Posted on 04/16/2019 9:03:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
The notion that there is a crisis of child hunger in America is among the many myths that liberals like to propagate to justify ever-more government. Interviewed in London yesterday, Nancy Pelosi cited an oft-used false statistic on the subject.
On Tuesday, MSNBC's Morning Joe played that clip with delight. Mika Brzezinski announced at a commercial break they would play Pelosi "taking on the myth of AOC." Was she taking on myths, or spreading myths? Pelosi said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won in a "safe" district, and the Democrats need to win swing districts:
PELOSI: When we won this election, it wasn't in districts like mine or Alexandria's—and she's a wonderful member of Congress, I think all of our colleagues will attest. But those are districts that are solidly Democratic. This glass of water would win with a "D" next to its name. But the 43 districts--we won 43, net gain of 40--were right down the middle. Mainstream, hold-the-center, victories. And if we're going to be helping the one of five children in America goes to sleep hungry at night, who lives in poverty in our country, we have to win."
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How do you help them by letting millions of illegal immigrants in?
I go to sleep hungry too, and then I wake up the next day and eat breakfast.
What a crock. The biggest health problem low income kids have these days is obesity.
...and minority voters EVERYWHERE are DISENFRANCHISED...!!!
/sarc
The reason the kids are going hungry is because Democrats promote and glorify single parent households. Want to be assigned hero status - be a single parent. It’s the number 1 cause of childhood poverty.
Our biggest social problem in America = obesity.
That’d be about right. That’s the number of leftist children.
I am so tired of this crap. The only children who go to bed hungry are those being abused or neglected by their parents. In addition to the food stamps program and WIC, children receive “free” breakfast, lunch, and a take-home meal at school throughout the year. In addition, there are food banks, church pantries, and many other private charities that feed people.
The other thing that makes me mad is the so-called poverty statistics. They do not count non-cash government benefits when they report these phony stats. A family can be getting food stamps, Medicaid, “free” Head Start programs and public schools for the kiddies, “free” or subsidized housing and utilities, even a free phone, and have the income they deem as being poverty level and still be considered poor.
Have you ever watched the shows where they show people in housing projects? Look at the cars, the expensive cell phones (not the cheapo Obamaphones), the clothing, the expensive manicures, etc. This is poverty??? Real poverty is found in Venezuela, not the US. The only desperately poor people in the US are street people who are addicts, mentally ill, or just choose to live that way. It’s all a giant scam.
Show me the math. How much do we spend on the various state and federal agencies that are supposed to be handling this issue? Now, divide that number by the number of children who supposedly go to bed hungry. What do you get? Yeah, that’s what I got - a crock o’ sh*t.
Incompetent parents.
who lives in poverty in our country, we have to win.”
War on Poverty, expansive social-welfare legislation introduced in the 1960s by the administration of U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and intended to help end poverty in the United States. ... Johnson announced an “unconditional war on poverty” in his first State of the Union address, in January 1964.
War on Poverty | United States history | Britannica.com
https://www.britannica.com/topic/War-on-Poverty
Looks like another unwinnable war the Dems have foisted off on us. But he got “...those n*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years!” Only 141 years left to go!
3 in 5 children are obese........................
Every day I go to bed hungry....for real, objective news that isn’t Marxist propaganda.
If there are that many starving children why are Pelosi and the Democrat party doing everything in their power to bring more impoverished third world parasites into this country to consume what should be reserved for our country’s children?
Maybe Nancy could send them the leftover candy and chocolate dipped strawberries from her VIP flights
In addition to the food stamps program and WIC, children receive “free” breakfast, lunch, and a take-home meal at school throughout the year.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
- H.L. Mencken
Clap. Now.
LOL!
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