Stop buying cigarettes, beer, good chains, cable, smart phones, tattoos, and piercings..... and FEED YOUR KIDS!
My concern is that this nonsense is self-fulfilling. They will enact more socialist panaceas that will indeed leave most of us hungry.
I shop carefully, and my weekly grocery bill for four is $100, again, plus or minus a few dollars.
So, I feed my family for a week for the cost of four lunches or dinners at McD's. And, we eat pretty well. I could easily shave some more off that bill, if necessary.
The problem isn't a lack of food, or a lack of money. It's just a lack of intelligence and/or discipline.
I almost upchucked yesterday when I read that Sesame Street is going to introduce a “Hunger Muppet,” supposedly representing children who suffer from what they call “food insecurity,” to call attention to what they refer to as the “problem of hunger in the US.”
The only kids who may be hungry are those whose parents are too strung out on drugs or alcohol or partying to bother to feed them, but that’s not a new problem.
The whole point of this is to create an image of a desperate population waiting for socialist salvation.
I agree, as per usual, with Sowell’s viewpoint.
I was listening to a radio ad the other day that mentioned a similar statistic regarding the number of American’s who go to bed hungry, i.e., 1 in 6. This struck me as being hyperbole but it would have been more useful if Dr. Sowell could have provided some more up to date information on actual numbers.
We have the world’s richest and fattest poor people.
Several years ago, the three local network affiliates started drives to collect food for the needy at Christmas. They all made so much attention for themselves, they have since expanded their food drives to where they have one at least Quarterly, and the only goal is to try and top one another for the sheer weight of the donated food they collect.
Same goes at Christmas with toy drives. They try and out-collect each other for the sheer number, size and volume by weight in donated toys, all for supposedly disadvantaged children.
Same goes starting in early August when the school supply drives start up, collecting literally tons of donated school supplies that all of the parents of these supposedly “disadvantaged” kids cannot afford to purchase for them.
I’m betting that every single Freeper who reads these comments has seen the exact same things going on in the city they live in as well. We have this myth going that there are millions of “disadvantaged” kids that need all of this help, but there is never any kind of proof offered that the need actually exists, or that the people who are showing up to collect all of this free stuff actually need it in the first place.
Frankly, most of the “poor” I see are packing around more extra pounds than I am, have a newer cellphone than I do, newer shoes, the latest bling; the list of examples is endless. This is indeed a hoax that is being foisted on the public that still works for a living, and I’m sick of the non-stop demands to kick in ever increasing amounts of largess that I am expected to just cough up with no questions asked.
That's because a Republican was president. Ahh, back in the good old days when we used to go into poor neighborhoods, knock down doors and carry out everything in the pantry and refrigerator.
One trick is to define "hunger" creatively. One definition included hunger if you didn't have enough variety in your food, so if you are eating a lot of rice and beans because they are cheap, then you are hungry even if you've developed a gut from all the food you're eating. You can also be "hungry" if you are worried that you won't be able to buy enough food. So if you have to scrape to make ends meet, but you are still able to buy enough food after shaking out the couch cushions you will be counted as hungry.
From March 3, 2010:
The Obama administration announced Tuesday a new formula that will take into account a wider range of factors in determining who is poor. The Supplemental Poverty Measure will provide a more accurate portrait, the administration says, of how many Americans are struggling financially, though it will not entirely replace the existing poverty measure in use since the mid-1960s.
The new measure is expected to show that the poverty rate in America is higher than the number produced under the existing formula.
It is just like the time the feds redefined 'obesity'. I went to sleep while I wasn't obese and woke up obese because the government made me that way.
If we had actual poverty and hunger in these United States - we wouldn’t be importing it wholesale from the Third World.
He lied.
In 1948 when JFK was running for Congress he started a sentence, "Now that no one goes to bed hungry in America ...," and then pitched some other program he was advocating. My quote may not be exact, but it's close. Long ago I saw a film clip of him giving the speech. It would be nice to find it and throw it back in the faces of the whiners from time to time.
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“I really want to move to a country where even the poor people are fat.”
I’m a member of an American Legion Post that used to assemble and distribute a few dozen Thanksgiving baskets for the needy in town. Everything from a turkey and stuffing to pies and cranberry sauce went into the baskets.
A few years ago I went to help load the baskets and found they had stopped the program and weren’t giving out baskets anymore. So I asked why.
Because it was always the same people receiving the baskets, year after year, I was told.
Hmmm. Interesting.
Once again, Thomas Sowell has hit many nails on the head with his mighty hammer. The real story though, is that the income of poor people does not include benefits received from the government. The government could give every person $100,000 worth of benefits each year and they would still be under the poverty level. The way they calculate it, no program will EVER decrease the number of poor people.
After being in the grocery store accidentally on the 1st throughout he 5th of the month I find it very hard to believe that there are any kids going hungry n America anywhere.Most of them look like they could safely skip a few meals and still be overweight.
After being in the grocery store accidentally on the 1st through the 5th of the month I find it very hard to believe that there are any kids going hungry n America anywhere.Most of them look like they could safely skip a few meals and still be overweight.