More babies, young kids going hungry in US (Blame Dubya's proposed cuts in welfare aid)

Yahoo News ^ | 6/11/05

[SIDENET]

Why is it that illegal aliens manage to feed themselves but some American citizens are unable?

Because illegal aliens eat the food that Americans won't eat. You walked right into that one.

:-)

[blueberry12]

ROFL!!!

[FormerNavyBrat]

"In the first year of life, children triple their birth weight," said Black, "and if children do not have enough to eat during those very early very times, you first see that their weight will falter and then their height will falter."

Breastfeeding=free. Idealistic but true.

[Piquaboy]

If it isn't starving children it is homeless people whenever a Republican is in the white house. Cry me a river! (Sarcasm)

[Izzy Dunne]

In some areas, green vegetables and fruit are impossible to buy -- even in a can, because there may be no supermarket.

But we live here anyway, because the crack prices are low.

[varyouga]

It's frickin food. It's not that expensive if you cook it yourself. Of course if you buy prepared frozen food or eat at McDonald's all day you will be broke really soon.

A friend of my grandmother's lives on a food budget of around $20 a month and she's not starving.

[YOUGOTIT]

AFP as far as I can determine is a left-wing anti-American organization it is not a legitimate news organization as far as I can find.

Is it the Arab News Service?

[muir_redwoods]

How can they be hungry and obese at the same time? Aren't we told that obesity is America's number one nutritional problem and the poor are most affected?

[Jimmy Valentine]

"There's no excuse for children being hungry in America"

no child in America goes hungry except by parental neglect.

The poorer neighborhoods of Baltimore are filled with people who have the same morality and social consciousness as rabbits. Many many children, and the ones that die they forget about.

Regards,

[YOUGOTIT]

Sorry AFP is not Arab it is anti-American French.

[SIDENET]

25-39 cents.

[kharaku]

We used to rent to some folks on welfare. Every Friday they'd throw a massive beer guzzler party with they're welfare money. Then they'd complain at the end of the month they had no rent money and were poor.

[doublecansiter]

Is this a real cut in spending on welfare, or just a reduction
in the increase?

Mike

[struwwelpeter]

If it weren't for hunger we'd never know when it was time to eat.

[ko_kyi]

Funny how a "proposed" cut can cause anything, any more than a "proposed" increase can alleviate anything.

All but the absolute poorest in America have safe water, food every day, electricity, and televisions. Their kids can go to school, and if they go to a hospital they have to be treated for emergencies.

I spent a week in Burma last summer and can tell you that only the rich there have all of these things. We have poor people in the US, but what we think of as poor is a far cry from what the rest of the world thinks.

[Hardastarboard]

according to most recent official figures, released on National Hunger Awareness Day held this year on Tuesday, June 7.

WHOSE "official figures"?? There are so many half-truths and mis-statements in this article that it's just a joke. My eighth grade English composition teacher would have slapped me for writing something as weak in argument and citation as this article is. It looks like whoever sponsors National Hunger Awareness Day sent this article to the reporter who then just claimed it as his own.

One final point, then I'll turn off the rant flag. Have you ever looked at the nutritional labels on "junk food"? Much of it contains a fair portion of nutrients, including protein, fiber, and vitamins. Most "junk food" snack foods are more expensive than nutritious foods, which leads one to the realization that anyone buying "junk food" isn't doing so because of money, but because of poor choices. And poor choices (unmarried sex, dropping out of school, taking drugs / alcohol, committing crimes) are the number 1 cause of poverty.

[visualops]

malnutrition is not always due to lack of food -- rather to the quality of the food being consumed.

Duh.
What you have are people who are
a)having kids too young
b)put what they want, i.e. clothes & junk, ahead of their kids
c)ignorant about nutrition
d)breakdown of the family and loss of generational wisdom


"People often ask me how many children go to bed hungry. The answer is the parents work very hard so they don't go to bed feeling hungry. The parents try to fill the baby up with french fries and soda pop," said Frank.

The parents are ignorant.

In some areas, green vegetables and fruit are impossible to buy -- even in a can, because there may be no supermarket. Moreover, such items are costly.

That is total crapola. I'll be happy to show any of these morons that eating healthy is always cheaper than junk or fast food.

I'll also add that it's a good bet most of these kids are not being breast fed as infants.

[listenhillary]

Walter Williams - How not to be poor

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400835/posts

[fatnotlazy]

Walter hits the nail right on the head. Bravo!

[A. Pole]

In either case, the children should be put into state care becuase the parents are unfit morons.

There is another possible case - that parents are very ignorant. If so they need to be forced to attend the nutrition training showing them how they can get healthy and cheap food.

Taking children away should be the LAST resort.