I've lived in India (average per capita income is $1000, although there are many that make less than a dollar a day, I have in-laws from Mexico, and grandparents that grew up in the great depression. I've seen that children can usually be fed unless under the most extreme of conditions.
Now we're to believe that in Food Stamp USA these kids are starving? I wonder if drug tests on these mothers might reveal how some of their income is being spent.
I agree with you.
Forget the apple slices... kids need more fries not less in their happy meals!
Well, gee whiz, then why did Mickey D’s just unveil a Happy Meal with more fruit? Don’t tell Geraldine Obama about this, she says our kids are all too fat!
I’m confused. I thought all the kids were obese from eating too much “unhealthy” food.
If there is any veracity to this story, it indicates a real problem in America - not a lack of food, but an overabundence of stupidity in young mothers and an epidemic of broken families.
This has more to do with Parental Neglect than it does with the parents being poor.
Hogwash. Food banks, food stamps, soup kitchens, blah, blah, blah. There's no reason for a child to go hungry in this country (except, perhaps, lazy parents).
Their parents are too busy playing online games to make their kids dinner.
Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:00:03 AM by SeekAndFind
The Census Bureau reported last fall that 43 million Americans — one in seven of us — were poor. But what is poverty in America today?
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So. For the article to say... "Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children..." is a lie. It all boils down to a matter of choice.
You don't expect them to use the food stamps and ADC checks to feed their kids, do you?
That money is for booze and the lotto!
You are a RACIST if you don't believe that you owe them more of your paycheck.
More backstories for the budget debate.
Ah, well. If The Ministry Of Truth says that's the way it is....
Correction, "MAKE 'EM EAT CAKE", Moochelle
Correction again, "THE HELL WITH 'EM, I'VE GOT MINE", Moochelle.
One guy on the board posted “Based on the photo provided, the mother of these two children had the hundreds of dollars needed for the visable tatoos and piercings she is sporting”
What a great observation. It really says it all, doesn’t it?
I bet a lot of the “parents” of these kids have big-screen TVs, cable, cell phones, liquor, cigs, and even cars. And probably a weight problem.
In my experience a lot of urban poor don’t cook both due to laziness and the fact that they can’t carry much in the way of groceries on the bus.
Instead you’ll find them at McDonalds
Oh, puleez! What a load of hooey. We didn't have a stove for about 15 years because we wisely put a freezer in the space that was for the stove. We used a microwave, instead. And I can cook a delicious whole turkey for Thanksgiving in one so don't give that song and dance. It's not rocket science to putting a healthy meal on the table. Every heard of fresh fruits and vegetables? Put down the cigarettes, alcohol and crack pipes and these losers might be able to afford to provide for their children.
Yep, sad but true. I’d say if you looked at how/what the “mother” spent the money on in these instances, it wouldn’t be food.
Okay...I am confused. Have we an obesity problem or a starvation problem?
Please... I don’t know where to turn.