It is my opinion that we do not have any level of real malnutrition in this country.
We may have nutritionally deficient people who also happen to be poor, but I believe that would be due more to poor choices when using the resources provided to them to obtain food, rather than an insufficiency of resources.
Dinesh D’Souza, in his excellent book “What’s So Great About America” had a passage about a conversation he had with an acquaintance in Bombay who, when asked why he wanted to go to America, said: “I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.”
It is 100% undeniable truth that an American poverty is far, FAR different that an Indian, African, or just about any other kind of poverty, and not in a worse way.
Most of our “poor” are obese. This makes me pretty suspicious of their maudlin claims.
They are eating too much junk foods, fatty foods, chips, sugary foods full of bizarre additives that make them sick and give them diabetes. Diabetes is a rapidly expanding expense for Medicaid.
You are right they are nutritionally deficient from all those crap foods. They are starving themselves this way but not from not getting enough taxpayers money to eat well enough, eat a decent diet. We all know how fat our poor people are these days. Mostly from a high junk food diet and watching their 50" LED TVs all day. Its not hard to cook and eat a lot of beans and rice plus chicken, meat, vegetables and fruits. They choose not to plus some are too dumb to do so.
Their children are also vegetating and become miniature Michelin Tire Men like the six year old boy I saw the other day
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!