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 find it interesting that they say, “Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children,” the money word being “healthy” in front of the word food. Why didn’t they just say food and leave out the word “healthy?”
This appears to be another propaganda piece. Reader beware.
The Left is having trouble keeping the lies straight. Should the government step in because children are obese or should the government step in because children are starving?
Two things are certain, however:
1). The government should step in;
2). It’s for The Children.
Where’s WIC?? They give away free milk, oj, peanut butter, all that stuff to pregnant women and young children
Heck, I know someone who gets it and they go to her house and put the stuff in the refrigerator for her!!
Hey you cynical sams and gloomy guses!
El zee-rho and mochelle are winning the war against chilhood obesity!
I mean sheesh...
Can I get a good press secretary ovah heah? We need some spin pronto!
Here is an issue going unreported in the MSM.
Here in FL we have a destroyed construction industry. Many men are working 2 days a week instead of 5. They get paid by the hour so they have no cash.
My son has told me many of the young and middle age men are coming into work and they have no food, haven’t been able to eat. There are a lot of them that are divorced with kids, so they have child support to pay and that leaves them nothing to live on.
My son’s been quite upset about it. We’ve fed a few of them.
Tells you all you need to know. These people aren't dead weight. They're gangrene. I'll agree that it's not the dead flesh's fault if you (the liberals) will agree that it must be cut off.
My mother knew how to feed 5 people on a pound of ground beef and what she could get out of the garden; or she would literally go to the meat shop and get a bag of bones to crack with a hammer (get to the marrow, you know) and make soup, if we couldn't afford the ground beef. She would ask the grocer for fruit ready to be thrown in the garbage, pare off the bad spots, and make a cut-up fruit salad or juice the good half of the orange!
And at no point did we kids think ourselves deprived. Far from it. We always had our parents' love, attention, discipline, guidance, and care.
Until his last 6 years on the job, my father never made more thn the minimum wage, and yet at the end of his life he owned his own home and had savings: not debt, savings. Which he bequeathed to us, providing to the last!
Boston has deprived children, that I believe. Not because of the scarcity of plain good food, but the scarcity of plain good parenting.
Yep. I wonder how many of these families in ‘poverty’ with ‘starving’ kids have multiple flat screen t.v.s, cell phones, computers, etc...
My sister’s husband got laid off last year and they resorted to the ‘food card’ program. They were GIVING away all the stuff they were getting from the food bank for it was more than their cupboards could hold!
BS, total BS......
Now we’re to believe that in Food Stamp USA these kids are starving?
We also have the breakfast and school lunches for the underprivileged children.
2 things, some children are just small children and they call them under weight, they always tried to make a big deal of my granddaughter who has a very delicate bone frame and at average weight would have been overweight. They acted that way about my boys too and even as adults they both only weigh 135.
The other is the drugs, the drinking and the SELFISH mothers who sell their food stamps while their children do without.
“It’s hard to maintain a diet that is healthy.’’
BULL!!! It’s amazing how cheaply and healthily you can feed a family if you only would try.
Sorry, it’s a little difficult to imagine anyone not getting sufficient government aid to eat in Moscow by the Bay.
Something’s not right here.
Soetero’s work to convert the US into North Korea is succeeding. Give the guy credit.
Libs just ramping up to fight the fact that our country is broke because of 60 years of giveaway programs.
There is no excuse for this really. Except that parents probably don’t have a clue how to stretch a dollar for food, don’t know how or/not willing to do the work required to actually cook and prepare food (which is cheaper), spend food money on junk/prepared food, OR spend money on alcohol/cigarettes/drugs that should be spent taking care of basic needs. We are in a dependent, ignorant culture that does very little for themselves and are not very resourceful unless it is doing someone out of something.
There is no excuse for this really. Except that parents probably don’t have a clue how to stretch a dollar for food, don’t know how or/not willing to do the work required to actually cook and prepare food (which is cheaper), spend food money on junk/prepared food, OR spend money on alcohol/cigarettes/drugs that should be spent taking care of basic needs. We are in a dependent, ignorant culture that does very little for themselves and are not very resourceful unless it is doing someone out of something.
Nonsense, there is a childhood obesity epidemic.
Dr. needs to get with the program.
Years back my SIL found herself a single mom with a deadbeat dad and two kids to feed. She had little to no work experience. So she took up hunting and fishing. Nowadays she can out hunt and out fish anyone. She found the Lord too, btw. He is always one part of the equation that seems to be missing in stories like this one out of Boston.
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.
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Ditto.