like this every now and then. We're Democrats!
Posted on 05/01/2013 7:08:17 PM PDT by haffast
Vice President Joe Biden's two sons and wife are getting by on $1.50 a day to bring attention to world hunger.
"I'm hungry. I'm very hungry," Hunter Biden told CNBC's Andrea Mitchell in an appearance with his brother Beau Biden to promote the Live Below the Line Campaign.
Nearly 1.5 billion people in the world live below the poverty line and are forced to subsist on the equivalent of $1.50 a day. Hunter Biden, chairman of the board of World Food Program USA, is living on $1.50 worth of food for five days. Beau and their mother, Jill, are participating for one day.
"I'm not as tough as my brother," joked Beau, who is Delaware attorney general.
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Many of those are pregnant women, who then give birth to children who already suffer the effects of malnutrition, he noted.
His group funds programs in countries such as Kenya, where many children walk long distances to school just because there is food there, he said. While there, they also get an education that will help them climb out of the cycle of poverty.
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like this every now and then. We're Democrats!
I am soooooooooo tired of this never-ending political theatre by the political moron class.
me too. it’s easy to handle five days knowing you can go back to pigging out normally. try years, biden family.
one night, paris.
does anyone believe this crap?
These people will spend a million bucks on a one day trip and then announce how compassionate they are.
Us too. We grew up on beans and potatoes We came home from school and rolled up whatever was left from dinner in a piece of bread for lunch. If there was nothing left we ate mayonnaise or mustard sandwiches. The only meat we knew was chunk bologna and hamburger meat once in a while.
What a bunch of elitist jokers.
That’s exactly the way our family ate. We were poor.
Meanwhile, his girlfriends are having lobster.
I remember evening meals sometines consisting of bakery returned bread soaked in powdered milk. My brother and I could sleep well on the meal.
I have heard that bread in milk was HUGE during the depression as a dessert
Sometimes a lot of day old bread and powdered milk was the entire meal in the evening. Been there and lived through the times, even overseas service in WWII. Army chow was generally better.
It was way before my time but there were days when I would have fallen on my knees in thanks for $1.50
Splurge, and spend 50 cents on a moderate round, and put 50-60 pounds of boneless venison in the larder, to add to that garden bounty.
So this is kind of the opposite of eat all that food on your plate because there are starving children in Africa. I never understood how that was going to help the poor around the world, and I have a sneaking suspicion that this isn’t going to do a lick of good either.
My dad, in his eighties, does that. I bet that's where he got it from.
This “fake poverty” for a week goes hand-in-hand with the Bidens’ practice of giving a minuscule amount to charity every year. As liberal DemoRATS, they talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. What “poor” examples they set for the rest of society (pun intended).
That’s about 15 packs of Ramen Noodles...
1.50 a person. Heck, get a big bag of potatoes. Cook that. Mash them You’ll be full on a couple of potatoes and spend about 30 cents.
cough*cough*bullsh!t*cough
Everything was going along fine when they made the announcement in church until I politely asked how affluent kids living in boxes for 48 hours did anything to actually "help" the homeless and perhaps inviting homeless people to dinner in our houses would be more beneficial to the homeless. I then asked how many would volunteer to do so.
Not a peep!
Liberals = Long on symbolism, short on substance.
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