I need a bailout because I wasn’t invited to Hef’s NYE party. ;)
Howard Dean has the answer.
He once said that it’s a myth that the Democrats don’t have any values. He said that Democrat values were that children shouldn’t go to bed hungry at night. I guess he was hinting that Republicans are in favor of children going hungry.
Well, now that Democrats control both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and the entire gov’t apparatus, look for expansion of food stamps and school lunch programs. We will have to prove yet again how liberal we are and how compassionate we are.
There are lots of children “going hungry” in this country, but for 99.9% of them, the cause is parents who are addicted to alcohol/drugs or gambling. And the solution is to take them away from their parents, not to give their parents more money or food stamps (which are readily converted to cash, either directly, or by re-selling the food).
Back in the Nixon-Kennedy days, the Democrats said that “Half the people of America go to bed hungry”. The Pubbies replied, “Yeah, because half of them are on a diet.”
Didn’t hear much along that line afterward.
Of course that was when the Pubbies still had a few cajones.
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
No reason for any kid in this US to go to bed hungry (real hunger not just, “hmmmm a little ice cream sounds good” hungry). If they are indeed in need of more nutrition it’s the fault of their parent(s) since there are plenty of avenues to get food into kids in the USA. I’m not going to feel the least bit guilty when we have the fattest *poor* people on the globe.
I worked for five years as the lunch lady at the elementary school my children attended. Now I admit the food was not always five star, but was generally edible and things kids like...you know, corn dogs, hamburgers, pizza, macaroni and cheese.
When you work in the kitchen, you are privy to who has free lunches and breakfasts. One of the things I noticed was that lots of the kids who were receiving free meals wore hundred dollar sneakers and other expensive clothes. Also, I knew many of the parents of these kids. They lied on their application to get the free meals. Most of them could afford to pay for lunch, they just didn’t want to and as long as you know the cut-off for income, you can lie. There is no oversight or investigation as to whether or not you lie on the form. And, I can’t tell you how many of those parents drove new cars including big SUV’s.
Lastly, you wouldn’t believe how much of that food ended up in the trash. Now, I don’t doubt that there are people, including children who are seriously hungry, but seriously hungry people do not throw food away, even bad food.
Food Security in the United States: Definitions of Hunger and Food Security
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General categories |
Detailed categories |
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Old label |
New label |
Description of conditions in the household |
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Food security |
Food security |
High food security |
No reported indications of food-access problems or limitations |
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Marginal food security |
One or two reported indications—typically of anxiety over food sufficiency or shortage of food in the house. Little or no indication of changes in diets or food intake |
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Food insecurity |
Food insecurity without hunger |
Low food security |
Reports of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet. Little or no indication of reduced food intake |
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Food insecurity |
Very low food security |
Reports of multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake |
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I’m hungry right now. Do I qualify for extra money to buy food even though I’m just hungry because it’s lunch time?
I have no statistics to back up my opinion here, but I find it very hard to believe that ‘lots’ of children are going hungry in the US. I’m sure there are there are some, for a variety of reasons, but not ‘lots’.
Heck!!
Mine howled this refrain DAILY!!!
Follow the bio-ethanol craze.
Burn 65 million tons of food every year.
Once again my local lib rag had a headline story last Thanksgiving about “hungry” area residents. This one was about the local food bank, and the people who worked there were worried that the thousands of “hungry” people in the county would not have enough food. So they interviewed some woman who was both a client and who worked part-time at the pantry. They had a photo of her. Let’s just say she didn’t look like she’d missed too many meals in the last year.