{"id":15627,"date":"2009-11-16T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15627"},"modified":"2009-11-16T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:29:41","slug":"hungry-hungry-hippos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15627","title":{"rendered":"Hungry, hungry hippos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post has an article in today’s paper entitled “Report: More Americans going hungry<\/a>” – it’s a headline right out of the battle for Lyndon Johnson’s war against poverty;<\/p>\n

In 2008, the report found, nearly 17 million children — more than one in five across the United States — were living in households in which food at times ran short, up from slightly more than 12 million children the year before. And the number of children who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million. <\/p>\n

Among people of of all ages, nearly 15 percent last year did not consistently have adequate food, compared with about 11 percent in 2007, the greatest deterioration in access to food during a single year in the history of the report. <\/p>\n

Taken together, the findings provide the latest glimpse into the toll that the weak economy has taken on the well-being of the nation’s residents.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, a weak economy did it. I wonder if they also surveyed the same households which didn’t have “adequate food” for the presence of an X-box, cable and a big screen TV.<\/p>\n

Poverty and food shortages are linked but not the same thing, according to the report. Just half the households in which food is scarce have incomes at or below the official poverty level, the data show, while most of the rest have slightly less than twice the poverty level. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, it’s not that people are too poor to buy food – they’re too stupid to buy food. So what’s the President going to do? Send us some groceries and cooks to prepare our food for us? There are so many government programs and not-for-profit organizations in this country that are set up for feeding people, how can anyone be hungry?<\/p>\n

I’ll tell you who the hungry families are – the same people that are waiting for you to buy their healthcare. Waiting on their sofas, game controller in their greasy oversized paw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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