The libs love to create a crisis, so they can use money and education to rescue us poor fools. The real problem here are words like obesity and poverty. The standards have changed so much over the years you have 140 lb women and 180 pound men classified as "obese" and anyone who makes less than 80,000 dollars a year as "poor"..
a couple of years ago, we were technically "under the poverty level" and yet owned 3 well maintained, running vehicles, owned our own home, sent one of our children to private school, and lived with all the "normal" comforts of American society. We were able to do that because we didn't bog ourselves down in credit card debt and only bought what we could pay for.
I live in an area of high welfare use/abuse and have seen many families on welfare using cell phones and owning fancy stereo systems and big screen tvs. The word poverty in this country is often a joke, to see true poverty you must go to India or South America or Mexico.
And unlike the earlier post from someone else, they don't spend their money feeding their kids. They spend it on what you said: cellphones, hairdo's, new cars, stereos etc..they send their kids to the store to get very non-nutrious foods like chips, soda and candy.