difference Restoration Bridge International makes every Saturday morning in Lake Worth Beach by handing out free supplemental food to thousands of people in need.

Since 2017, RBI volunteers have loaded more than 18 million pounds of produce and dry goods into the open trunks of vehicles in the parking lot of Church by the Glades at 127 South M St. every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. Many cars arrive as early as 5 a.m."

The Jewell Neighborhood is complaining about the traffic and noise.

"Nearly a quarter of Lake Worth Beach’s population lives in poverty, according to the U.S. Census, a rate among the highest for coastal communities in Palm Beach County.

Many residents in and around Lake Worth Beach not living in poverty are still struggling to make ends meet and are part of an economic classification known as ALICE, an acronym for asset limited, income constrained employed, according to the United Way of Palm Beach County."

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Lake Worth Beach has encouraged the poor over the last decade or two as well as illegal immigrants to our city. Now we are known as a poverty city in Palm Beach County. We know what is responsible for this deprivation in the United States today...Bidenomics.

Dems always play the Blame Game

Biden Says Child Poverty Increased Because of GOP Tax Cuts

President Biden pointed the finger at Republicans on September 12 after the U.S. Census Bureau released the childhood poverty figures for 2022. In a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, the president wrote that “the rise reported today in child poverty is no accident,” adding that the Republicans are to blame for blocking the Child Tax Credit enhancements.

He vowed to work to bring back the additional tax credits, while also claiming that Republicans were more concerned about corporate tax cuts. Americans with children were receiving between $250-300 per child each month, depending on the child’s age. The monthly deposits came to an end in January 2022.

Covid was over and Republicans wanted people to go back to work.

West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition shut the door to extending the additional credits. Rising inflation was also a contributory factor to the 7.2 percent increase in child poverty in 2022. More Americans were working, but the cost of living ate up additional income. And whose fault was that?

Read about the Blame Game and the spend, spend spend Democrats.

Bidenomics a complete disaster

Bidenomics: Making Poverty Great Again

The poverty rate in the United States increased for the first time in over a decade in 2022, according to new data from the Census Bureau. The poverty rate rose from 7.8% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022, an increase of 4.6 percentage points.

That news comes as the Census also reported that the U.S. real median household income decreased by 2.3% to $74,580 in 2022. Meanwhile, year-over-year inflation rose 7.8%, per Fox Business.

Biden’s administration still claims that his policies are working and that his spending plans have sparked the American economy. But, prices have increased more than 17% since he took office.

But Democrats still will vote for this lying president!

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Inflation wiping away buying power for Seniors

Social Security's Buying Power Eroded by 36%

Inflation has lowered Social Security benefits’ buying power by a substantial 36% since 2000, according to The Senior Citizens League.

The average senior citizen relying on Social Security benefits would need $517 more per month to cover the cost of daily items that have risen at higher rates than Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), CNN reports.

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Basic Income Guaranteed

Los Angeles Mayor Proposes Guaranteed Basic Income Plan

Under the proposal, “2,000 Angeleno families at or below the federal poverty line would receive $1,000 a month for one year, no strings attached.” The outlet also reports, “the $24 million program would be the largest experiment of its kind in the United States” launching as a piece of Garcetti’s “Equity and Justice Budget.”

“We have to end America’s addiction to poverty,” Garcetti stated to the outlet. “For families who can’t think past the next bill, the next shift or the next health problem that they have, we can give them the space to not only dream of a better life, but to actualize it.”

Actually, this is California's addiction to promoting communism in our country and the program is also planned to be open to illegal immigrants.

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Trump's Opportunity Zones Great Success

Trump ‘Opportunity Zones’ Beat Back Poverty in America

This comes as no surprise, but U.S. poverty rates climbed to a more than 20-year high during the Obama-Biden administration of 15.1 percent. President Donald Trump vowed to turn the tide on poverty for struggling Americans and is reportedly on track to beat back poverty to a historic low of 9.2 percent for 2020, despite economic disruption with COVID-19.

Even Lake Worth Commissioners Omari Hardy and Herman Robinson have to agree with Opportunity Zones.

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Burn Bernie, Burn!

Ted Cruz Destroys Bernie, Dem Presidential Candidate, For Propping Up China

"Ted Cruz is on fire recently just dominating Dems on Twitter with facts. This time he went after Bernie Sanders who complimented china for eradicating its poverty problem. Cruz came down on the misplaced comment and burned Bernie in the process."

Read about the Bern...

Democrats Hurt the American Workers

We Now Know How Much Democrat Policies HURT The Working Class

"Since President Donald Trump and the GOP passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, nixed Obama-era over-regulation and drew a line in the sand with thieving China, the quality of life for low-income Americans has dramatically improved. If there’s a single reason why Democrats hate the president, it’s because he proved without a doubt that their policies are anti-worker, anti-minority, and anti-poor."

Read about it... and the worst poverty in 50 years under Obama.

Why does the Left hate Wealth? Capitalism beats Poverty

Lake Worth Poverty

At last Tuesday's meeting, poverty was brought up as a reason to change our Comprehensive Plan and allow higher density. Of course, the root problem of poverty is never discussed. How will more development end poverty in Lake Worth or even lower it?

A map was handed out of the U.S. census tract (which was undated but possibly from the 2010 census) and the following poverty results were recorded:

• Tract 43--6.6% poverty

• Tract 44.01--22.4%

• Tract 44.02--48.6%

• Tract 45--31.7%

• Tract 50--20% (where I live)

• Tract 51.01--40.6%

• Tract 51.02--32.4%

• Tract 52.03--19.1%

• Tract 52.02--29.2%

• Tract 52.04--23%

• Tract 53--13.6%

This equates to 26.1% of our residents who live in poverty. According to the information given out, the poverty rate for the United States is 15.1% but Google says  the official poverty rate is 12.7 percent, based on the U.S. Census Bureau's 2016 estimates. That year, an estimated 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty according to the official measure. According to a supplemental poverty measure, the poverty rate was 14.0 percent.

Crazy California -

“California — not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia — has the highest poverty rate in the United States,”

the Los Angeles Times notes in a Jan. 14 piece by Kerry Jackson.

Read about this sanctuary state...

The Culture of Shame

Trump voter gets beaten and car stolen by blacks.

There are a lot of scum bags all over but Chicago has its fair share. In one of the top visited cities in the world with over 52 million domestic and international visitors last year, this is the home of Barack Obama. It is a city that is safer than 12% of all the cities in America with 478 crimes per square mile. Obama should be ashamed.

A large part of the problem is Chicago poverty (29.1% live in poverty) although not an excuse to beat people to a pulp.Welfare benefits are structured with intent to address the myriad struggles associated with poverty, and even more, to serve as a foundation for upward economic mobility. But a phenomenon known as the “welfare cliff” creates a poverty trap, making pay raises detrimental because they are outweighed by an even greater, simultaneous decline in welfare benefits. And there lies the rub.
Read about Chicago's warped welfare system

They have been so used to not working and falling into the welfare trap. It will be difficult to turn it all around, perhaps taking generations. But Donald Trump is going to give it his best effort. Jobs is the key and getting rid of that ingrained sense of entitlement and blaming your status in life on everyone else other than yourself. With the Republican platform, welfare costs of  $1.539 trillion a year will be reduced substantially. At least that's the plan and that's the hope.

The United Nations New Urban Agenda - Hillary approves

Both Obama and Hillary Clinton approve of this Agenda. John Kerry is the co-chair of the U.S. Habitat III National Committee and attended the meeting in Ecuador where the United Nations cooked up a “New Urban Agenda” coming soon to a city near you.

Every time they talk about sustainable cities in Lake Worth, some of us cringe. This is the New World Order and it's amazing that we have two elected Republicans (Maxwell and Triolo) who go along with all this "sustainable" stuff. We are all being played by the socialists and open border people of the world.

"It was unveiled this week in Quito, Ecuador, at the so-called Habitat III conference. And part of the plan, enthusiastically embraced by Hillary Clinton, calls for unlimited migration across open borders. Migrants displaced by war, failing economies or other hardships will be seen as having “rights” in nations other than their own. Cities are seen as the key battlegrounds and the U.N. conference in Quito had a lot to say about how your city will be expected to embrace migrants of all types, from all regions of the world.

By now most Americans who follow world events are familiar with the U.N’s plan for global governance as envisioned by its '2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development', approved by some 190 world leaders including President Obama and Pope Francis in September 2015."

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Folks, if you want to save this country, you know what to do on November 8.

Trump to be protested in Georgia today?

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It's been reported that Trump will be protested by the former mayor of Macon, C. Jack Ellis. His administration was accused of misusing government funds by the United States Attorney. "Mayor Ellis converted to Islam at one point, but seems to have abandoned that and claims affiliation at a Baptist church. He once pledged solidarity with Hugo Chavez. The man is a former used car salesman."

This is an area with a bad economy, lots of poverty and lots of crime. Mayor Ellis got rid of the gang task force, which has led to resurgent gang activity."

But I guess Mr. Ellis doesn't want to make America Great Again or perhaps it's just his little part of the world that he doesn't want infected by a loud mouth Republican who tells it like it is.

Read more... from Erick Erickson.

World Poverty Rates

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It illustrates "one of the most remarkable achievements in human history – the 80 per cent reduction in world poverty in only 36 years, from 26.8 per cent of the world’s population living on $1 or less (in 1987 dollars) in 1970 to only 5.4 per cent in 2006."  Source: Click here

Jobs, The Park of Commerce and Poverty - Lake Worth

A Little Trivia

Welfare began in the 1930's during the Great Depression. Right now, we have 11,400,000 people or 4.1% of our population on welfare and 41,700,000 on food stamps that averages out to a benefit for food at $133.85 a month in 2014. The total government spending is $131.9 billion not including food stamps or unemployment. Florida's participation rate in food stamps (SNAP) is 16.1%.

In Lake Worth, the percentage of persons below poverty level for the years 2009-2013 was 32.3%. So, nearly 1/3rd of our population is poor and many of these people are struggling to keep their homes, living on fixed incomes or not earning a good living. Those not in their own homes are paying high rents just to have a roof over their heads and must find roommates to help.

The mayor is right when she says that we need jobs in Lake Worth.  However, we have changed to a service-based economy, not only here but nationally. Scott Maxwell and Pam Triolo have been looking for government grants or tax dollars for the POC. The Park of Commerce is on track to be developed but it will never generate 5,000 jobs as the mayor claims nor is it worth pouring in $11 million plus dollars to attract these businesses that will never be able to repay the infrastructure costs in what they pay in ad-valorem--not in 100 years. The grant(s) (some of which could be matching dollars) would be coming from tax dollars out of Lake Worth. The city has already heard the voice of the people on taxing them for this undeveloped land but who knows what will happen if they do NOT get the grant(s) as they postponed the last workshop.

Many of those jobs that businesses would create would end once construction was finished and these people would move to other construction jobs in other places. When this country allowed outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, it led to a high percentage of joblessness across the country and with it a loss of skills and inability to find jobs.  This, along with the recession that caused the loss of construction jobs, are the main drivers of poverty.

U.S. News and World Report said that the U.S. economy added only 126,000 jobs in the month of March, making it the worst month for employment gains since December 2013. Revisions also knocked off nearly 70,000 jobs originally reported in the months of January and February. One positive according to Zillow is that the median home value in Lake Worth is $112,500. Lake Worth home values have gone up 15.6% over the past year and they predict they will rise 3.7% within the next year.

Poverty in the U.S.

If you consider the latest Rasmussen Report--
More Americans than ever doubt whether it is possible for most people in this country to escape being poor. 
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey 40% now think it is not possible for just about anyone to escape poverty, up just two points from 38% in March but the highest finding in regular surveying since January 2009 just after the Wall Street meltdown. Sixteen percent (16%) more are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

So, when you take that into consideration, Lake Worth can't or probably will not climb out of the poverty ashes. The city of Lake Worth wants to strangle the property owners in new debt that they have no chance from escaping unless they can find some poor sucker to buy their property.

We have defined our country as a place where everyone, if he or she works hard enough, can get ahead (the American Dream) but Obama with a line stolen from Elizabeth Warren in her victory speech on November 6, 2012 where she stated it had been "an amazing campaign, and let me be clear, I didn't build that, you built that," contradicts that work ethic. Warren copped the line from some professor. So, the message from this administration is--if we work hard, someone else got us there.  How does this stated belief  incentivize people to work hard and to achieve success?

Regarding the General Obligation Bond that obligates you to pay until year 2049, poor people could become tax poor in this city. Businesses will look at this high tax and think twice before they come to Lake Worth to build a property or buy a commercial structure.

NumbersUSA on Illegal Immigration and Population

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NumbersUSA has asked that I re-post their YouTube on Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs. They have had over 1,711,000 hits on this video. 

Quote of the Day - Shanon Materio

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"It will take a lot of money to get Benzaiten up and running. If you walk into this kind of situation and are too thin financially, you won’t succeed, It’s one of those things that will take a while to kick in.”

~ Shanon Materio,
 a West Palm Beach city commissioner who owns McMow Art Glass in Lake Worth speaking about the Benzaiten Center, the old 10,000 s.f. FEC railway station building that was leased just 6 months ago from the City of Lake Worth for $1 a year for 20 years.

The amazing thing about Lake Worth is that it continues to "lease" out/give away our city owned property for $1 a year or negligible amounts and then they cry "poverty."

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And here's an example of another one where the city pays all the utilities. Click here

Creating a socialist state

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The irony we face in Lake Worth are from those who hate what they consider "anarchists" when they are anarchists themselves. They "hated" Cara Jennings for her stand on social issues but they love Obama for his.

There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a socialist state. The first is the most important.

• 1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people

• 2) Poverty - Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.

• 3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.

• 4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.

• 5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)

• 6) Education - Take control of what people read and listen to - take control of what children learn in school.

• 7) Religion - Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.

• 8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

- Read more at Henry Makow.