Posted on 11/22/2007 6:59:02 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
“My plan can be summed up very simply. We will take money from people who have a lot less money to me, and give it to people who have less money than them.”
No seeds for Victory gardens?
Just once, I would like to see the media flunkies search out and evaluate the source for these bogus numbers the liberals throw around. Food is cheaper than dirt in this country and no one goes hungry unless he's mentally incompetent or the child of a mental incompetent. 35 million, my a**.
• Implement the Farm Bill -- which Republicans filibustered -- because it contains a food stamp program and emergency help for food banks.
• Enroll more families in the food stamp program and expand eligibility.
. Fund programs to feed low-income kids at school.
• Strengthen food programs for seniors, such as Meals-on-Wheels.
• Provide low- or no interest loans to weatherize homes and provide help paying for high heating bills. • Lure supermarkets into neighborhoods that don't have them.
7) Sell everything I own and donate everything including my residence to fight the war on hunger.....just a thought.
I worked for awhile with a pharmacist who operated a chain drugstore in an innercity neighborhood. He had been robbed at gunpoint three times in a year and a half. His employees colluded with the neighborhood scum in shoplifting to the tune of several thousand dollars a week. I can imagine what it would be like in a large gocery store.
The idiot Edwards girl needs to get out of his 28,000 sq.ft. mansion and discover the real America.
What’s truly alarming is the number of otherwise knowledgeable Iowegians (who live near my mom’s place) who support this double talking bozo.
It’s the welfare state that has created poverty if there is any in the U.S. which I doubt since the liberal media lies.
So personal injury lawyer John Edwards who stole money from doctors and raised our health care costs now wants to greatly expand the welfare state which shows Edwards is just a typical democrat.
Your posts sanctions the unconstitutional , Marxist government schools by discussing ways to improve “learning” in the “schools”. Kids are brainwashed in the government schools to be obedient to the state and to accept liberal policies. Why would you want them to learn that? one half of high school graduates are functionally illiterate proving again that government programs don’t work.
I must admit, that is the most creative way I have heard to feed the hungry.
It’s the welfare state that has created poverty if there is any in the U.S. which I doubt since the liberal media lies. The welfare state has turned otherwise productive people into beggars. This is what government programs and government give aways always do.
So personal injury lawyer John Edwards who stole money from doctors and raised our health care costs now wants to greatly expand the welfare state which shows Edwards is just a typical democrat.
Your posts sanctions the unconstitutional , Marxist government schools by discussing ways to improve “learning” in the “schools”. Kids are brainwashed in the government schools to be obedient to the state and to accept liberal policies. Why would you want them to learn that? one half of high school graduates are functionally illiterate proving again that government programs don’t work.
That will feed a tribe of cannibals for the next three months.
So according to Edwards about 10% of Americans went hungry last year. Can I be the first to call nonsense?
Unless he means to include tragedies like last week when I forgot my lunch and went hungry till dinner time.
Seems like Mr. Slip & Fall is confusing Hunger with Food Insecurity.
2006 USDA Household Food Security
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err49/err49b.pdf
If the taxpaying Americans saw how much food was dumped into the garbage cans at the school cafeterias now, they would shut them down in 5 minutes and never open them again.
The worst waste is with the kids who are allowed to come early to school and get free breakfasts.
I have a good friend who works in the school system. Why someone hasn’t the guts to be a whistleblower is beyond me, especially with cell phones that can take photos. She needs her paycheck too badly to be the one to do it. I keep telling her that when she retires, she should tell her story to an investigative reporter.
It is a horrid waste of tax money.
There aren’t that many people starving. It’s just not freaking true. I simply doubt his statistics, especially since I’ve seen others that say something completely different. And those that are? YES, there is a certain percentage that simply can’t afford food or can’t get to the free food sources. But they’re small. I’m willing to bet a certain chunk of these people are addicted to some sort of substance and living in a depraved way. You can’t simply treat the symptoms, John. You’ve got to treat the disease. Bread and circuses, bread and circuses.
I live in an upper-middle class neighborhood. I am an Assistant Scoutmaster in the local Boy Scout Troop. I was working with some of our Scouts helping to prepare a menu for our next campout. They were trying to figure out what to have for breakfast. I asked them “What do you usually have for breakfast at home?” One of them piped up and said “We don’t have breakfast.” I asked everyone who didn’t usually eat breakfast to raise his hand. Almost all of about 15 boys raised their hands.
This is a neighborhood where most of these kids’ families could afford to send them out to the local breakfast spot for a $7.00 breakfast every morning if they wanted to. They could certainly afford to give them a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice every morning. No wonder they don’t get top grades. You can’t send a growing kid to school on an empty stomach and expect him to last until lunch while paying attention to his classes. It’s ridiculous!
one half of high school graduates are functionally illiterate proving again that government programs don’t work”
I have said for years that the LEMON LAW should be applied to kids coming out of the school systems. After 13 years of production, they are useless. If it were a new car, I could at least “Lemon Law” the vehicle back to the dealer.
New truck gets made in less than 2 days and works for 29+ years==it’s parked in the driveway==and a kid with 13 years of “schooling” by the wonderful “teachers” union are not worth spit. Lemon Law the whole batch of them.....Teachers and all.
I was a meat cutter in various supermarkets for over 20 years. I worked in Atlantic City in the mid 1980’s. The store was robed blind every day! The locals came in and ate the produce right out of the case. They pi$$ed right on the floor and destroyed the bathrooms. The cashiers would ring up every other item for their families. It was a constant battle to merchandise the meat case and turn a profit. That store lasted 3 years. There are now no supermarkets in Atlantic City. Gee,I wonder why.
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