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Speaking of food...Has anyone else heard these so-call public service announcements by an organization called FeedingAmerica.com? I have heard two of them repeated constantly on my local Rush station. The first has a woman saying she is our next door neighbor but we don't know she works two jobs and her husband works one job and they suffer from hunger. The other one has a little girl saying she is one of four children in America that goes to bed hungry every night. They then tell us to donate to food banks.

I think donating to a food bank is an okay thing to do, but does anyone believe that 25% of Amnerica's children go to bed hungry? Or that a family with three jobs suffers from hunger? I think these ads are designed to show America is a bad place where people suffer from hunger no matter what they do.

... that a family with three jobs suffers from hunger? I think these ads are designed to show America is a bad place where people suffer from hunger no matter what they do.

The part of that particular commercial that I find laughable, is the grocery market cashier who states that she goes to bed hungry. She must be thinking she is in a different commercial. May be a commercial for eating disorders.

A supermarket cashier works quite hard and with a five to seven percent employee discount as well as the first dibs on any produce or canned goods or packaged goods as well as blemished, ripe produce, dented cans or partly crushed packages are deemed as seconds, I know for a fact first hand from family members, that grocery staff have discounted and inexpensive groceries available to them.

I agree that the commercial is meant to make America as a whole look bad.