Thanks John
Posted on 11/25/2007 9:15:29 AM PST by John Semmens
Presidential candidate and former senator John Edwards (D-NC) has released a plan to fight domestic hunger and called on Congress to immediately take action to fund a program that would provide universal food services for all Americans.
“Differences in nutrition are yet another manifestation of the ‘two Americas’ I’ve been talking about for the last four years,” Edwards declared. “On the one hand, there are those eating steak and caviar. On the other, we see people eating out of trash cans. We should be ashamed.”
Edwards’ six-point proposal is modeled on the Canadian National Health Service. It calls for Congress to pass a bill that would provide for conveniently located government-run cafeterias in every neighborhood “where all can receive a balanced diet of wholesome food,” Edwards asserted. “The poor must be cared for. The rich must be barred from taking more than their fair share of nature’s bounty.”
It is Edwards’ contention that over the long run, his plan will save money. “First, there will be tremendous economies-of-scale,” Edwards claimed. “By feeding everyone at centralized cafeterias we will be able to buy in bulk and conserve on preparation and clean-up tasks. Second, we will reduce the burdens on our health care system by combating the diseases of under and over eating. Third, the daily walks to and from the government dining facilities will add a modicum of exercise for our largely sedentary and obese population.”
The Edwards’ plan projects that eventually, society will also save on housing costs since dwelling units will no longer have to include space for cooking or dining activities.
“We will attain the equality envisioned by our nation’s founders and do it in a very cost-effective manner,” Edwards boasted. “The pursuit of happiness will be brought one step closer to realization for all Americans.”
House Speaker Nancy (D-Calif.) said that “While Senator Edwards’ proposal has a lot of merit for most Americans, I cannot see it passing without some exemptions. I represent a very wealthy district. Many of my constituents will not accept the idea of dining with the lower classes. Perhaps if we allow for the purchase of ‘dining credits’ I will be able to sell the plan to them.”
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.... and tofu in every pot ....
If Edwards would loosen up his own wallet, his latest crisis would be resolved.
I think we need gov’t run hair salons where everyone can go to get hairstyling, manicures, pedicures and tinting.
I think it’s more like one America eating fast foods and another America eating nutritionally balanced healthy meals. That’s more a matter of choice than anything.
I think I read about this last week.
I don’t know about where Mr. Edwards is, but where I live, we have numerous and sundry government and charity programs to feed the poor. We have food stamps (well, they no longer use stamps — instead the poor get what looks like a credit/debit card), we have church pantries, community pantries, the Salvation Army, rhw Boy Scouts, senior citizen food programs, school breakfasts and lunches, you name it. No one should be hungry. We don’t need to duplicate all these programs.
They weren’t even that loony in the Soviet Union or the Peoples Republic of China.
Edwards is truly crazy.
I did hear a fantastic radio show host say once, “the hunger problem in American can be solved by feeding them the homeless”.
Better he should have a plan to reduce the weight of the herds of grotesquely obese Hippo like fatties riding around in little electric carts, too fat to walk in grocery stores in America first. There’s more of them than skinny folks in America now.
Better he should have a plan to reduce the weight of the herds of grotesquely obese Hippo like fatties riding around in little electric carts, too fat to walk in grocery stores in America first. There’s more of them than skinny folks in America now.
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As a fat person, I tend to agree in the sense that the problem is not hunger, but rather, poor choices. There is plenty of good nutritious food out there, and yes, it’s available even to the poor. But the poor often don’t make the right choices. I always talk about seeing the little darlings waiting for the school buses a few steps from my driveway. Potato chips and soft drinks for breakfast. The school has a breakfast program, but where I live, the complaint has been that the children just don’t want the food. Some of them take the food, then throw it away. Of course, what these children really need is a parent or two who get up early and make breakfast for them. But I guess most people don’t do that anymore.
Why don't we just put Mr. Edwards in charge of an ant farm.
Thanks, I agree. Poor choices and just too much food. Food and eating is a major business in America. It’s not sustinence anymore, it’s a huge money making and generating business.
TV would go broke without food and drink advertising. EAT, EAT, EAT, BUY, BUY, BUY. Melted cheese and sugar on or in everything. Drink Bud, be happy and popular. Would you like fries, extra cheese and bacon with that? Wanna Supersize?
Food is also a big emotional and self medicating thing to ease or erase emotional problems, lonliness, fear, anxiety etc. People don’t eat just to stay alive
And I’m as guilty as the next person sometimes. I just had an overly expensive and fat laden dinner with friends last night because it was the friends daughter’s birthday. It would take Superman or Woman to say NO to some of the things on the menu or plate. No thanks, I’ll just have a carrot stick and a glass of water. Yeah, right.
I had dinner last week with friends at an “Italian” restaurant in Charlotte, NC and the bowl of linguine with clams was literally enough for 4 or 5 people. We took the extra home and I had some for breakfast and then 2 of us had more for lunch, that’s how much linguine was there.
I try to order soup with lunch or dinner to slow myself down and cut my appetite some.
Is it true it takes your brain 20 minutes to tell you that you’ve eaten enough and to stop?
Is it true it takes your brain 20 minutes to tell you that you’ve eaten enough and to stop?
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I don’t know if that is exactly true, but the conventional wisdom is that if you eat too fast, your brain doesn’t get the message that you’re full amd that’s why you overeat. I know some people who set timers or chew their food 30 times before swallowing. Whatever works, but we have to break ourselves of that habit of eating too fast.
I learned to eat fast on one of my first jobs — I didn’t get much lunch and often ate and worked at the same time. That’s not healthy. My mother was the world’s slowest eater. We would eat out — Dad, my brother and I would be done...and Mom was still on her first course. But she was 100 pounds soaking wet...so that may have been part of her secret for staying thin.
Thanks John
Pass the cranberry sauce, please.
*burp*
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So do I. It's called lunch.
I didn’t bother to read it, is he going to let his hair grow long and be harvested to feed the poor?
Agreed. If San Antonio is any indication, going hungry isn’t even an issue. It’s impossible to imagine a city with more obese people. You can go into any mall or store and see that over 75% are overweight. I think Edwards the sleaziest person ever to run for elective office in the United States. In fact, he knows this. He thinks that getting elected lends a patina of respectibility to his life. He’s wrong. You show me a man who makes his living in an ignominious way (legalzed robbery and extortion) and I’ll show you an ignominious man. Mario Puzo had a great line in his book “The Godfather” that didn’t make the cut for the screenplay. That line was, “A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more money than a hundred men with guns.” Remind you of someone? Look up the word shyster in the dictionary. There should be a photo of Edwards accompanying that entry.
I think there’s also a line from a Bob Dylan song about robbing somebody with a fountain pen, which probably also refers to lawyers.
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