Brother, Can You Spare a Crumb?- RYME Youth Skolaz Report on Budget Genocide

h5 span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times;"Brother can you spare me a crumb? /span/h5 h5 span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times;"iThe Following reports on budget genocide were written by the Revolutionary Youth Media Education (span data-scayt_word="RYME" data-scaytid="2"RYME/span) span data-scayt_word="Skolaz" data-scaytid="3"Skolaz/span at POOR Magazine who attended the Bake Sale for Critical Services at City Hall in San Francisco and interviewed David Campos, SF Board Supervisor./i/span/h5 p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times;"bFrom span data-scayt_word="Kamaria" data-scaytid="4"Kamaria/span, 14/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; I am span data-scayt_word="kamaria" data-scaytid="5"kamaria/span span data-scayt_word="shanndoah" data-scaytid="6"shanndoah/span and I am 14 years old./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"Do you think that the budget cuts are okay? Before you answer that question Irsquo;d like to explain what budget cuts REALLY are. Budget cuts effect the whole economy in many ways. 1000rsquo;s of people are being laid of from their jobs because of budget cuts. More than 8 million dollars have been cut during budget cuts. On Thursday June 23suprd/sup 2011, there was a bake sale titled ldquo; Brother, Can You Spare Me A Crumb? ldquo; on the city hall steps/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; On that day I got the chance to ask David Campos , a progressing supervisor who represents district 9 on the board of supervisors , what he felt about budget cuts . He feels that ldquo; budget cuts are effecting the whole economy because span data-scayt_word="stoping" data-scaytid="7"stoping/span people from doing certain things that they like. ldquo; he said that dependingnbsp; on what is cut, it could really hurt the economy and our city.nbsp; /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Examples of the cuts are that there was a 1,993,969 dollar budget cut from the human service agency , a 3,643,718 dollar reduction from the heath department , 579,264 dollars was cut from the department of aging and adult services, and 2,308,414 was reduced from the department of children family and youth. Now why would the government want to take money from the health department? There are millions of people who need health services every single day. If budget cuts keep being made to areas like health , children and family , schools , and elders then are whole economy will continue to decline slowly. /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;nbsp; In conclusion, now what do you think about budget cuts? span data-scayt_word="Im" data-scaytid="8"Im/span pretty sure you changed span data-scayt_word="yout" data-scaytid="9"yout/span mind now that you know what budget cuts REALLY are. I donrsquo;t think that budget cuts are okay and they never will be. /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times;"bFrom span data-scayt_word="Tatyana" data-scaytid="10"Tatyana/span, 15/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"These budget cuts are terrorizing people in many ways. People who are tired of being in the governments choke-hold. /span/p p span style="font-family: Times;"On 6/21/11 me and my fellow poverty scholars had the chance to interview big men in suits, one was named David Campos, he is a progressive supervisor,who kept things going for the poor people in poverty, but he couldnrsquo;t say so much for his fellow supervisor friends. He helps the people of district nine well./span/p p span style="font-family: Times;"The way I feel about budget cuts is in schools is less opportunities. I am span data-scayt_word="Tatyana" data-scaytid="11"Tatyana/span, span data-scayt_word="im" data-scaytid="12"im/span 15 years old and span data-scayt_word="im" data-scaytid="13"im/span in high school. I have not yet seen the massive budget cuts at my school yet because there wasnrsquo;t much to begin with. In schools, budget cuts are hard on students and parents. To have budget cuts means no bus rides, no free lunches, no art, cooking or band class, and sometimes its down to pink slips to teachers./span/p p span style="font-family: Times;"The budget cuts at the brother can you spare a crumb protest were abouthellip;./spanbr / span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;Senior services, span data-scayt_word="houseless" data-scaytid="14"houseless/span services, health services, children services./span/p p span style="font-family: Times;"In senior services they are cutting $122,419 cut from senior centers and activity for adults with disabilities. In housing they are eliminating funding for eviction prevention and other legal services for over 1,000 public housing span data-scayt_word="tenants.In" data-scaytid="1"tenants.In/span health services they are proposing 16% reduction from the homeless. In children health services both childcare and after-school centers including beacon centers reduced. And the violence prevention efforts reduced to 54 programs serving at-risk youth by over $1,000,000./span/p p span style="font-family: Times;"I learned that if we donrsquo;t start taking these budget cuts seriously and start standing together to the board of supervisors and the mayor, then we will lose the true value of school, learning, and lose our future to make good memories./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times;"bFrom span data-scayt_word="Rashida" data-scaytid="15"Rashida/span, 12,/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"I am span data-scayt_word="Rashida" data-scaytid="16"Rashida/span span data-scayt_word="Talibah" data-scaytid="17"Talibah/span Banks Reed and I go to public school and I am 12 years old./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; How Budget cuts effect me in a way because teachers at my school are getting laid off and more children are trying to get in my school and they cannot because the teachers are getting laid off, and now there are less teachers./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"Me and my posse went to a bake sale at city hall in San Francisco on June 21supspan data-scayt_word="st" data-scaytid="18"st/span/supnbsp; and there was people that were protesting about the budget cuts./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"The cuts include/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"$900,000 in cuts to supportive housing takes money out of SSI retro checks for span data-scayt_word="CAAP" data-scaytid="19"CAAP/span recipients to cover shelternbsp; costs/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"Elimination of two job training programs for homeless and formerly homeless people /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"A variety of cuts to transitional housing for youth and families /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"As you can see budget cuts can make you lose your job and may lose your housing and many other things. So donrsquo;t Mess with budget cuts/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;"!/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times;"bFrom span data-scayt_word="Ya’mil" data-scaytid="20"Yarsquo;mil/span, 12/b/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"Budget cuts are just excuses for not getting people off the streets.nbsp; The government wastes the money killing people in other countries. the government lays people off butnbsp; they donrsquo;t put the money to a good cause like getting people off streets or giving people money who needs it for homes./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; I am span data-scayt_word="Yamil" data-scaytid="21"Yamil/span Chambers and I am 12 years old. I am a student in middle school. budget cuts affect me by cutting classes in school. When budget cuts interact with schools it also takes books from classrooms/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The event was a bake sale at city hall. the bakenbsp; sale was donenbsp; to prevent cuts to critical services. Some examples were a cut to the Department of aging and adult services of this money $579,264 reduction /span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="" span style="font-family: Times;"As you can see that budget cuts or the government shows no mercy for anyone not even your children the people the government cares for nobody but them selves. This should provoke people to take budget cuts more seriously .now heed my warning be cautious how you deal with budget cuts./span/p