Posted on 04/18/2012 1:13:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Once Needed 'to Take a Subway or a Bus Just to Find a Fresh Piece of Fruit By Penny Starr April 18, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - Barack Obama's vision as president is shaped by the fact that he knows what "it's like to take a subway or a bus just to find a fresh piece of fruit in a grocery store," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said last week.
Donovan seemed to be suggesting that the president had once lived in what First Lady Michelle Obama now refers to as a "food desert"--a place without a nearby supermarket. The First Lady has launched an initiative to eliminate these places.
Why has all this work been such a priority for the president and every one of us in the administration? Donovan said. Because he knows what you know: He knows what its like to walk the halls of public housing because hes worked there.
He knows what its like to walk the streets of some of our cities poorest neighborhoods because hes lived there, Donovan said. What its like to take a subway or a bus just to find a fresh piece of fruit in a grocery store.
Donovan also said the president had to wonder about whether he could afford a college education or decent health care or be judged unfairly.
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A disgracefully corrupted dog, by now hopelessly irredemable. I’m glad I haven’t corrupted my Pitador and Great Dane the same way. They only sleep with me because of the terrible danger of irreversible rejection trauma if I didn’t let them share the bed with me.
I cannot imagine that there is not fruit growing everywhere in Indonesia either.
Leftists are such lying pukes!
Today’s NYTs has a large article on a study debunking the whole “food desert” myth. It’s worth a read.
Gee, if you live in the White House, I’d imagine it’s quite a schlep to the the nearest grocery store, but do you really want to make such situations the basis for public policy for the rest of the country? A lot of “food deserts” may be in wealthy, gated communities.
Just thought I'd correct the title a little.
One of their best sketches! I was lucky enough to see them live at City Center in the late 70s (or early 80s) and they did that sketch brilliantly.
Yep, whitey here just spending my time keeping the black man down.
What a bunch of crappola.
Yep, whitey here just spending my time keeping the black man down.
What a bunch of crappola.
Go to the schools...Dog meat is now “for the children”
Well he is fond of poodle pot pie....
I kind of like that. :-)
Another reason for these fascists to take over another industry. Yes, that's it - bail out failing Albertson's and force them to sell fruits and vegetables at a reduced price..."Cash for Clunkers"??? Now we got "Produce for Po' Fokes"!!!
I wonder too in my area I have Stater Bros 1 1/2 miles and Northgate market 3 1/2 miles I got plenty of fresh fruit and produce at store I GO TO
I was also going to say that those ghetto bodegas have selections of booze that you won’t ever find outside the hood.
My friends and I used to travel there just to get certain 40 ouncers. I guess our neighborhoods had beer deserts.
OMG that so true in certain areas of Los Angeles LOL! hint Compton and Watts
Live where the food is!!!
Poor little Kenyan had a nanny...and lived in a mansion.
He sure does. He knows public housing very well.
Obama's "community organizing" left Chicago neighborhoods in ruins.
Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy"About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition."
Long article, lots of details, lots of names both familiar (Rezko) and unfamiliar.
GOD Freepers have good long term memories
I remember Sam Kinison joke about Ethopia ROFL
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