36 million are starving? Did he pull that out his scotch bottle?
Maybe it's time to pull out of the War on Poverty.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err11/err11.pdf
Turns out children were hungry at some time in 274,000 households (.7 % of households with children). On any given day, 40-50000 households (about 0.1%) had a hungry child.
His statistics aren’t about hunger, they’re about “food security”. The data he presented were households that, at some time (possibly once) during the year felt they had difficulty securing adequate food.
The only people I see starving are the one's that are dieting.
This country has the fattest poor people in the world.