The whole America-Is-Hungry campaign to me is a gigantic fraud. Where I live, western Wisconsin, we are constantly subjected to ads for programs to “feed the hungry.” And I always exclaim to the tv set, WHERE????? Where are these hungry, starving people? They sure aren’t anywhere where I go. Just walk through the local Walmarts and try to find these starving people. You’ll see quite the opposite and get the impression a very large pct. of the local population should go a long diet.
Not only that, we have very low unemployment, here.
You don’t need to look in Walmart. I see overflowing carts in Woodman’s, as well, paid for with the debit card. I see very little fresh food in those carts. Now, I know self-supporting folks who put everything on a card for the airfare points, so using a debit card doesn’t mean it’s welfare.
I’d say from informal observation, that 1/3 of of the folks I see on the street here are just genetically programmed to be hefty. At the moment, we have a good friend, educated, eats right, exercises, but cannot get his weight down to where he wants it. His sibling has no problem with weight loss. I think it just depends on what combo of genes you inherit.
Here they keep running some kind of give to insure children get milk at home. I thought WIC took care of that.....and food stamps.
I already gave to those programs.