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A Recipe for Big Government: "Food Insecurity"
Youtube.com ^ | 10-31-2023 | John Stossel

Posted on 10/31/2023 9:33:18 AM PDT by Pol-92064

The government tells us 33 million Americans suffer from food insecurity!

Really? 33 million Americans are hungry?

(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: food; stamps
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As Ronald Reagan said, "The scariest thing in America is a person telling you 'I'm with the government and I'm here to help'"
1 posted on 10/31/2023 9:33:18 AM PDT by Pol-92064
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2 posted on 10/31/2023 9:36:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Pol-92064

the government will never admit that it is government causing most of the problems today.

the government just knows they must help by doing something, when we all know it is best for government to do nothing.


3 posted on 10/31/2023 9:36:52 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Pol-92064

When you have the most obese population in the world, “food insecurity” makes some kind of perverse sense.


4 posted on 10/31/2023 9:37:32 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Pol-92064

If this is true, why did our azho politicians decide to import 8 million more of them when Jo Jo Aho took over? Doesn’t make sense.


5 posted on 10/31/2023 9:38:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We're seeing why the "younger" generations are not patriotic. The big fans of terrorists.)
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To: Pol-92064

FERAL GOVERNMENT BUSINESS MODEL

1. Create a problem.

2. Peddle a catastrophic “solution” to the problem you created.


6 posted on 10/31/2023 9:39:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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I'll believe there's a food shortage only AFTER the gubment quits paying farmers to keep land fallow --- most of the time ostensibly to keep from growing too much food and causing food prices to be too low for farmers to stay in business.

At least that's their ostensible purpose.

7 posted on 10/31/2023 9:41:00 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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A population able to purchase more food than cash strapped real working people-— the food stamp crowd is markedly morbidly obese. Big fat trough eating stoned lazy hogs. Hogs work more than they do.


8 posted on 10/31/2023 9:42:12 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: Pol-92064

After seeing how *parents* on welfare cared for their children, yes, I can believe it.

However, the kids are hungry not because of *food insecurity* but because the parents don’t take care of the kids and don’t feed them. They spend their food stamp money on drugs and themselves and let the kids fend for themselves.


9 posted on 10/31/2023 9:44:39 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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Food Stamps are just another bloated, out-of-control, corrupt Federal Program

I know an entire department of students at an Ivy League university who are getting food-stamps. These are children of doctors, Wall Street bankers, diplomats, etc... who simply applied and because there are ZERO checks or management, particularly in bloated blue states and cities, are able to get $300+ per month


10 posted on 10/31/2023 9:45:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Pol-92064

they mean millions of “New Americans” and the millions on the way and to be born.


11 posted on 10/31/2023 9:45:29 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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I just don’t understand how those welfare queens are getting food stamps, WIC and all kids of freebies and their kids are getting free breakfast and lunch in addition with backpacks of food sent with them over the weekends when it it thought they might be those that get no food over the weekend.


12 posted on 10/31/2023 9:46:07 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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“”””When you have the most obese population in the world”””””

We did make number 10 but not number one, with Jordan at 11 and Saudi Arabia at 12 then Qatar, Libya, Turkey, Egypt, and so on.

“According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the most obese countries are primarily located in the Pacific and the Middle East. The Pacific island nations of Nauru, Cook Islands, and Palau have the highest rates of obesity, with over 30% of their populations being classified as obese. In the Middle East, countries such as Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia also have high obesity rates, with over 25% of their populations being obese.”
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/most-obese-countries/#:~:text=According%20to%20data%20from%20the,populations%20being%20classified%20as%20obese.


13 posted on 10/31/2023 9:46:32 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: PGR88

I was an actual starving college student. I couldn’t get d1ck. The told me to get a part-time job and loans.


14 posted on 10/31/2023 9:46:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: metmom

It started when schools became the primary feeding place for kids, instead of parents making their kids’ lunches.


15 posted on 10/31/2023 9:47:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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For some kids, that’s about the only food they get.


16 posted on 10/31/2023 9:48:07 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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How do they manage that— the needs testing for an Ivy League fully paid “student”— their income has to include the tuition already paid. No checks... amazing.


17 posted on 10/31/2023 9:49:17 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: Tell It Right

We started growing some of our own food, but it is a lot of work, takes more land than expected and water.

All worth it.


18 posted on 10/31/2023 9:49:50 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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For some kids, that’s about the only food they get.

Because of bad parents.

19 posted on 10/31/2023 9:49:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pol-92064

food deserts, food insecurity, then what’s up wi all the ghetto-pottumsis everywhere???


20 posted on 10/31/2023 9:50:50 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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