Posted on 03/18/2025 4:45:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Leftists who indulge fantasies of communism in America have no idea what it’s like to run out of food.
I am in the middle of a five-day modified fast, so I am experiencing some hunger, just as I have several times before in my life: when I ran out of money as a college student, when I experienced the bare shelves of Eastern Europe during the communist era, and when I fasted for health reasons.
Although hunger is familiar to me, I was not surprised to learn that most Americans have not really experienced hunger. According to the Census Bureau’s Household Survey, 88% of Americans feel “secure” about having enough food, and most of the remaining 12% could find adequate food through charities or government programs.
Throughout most of human history, however, hunger was far more common than it is today. In a sense, it is “normal” to go without food at times, just as it is to experience heat and cold, though both hunger and exposure can be dangerous and even fatal for some persons. Although many Americans wish to forget these harsh facts of life, it’s important that they do not. It may seem as if we have gotten past the possibility of hunger or inadequate shelter, but history teaches that we have not.
Many populations still live with hunger today, and many over the past century have been thrust into terrible conditions. It’s worth reading a book called Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner and Shaun Whiteside, because it provides a detailed description of conditions in Germany immediately after WWII. Within a decade, the German population of 72 million (along with hundreds of millions in other European countries) went from relative well-being to almost universal hunger and need.
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I wouldn’t registee my garden even with free compost and drip-watering systems.
I wouldn’t register my garden even with free compost and drip-watering systems.
“I often look around at the world and thank God He has set me in a time and place to be so fortunate.”
I do that all the time, too. And that I was born in a Christian family.
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