Uppity Wisconsin

One look at this man, and you know he’s never gone hungry his entire life.

So, add this to the growing number of reasons 40-year-incumbent Jim Sensenbrenner needs to face retirement this fall.

His solution to hungry people needing food, hungry people who were not impacted by recent floods, but part of a growing hunger crisis, is to create a bureaucracy to deny them food.

According to Wisconsin’s Hunger Task Force, Milwaukee is the 8th poorest city in the nation, and the 4th highest with children in living poverty.

It came as a big surprise to Sensenbrenner that a bunch of those folks stood in line as early as 5 a.m. to get food vouchers intended for flood victims.

“ … we saw a waste of federal resources that mocked a program designed to help people in dire straits … when it comes to federal funds and federal programs, there needs to be more verification and guidelines when handing out taxpayers’ money,” said Sensenbrenner. 

REALLY? Tell us, Jim, what are you doing to recover the more than $39 million spent by federal employees on the Katrina payroll that was charged to government credit cards for things like TVs and golf carts?

If you are hungry, and willing to stand in line for free food for hours, beginning at 5 a.m., doesn’t that kind of mean you’re in dire straits, flooding or no flooding?

GET UPPITY! Contribute to the Hunger Task Force. And tell this rich, bloated Congressman what you think about his hypocrisy.