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Biden's Sons, Wife Eat on $1.50 A Day to Bring Attention to Poverty
Newsmax ^ | 01 May 2013 09:08 PM | Greg Richter

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; cycleofpoverty; hunter; joe; poverty; worldhunger
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To: haffast
Like I told Beau and, uh, the other one, we have to do shallow, useless grandstanding Joe Biden photo: Joe Biden Biden_debate_grimace.jpg like this every now and then. We're Democrats!
81 posted on 05/01/2013 9:34:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

I am soooooooooo tired of this never-ending political theatre by the political moron class.


82 posted on 05/01/2013 9:57:16 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: cripplecreek

me too. it’s easy to handle five days knowing you can go back to pigging out normally. try years, biden family.


83 posted on 05/01/2013 9:58:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: choctaw man

one night, paris.


84 posted on 05/01/2013 9:58:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: haffast

does anyone believe this crap?

These people will spend a million bucks on a one day trip and then announce how compassionate they are.


85 posted on 05/01/2013 10:06:14 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: cripplecreek

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.


86 posted on 05/01/2013 10:15:25 PM PDT by sheana
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To: JRandomFreeper

That’s exactly the way our family ate. We were poor.


87 posted on 05/01/2013 10:18:27 PM PDT by sheana
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To: haffast

Meanwhile, his girlfriends are having lobster.


88 posted on 05/01/2013 10:28:49 PM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin)
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To: sheana

I remember evening meals sometines consisting of bakery returned bread soaked in powdered milk. My brother and I could sleep well on the meal.


89 posted on 05/01/2013 10:40:33 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: noinfringers2

I have heard that bread in milk was HUGE during the depression as a dessert


90 posted on 05/01/2013 10:41:48 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

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.


91 posted on 05/01/2013 10:47:55 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: noinfringers2

It was way before my time but there were days when I would have fallen on my knees in thanks for $1.50


92 posted on 05/01/2013 10:50:21 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: JRandomFreeper

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.


93 posted on 05/02/2013 1:33:56 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: haffast

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.


94 posted on 05/02/2013 2:51:15 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: GeronL
I have heard that bread in milk was HUGE during the depression as a dessert.

My dad, in his eighties, does that. I bet that's where he got it from.

95 posted on 05/02/2013 2:52:51 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: haffast

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).


96 posted on 05/02/2013 2:55:03 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: haffast

That’s about 15 packs of Ramen Noodles...


97 posted on 05/02/2013 3:52:18 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Glenmore

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.


98 posted on 05/02/2013 3:59:38 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: haffast

cough*cough*bullsh!t*cough


99 posted on 05/02/2013 4:05:58 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: haffast
A pastor and youth group leader at a former, liberal church we attended in NE Connecticut wanted the youth group to live in cardboard boxes for one weekend to promote awareness of the "homeless."

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.

100 posted on 05/02/2013 4:20:32 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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