Food hunger in America: More Hype than Reality. Why?

daniel1212 ^ | Nov. 22, 2015 | daniel1212

[huldah1776]

how about only charging interest on loans to foreigners not family (which in Moses’ time was all the Israelites)?

[daniel1212]

Suddenly it struck us! We had given $87 of that “little over $100.” We were the rich family in the church! Hadn’t the missionary said so? Deep down, I knew that we were actually a rich family.

Read it all. Thanks! Liberals sure would like to work to seduce such into thinking they were victims who deserved what others earn. Which this excludes charity, and the positive response to such, as it is considered a right to have what other's earn.

[AlaskaErik]

Any big city pizza delivery guy can tell you that welfare queens are 200 to 400 pounds and have a flat screen TV as big as their rear end as well as a smart phone for every person in the house, who also all wear $200 tennis shoes.

[daniel1212]

There is ZERO hunger in the USA. Zero. There are no poor people in the USA. I’ve tried to give away things that I just couldn’t. 15 years ago those items could have been sold instead of given away, yet, no takers. There are no poor in America.

That is why the term "food insecurity" is used, with the crafty questions to make it a real problem, to justify the bureaucracy which needs it. Let private concerns do so, but which do not use hype, and show personal caring. .

[daniel1212]

I can tell you “yes” to several ofbthose questions. We definitely had to cut back on our grocery bills for lack of money but we’ve always had enough to eat. If everything keep’s going up because of the shyster in office we may not though. Just a few years ago we were producing income in excess of $200K for many years. Taxes kicked our tail every year.

Yes, yet as one facing hunger daily you must be insecure, and need to become dependent on the government.

[9YearLurker]

I remember in the mid-2000s (the Bush administration) getting chased down hard enough by a census worker that I finally relented for a short series of interviews—and they were absurd, with loaded questions fishing for anything that could be construed as my suffering “food insecurity” at any time during the month. It was clearly a ridiculous push poll on the “issue”.

Sounded like the sort of thing I might have expected during a Democrat administration, but I guess it would make sense if it were for and driven by the USDA food industry types.

Really it is getting harder to tell the two parties apart all the time.

[daniel1212]

A homeless person in a major NE city can make serious money daily, though there are souls in need in different ways.

[Tired of Taxes]

I assume that means we personally should not charge interest to family members? I’d go along with that, if I had money to lend. lol

[jsanders2001]

> Yes, yet as one facing hunger daily you must be insecure, and need to become dependent on the government.

that's what they want. Take the mark and vote Dimmicrap...

[daniel1212]

Eventually, everything did work out. But, now I have no trouble believing there must be some very poor people, with very little food to eat, in this country. There are some who fall btwn the tracks, and esp. in the country perhaps, while you choose not to use the food pantry route, or could not.

But choice, having left all, i lived in a church doing ministry full time w/ no pay, and sometimes we had no food but salt and pepper, but God would provide something. A casserole would be dumped into a lot of potatoes we bought cheap, to make it streacth. Baked our own bread, one packet of yet to 10 loaves. Praise God He was with us and brought us thru. But i still try to be very careful about spending money.

[daniel1212]

Good analysis. I’m continually annoyed by those public service radio ads..... I suppose doing that is better than just taking more money from people through taxes, though.

Yet they are related, as stated, 'Huber finds that the Feeding America spots are distributed via the Ad Council, which the US Department of Agriculture is a major Ad Council client of. And "By feeding the false perception of rampant child hunger, the Ad Council is aiding and abetting the eternal bureaucratic demand for more studies, more personnel, greater influence and bigger budgets."

[Twinkie]

I’m old. Growing up, Momma cooked beans & potatoes, biscuits, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage. Repeat. I rode my
bike to the store down the road and bought a bit of candy
& cookies, 8 oz. cold drinks. We ate simple. Never went
hungry. - Today, a lot of people are making horrible choices
and having junk food all the time. - Be thankful for what
you have. That’s the ticket!

[daniel1212]

and they were absurd, with loaded questions fishing for anything that could be construed as my suffering “food insecurity” at any time during the month.

Keep at it and you would eventually become hungry, and so...

Really it is getting harder to tell the two parties apart all the time.

One just does things slower. But the evangelical church needs to focus on being a distinctive holy nation, and alternative to a decaying society, rather than hoping to a return of Mayberry.

[daniel1212]

http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html#NATIONAL

[Tired of Taxes]

But i still try to be very careful about spending money.

Same here. Probably we all have dealt with hardship. I hope the experience taught my sons something about money: As the old maxim says, save for a rainy day!

[Slyfox]

The people I feel really sorry for, who I believe are really poor are the mentally ill.

[daniel1212]

2020 Household Food Security
in the United States in 2020 is here: https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/102076/err-298.pdf?v=6505.3

Questions Used to Assess the Food Security of
Households in the CPS Food Security Supplement are on p. 5