Rising Hunger Trend Affects 1 in 4 U.S. Children (new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture)

My husbands family has a terrible record of heart disease. They ate the politically correct diet because of it. Many are dead now, and a few are still fighting high cholesterol.
I feed my husband fat without worrying about it - Butter, olive oil, meat, cheeses, eggs, bacon on Sunday, etc. I do the opposite of what his family does.
He had an allergic reaction to a bee sting and went to the doctors (very rare) to get a shot thing in case it happened again. (He'd never had a bee reaction before, so I thought back to what changed. He stopped using iodized salt and switched to sea salt. I put him back on iodine salt, and he's fine now. No more reactions.). Anyway, his blood test was perfect. His Cholesterol levels, both of them, were remarkable for his age.

I'm not saying everyone should do this, because it's up to them, but it definitely works for us. In my opinion, the politically correct diet dictators are killing people.

“Nearly one in four children in the United States lived in a home that suffered from food insecurity in 2008, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”

Obama Pelosi and Reid, in their first acts in power instead sent trillions of dollars to multimillionaires in the NYC region, rather than provide for the common good.

This year an estimated one in three children in the United States live in a home that suffers from food insecurity.

People do CHOOSE. I don't think they knowingly choose to be poor. I think they lack the foresight required though to stay out of a hardship situation.

I had a conversation with two close family members (outside of my own home family) recently that hits on this problem specifically.

One of these family members thinks like we do, and lives OUT of town like we do as well! The other is a typical in-debt suburbanite. Me and the similar one were talking about heating our homes. We both burn wood. Actually, our primary source of heat is wood. Theirs is only in part. But our point was that oil and gas is expensive. Not only that, but we can do NOTHING to impact the (apparent) availability and overall price. The suburbanite told us that he was essentially stuck because they had an ordinance in his town that prohibited him from burning wood.

Me and the similar one looked at each other and were at a real loss for words for a moment. Then I said what was simply in my head at that time. I told him that I wouldn't live in a place like that and that he should simply MOVE. This frustrated him GREATLY and he threw his hands in the air and walked away asking emphatically and angrily, "So! I'm just supposed to MOVE because I can't heat with wood?!"

Me and the other one just sort of looked at each other and I said, "Yup!".

To be honest with you, to move simply because a person isn't allowed to heat with wood is probably a stupid reason at best. However, if you look at other factors, you usually discover that the same brainless regurgitators of global warming will also have other ordinances in place that vastly limit liberty, reduce options, and potentially place a person at the MERCY of things they have absolutely no control over...such as the price of fuel oil and natural gas.

We saw this crap coming some years before it started and moved to a place where we can grow, raise, and SHOOT food... and do other necessary things in a manner where the government has as absolutely little to do with it as possible.

People choose, and most make choices that later leave them in a very, VERY bad situation. Sub-prime and the culmination of the current and continuing financial crisis is proof of that. Nobody forced anybody else to go into debt. People made a CHOICE.

I think what frustrates me is that people DO choose, and they choose POORLY. Then, when they have sufficiently come into hardship because of their own poor choices, they claim victimhood to some degree, as well as being counted by certain others as now being POOR. The above scenario is ripe for exploitation by some bureaucrat and those who have caused their own hardship fall right into the plan and become stooges while being completely unaware. I compare this with people I know who lived through the depression who wouldn't take ANYTHING from the government and the contrast is GLARING.

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