One in six New Yorkers hungry, says advocacy group (Hillary's New York)

NY Daily News ^ | 11/22/07 | Robin Stringer

[Kid Shelleen]

Probably bogus numbers but it would be interesting if Hillary was asked about this problem.

[ozzymandus]

May I be the first to call bullshit on this whining leftist propaganda??

[Darkwolf377]

And one in four homeless is a veteran.

If I listened to all of these cries of alarm, I'd believe I was the only person in America with a place to live, food to eat, and not beating my spouse.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I would love to ask Hillary about this. What has she done to fight hunger in New York????? does she believe the problem is this bad??? does she blame it on Bush?????????

[goldstategop]

I thought liberalism licked hunger in America. Democrats run New York State. So why is hunger there still a problem?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[stylin19a]

A food stamp program to meet increasing need is gaining increased participation, and low-income New Yorkers are receiving $43 million more a month in stamp benefits than in January 2002, the group said.

is this possible ? 43 million MORE ? a month ? in just NY ?

43 million more than how much ? and they're still starving ?

[Kid Shelleen]

She voted for the war. All that money could have been spent to feed the hungry children of NY /s

[bilhosty]

This crap again? I thought even Dan Rather said these stories were only “metaphorically true”. Then he said they didn’t really mean that people were hungry when they said people were hungry. Give us a break.

[goldstategop]

It would help to know the monthly breakdown. New York is a high cost of living state. After taxes, after the rent and utilities, what's left over is for food. The government could give people more money in their monthly budget by cutting taxes.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[TLEIBY308]

If you can’t afford crack and food you should just buy food.

[Don W]

THis is up there with “one in three of your neighbors was helped by the United Way THIS YEAR” bullpuckey being spread right now in a funding drive.

What a load of tripe.

[jtill]

You have to remember that, according to Hillary low-income in New York includes those making $80,000. So, with these new “low-income families” joining those already on food stamps, you could certainly have a huge increase in participation.

Also, you have to include those who are neither low-income nor hungry who will gladly stand in line at a soup kitchen just because the food is free.

[mcenedo]

I thought the problem was obesity.

[Russ]

If one in five are hungry then 90% of those “hungry” are on diets. I know I get hungry as anything when I diet.

[RichInOC]

Feed the obese to the starving.

I keep telling them, but do they listen?

[YHAOS]

Desperation numbers.

[4yearlurker]

Why ask Hillary? She will say that:

It is George Bush’s failed policies or we have to tax the rich. There are eager throngs of sheeple out there waiting to be spoon fed this socialist propaganda.

[NativeNewYorker]

one in six New Yorkers, some 1.3 million people

See, there's no hunger upstate, thanks to King Eliot. There's only hunger in NYC, where the eeeeeeevel man WHO SAID HE WAS A REPUBLICAN has been mayor for a few years.

This crap is so stupid, I think it cost me an IQ point just reading the article.

[oldenuff2no]

I agree this is crap!!!!!
People need to stop spending their welfare money on booze and drugs and then telling the world that their kids are hungry.

[freespirited]

I just read the report. It is about as amateurish as can be and does not support the headline. It does not say that one in 6 New Yorkers are hungry. It says this:

According to the Coalition’s estimate based on federal data for 2006 at the state level, 1.3 million New Yorkers – one in six City residents – still live in households which are food insecure, meaning they cannot afford an adequate and consistent supply of food.

Based not on their liberalism, but the level of competence with which this survey was designed, executed, and interpreted, I would not trust ANY estimate offered by these folks. That aside, the estimate refers to an "adequate supply of food." I am pretty sure that means a nutritionally adequate supply. So if you can afford a diet that doesn't leave you hungry but is short of some bureaucratic nutritional guideline, voila! You are food insecure--proof that the gummint needs to throw another billion at this problem.

Let us give thanks that FReepers are not stupid enough to fall for this nonsense.