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RUSH: Dawn was reading the Palm Beach Post. I don\u2019t read it but she does, and she sent me this most amazing story. The headline: ‘Hungry Palm Beach County Residents Failing to Claim…\u2019 and Port St. Lucie is in Martin County, right? I\u2019m sorry, St. Lucie County. St. Lucie County, yes, but it\u2019s <\/a>not in Palm Beach County. ‘Hungry Palm Beach County Residents Failing to Claim $83 Million in Food Stamp Aid.\u2019 Now, the first thing wrong with the headline is ‘hungry.\u2019 If they were hungry they\u2019d be collecting the food stamps! And this stupid story goes on to lament: These poor people, they don\u2019t know all the food stamps are available! They don\u2019t know it\u2019s out there, and so the county is trying to figure out ways, Mr. Limbaugh, to advertise so they can alert people. <\/emphasize><\/p>\n

Are you telling me that since 1964, 45 years, Americans — particularly in a 78% or 70% Democrat county like this one — don\u2019t know where the food stamps are? Don\u2019t know how to go get the food stamps? I got an idea. We like to bring solutions to things here at the EIB Network. The journalism business is in deep doo-doo, right? Newspapers are in bad shape. The Palm Beach Post has laid off workers. They have cut the size of the newspaper. It\u2019s a tabloid. It\u2019s just not printed that way. They still print it as a broad sheet, but there\u2019s nothing broad about it anymore. So why not get some stimulus money and use that to buy advertising in the Palm Beach Post to tell these people that are hungry and starving that there\u2019s $83 million worth of food stamps they haven\u2019t claimed? Well, the reason is that the people who are hungry and starving (supposedly) probably don\u2019t read the paper in the first place — or can\u2019t, one of the two. This is just… Wouldn\u2019t this tell a responsible government, ‘Maybe that\u2019s money we don\u2019t have to spend, then. Maybe we\u2019re over budget by $83 million.\u2019<\/p>\n

Because the idea that a bunch of people who are totally dependent on food stamps don\u2019t know where to go to get it is just unbelievable. The story is by Jennifer Sorentrue. ‘More than $80 million in food stamps available to Palm Beach County residents is going unclaimed, the head of the county\u2019s food alliance told commissioners this morning. Alex Stevens, director of the county\u2019s community food alliance…\u2019 You know, I would love to go back and say, ‘Hey, Thomas Jefferson? Did you ever think you would live in a country — create a country, found a country — that ended up with things called ‘the county\u2019s community food alliance\u2019?\u2019 The community food alliance. Alex Stevens. Can you imagine when Alex Stevens of was four years old or five years old?<\/p>\n

‘Little Alex what do you want to be when you grow up?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I want to run the county community food alliance, Dad.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Good little Alex! Except there isn\u2019t one, Alex.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘There will be, Dad, by the time I grow up. I want to found it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘[T]he county\u2019s community food alliance.\u2019 This is the United States of America. We\u2019re not talking about Honduras here. We\u2019re not talking about Venezuela. We\u2019re not talking about Afghanistan. We\u2019re talking the richest country in the earth. (sigh) All right. Used to be. That\u2019s right. Now we\u2019re a banana republic, and we got a new national anthem. That\u2019s coming up in a minute again, too.<\/p>\n

‘Alex Stevens, director of the county\u2019s community food alliance, said there has been a 30 percent surge in the number of people registering for food stamps with the state\u2019s Department of Children and Families.\u2019 Okay, so we have the county\u2019s community food alliance which interfaces with the Department of Children and Families, and there\u2019s been a 30% surge in the number of people wanting to be fed by the government, and ‘Still, he said, about $83 million in food stamps are going unclaimed,\u2019 here. ‘Commissioners said…\u2019 Get this. The commissioners of the community food alliance ‘said the number is unacceptable…\u2019 (laughing) Damn right it is, but we\u2019re not talking about the same reasons here. ‘Commissioners said the number is unacceptable and urged state and local leaders to do more to reach those who may not know they qualify for the benefit.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Commissioner Burt Aaronson of the community food alliance, or maybe he\u2019s a county commissioner, I\u2019m not sure. Okay, so now three groups are involved. The county commissioners, the community food alliance, and the Department of Children and Families. Three groups, and they have failed to alert all the people. Despite a 30% surge in the demand for food stamps, they have failed somehow to get rid of $83 million. Why don\u2019t just do what Democrats do and go take the money yourself and say you gave it away? You could give it to the Palm Beach County sheriff\u2019s office or police. We\u2019re always hearing about how these agencies are going to be ‘cut.\u2019 Well, give it to them. Yeah. Give it to the sheriff\u2019s department or give it to the fire departments. You can\u2019t let $83 million slide off the table. It won\u2019t. You still have it, right? If it\u2019s unclaimed, it\u2019s… (interruption) <\/p>\n

I know. Budget-wise,\u2019use it or lose it.\u2019 That\u2019s why they want to spend it be because they don\u2019t want their budget cut for food stamps next year. ‘Commissioner Shelley Vana agreed. ‘If we are leaving $83 million on the table…” This is really going to improve my coverage in the Palm Beach Post, by the way. I just want to make that observation. ‘Commissioner Shelley Vana agreed. ‘If we are leaving $83 million on the table, that is just crazy,\u2019 she said. ‘We need to figure out … what is it that we need to do. We need to do it now. Enough with the talk.” We are in the Twilight Zone. They have $83 million in unused food stamps. We have three agencies — the county community food alliance, the Department of Children and Families and the county commissioners — and they\u2019re in a panic over $83 million in unclaimed food stamps thinking that there are people starving to death because of this. <\/p>\n

Now, the market will tell us if people are starving. They\u2019re going to find a way to get food. They\u2019re either going to steal it or they\u2019re going to find a way to get the food stamps. Can you imagine all of the Chicken McNuggets you could buy with $83 million in food stamps? You could open 25 brand-new McDonald\u2019s in Port St. Lucie — and never run out of Chicken McNuggets, and never have to pay the expense of another 911 call…ever! These people make Barney Frank look responsible, and smart. Oh. Wait. Wait. You know what? ‘Calls for emergency assistance made to the 211 help hotline have increased by 30 percent, Stevens said.\u2019 I would say, then, that you\u2019re maxed out if you\u2019ve still got $83 million unused food stamps. Did you know what 211 was? (interruption) I didn\u2019t \u2019til I read this story. I had no idea. I guess this is the work of the community food alliance, the Department of Children and Families, and the county commissioners. 2-1-1. Hang on. Can I…? I\u2019m going to call them. Well, you can\u2019t hear because my microphone moves the phone. I want to call 211 and see what happens. Can you call 211 and put it on the air? Can you do it? (interruption) All right. You sure you can do this? I don\u2019t want to sit here and have to vamp. All right. We\u2019re going to call \u2019em up. I just want to see who answers. <\/p>\n

TELEPHONE: (push-button tones) Beep…beep…beep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I\u2019ll report a starvation. You know, somewhere in Loxahatchee.<\/p>\n

TELEPHONE: (ringing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doobee-doob-doo-doo-doop-doo.<\/p>\n

WOMAN RECORDING: Thank you for calling 211. Para continuare en el espanol, aprema a numero siete<\/emphasize>. (pause) If you are calling about a homeless hot team appointment, please press 6.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A what?<\/p>\n

WOMAN RECORDING: If you need information on community resources, or if you need somebody to talk to, please press 3. If you are having thoughts of suicide, please press 2. Calls to 2-1-1 may be monitored for quality control purposes. <\/p>\n

TELEPHONE: (electronic squealing noise)<\/p>\n

RUSH: What, did they hang up on us? <\/p>\n

TELEPHONE: (electronic squealing noise)<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is that? Oh, they\u2019re waiting for a response? That\u2019s what you get at 211 when they\u2019re waiting for a response? Well, what was the suicide? Hit that. I feel like that after reading the…<\/p>\n

TELEPHONE: (push-button tone) Beep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, don\u2019t hit that! Hang up. I don\u2019t want to deal with that. I don\u2019t want to deal with that. Because you know what they\u2019ll do? They\u2019ll send a fire truck out here and then all hell will break loose.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One thing we\u2019ve learned — and this is probably more applicable for Port St. Lucie than Palm Beach County, but it\u2019s going to spread everywhere. If you go to McDonald\u2019s and they don\u2019t have McNuggets, call 2-1-1 not 9-1-1. That\u2019s what they need to advertise is a 211 number. If people knew what the 211 number was. Obviously a story in the Palm Beach County is not enough to get it out to a lot of people. I\u2019m doing more to help starvation in Palm Beach County right now than anybody else has, 211. Can you imagine the number of people calling them now just to play jokes? Ohhh. ‘Press 6 for McNuggets, 7 for food stamps — and do you want them FedExed overnight or second day?\u2019 That\u2019s what I\u2019d do if I were on the community food alliance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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