National poll: 25 percent of Springfield (MA) households with children report food hardship

The Republican ^ | Peter Goonan

[FlingWingFlyer]

I got an idea! Let's stop deporting illegal aliens! That should end all of the poverty and hunger in America!

extreme sarc/

[berdie]

Priorties have really changed.

A family member fell on hard times a while back. I was trying to help financially. I was told he had cut back to the bone.

Since I had paid several of his bills, I knew that he had a $175 cable bill and a $125 cell phone bill.

I was like..really dude? I don’t have those things myself. It hurt...but I cut him loose.

[Sea Parrot]

Pure unadulterated BS. Beans, rice, cornbread and grits is a perfectly adequate diet, and I have seen the time would have compared them to gourmet haute cuisine doings.

Hell, I am 72 years old, still have my grits and eggs for breakfast, love my cornbread and beans at least once a week.

And just in case of SHTF, have 100 lbs of rice 200 of beans, 50 each of corn meal and grits stored. Consider it cheap insurance, all dated, rotational used and replaced.

Having seen some real hard times makes me frugal to the nth degree.

[familyop]

"The depression, wage cuts, inflation, taxation and destruction of credit is knocking the middle class down one rung at a time."

You made several very good points, but I disagree on the "destruction of credit." Many will learn to save, instead, and begin to prosper. Those who increase their technical knowledge and work to cut their energy costs and/or produce their own food will do even better. Those who learn to manufacture useful things (as a hobby for now, business, when the SHTF) will do even better than that.

There's a way around every bureaucratic obstacle. The technically inclined (low techs. and engineers) will rule.

[Sea Parrot]

When the wife sees meat priced cheap enough, know those coolers in the back of vehicle are going to get filled and then straight to the freezer at home.

I have seen her buy up to 70-80 lbs at a time. Some store's will try to limit her amount, but she will argue like hell if they did not have a limit advertised.

[Avery Iota Kracker]

A national poll of a small city, what am I missing here.

I call BS, lift the covers and you’ll find the usual free lunch for kids, 365 days a year.

[DennisR]

Do these people not know that one can actually put these little tiny things in the ground and - lo and behold! - food will magically appear in a few months?

[familyop]

"Beans, rice, cornbread and grits is a perfectly adequate diet,..."

Potatoes are good for us, too, with much Vitamin C (look it up). Even at $4,00 per ten pounds, the cheaper ones are not all that high. ...also very easy to grow, for those who have some garden space. I live in one of the most brutally cold climates of our country, and the short-season potatoes (90-100 days) are easy to grow here.

[Persevero]

Nonsense, there is a “childhood obesity epidemic.”

[Persevero]

13 of those things on your list we don’t have.

[Persevero]

“I used to find beef was cheaper at Costco, but not any more.”

Same here.

[boop]

So 0.4% of the population do NOT have a refrigerator? Who are these people? There can’t be THAT many Grizzly Adams’ out there.

[Always Independent]

MAybe they could ask BO to donate a couple of those extra hudred thousand dollars he said he has to the hungry.

Still wondering what he did with Nobel Money?

[napscoordinator]

Rather pay a bit more for loads of food that we have available then be in Somalia where starvation is rampid. God Bless America even though people like yourself don't appreciate what we have.

[SatinDoll]

Oh, my! Love those stand-alone freezers!

I’ve stocked up on charcoal. Never know when the power grid will go down. Hee, hee.

[Psalm 144]

“But the bigger point is that food prices are thru the roof.
Anyone that has been to a supermarket lately knows that.”

It is a good thing that items like food, clothing and shelter don’t count on the inflation index, or we would have some serious inflation. I guess they just count essentials like budgie grit, styrofoam packing peanuts and pine straw.

[denydenydeny]

I don’t make judgements on what people eat. Are they suppose to eat Spam? Other peoples diets are none of my business.

If their diets are being funded with money taken from you at gunpoint, they should be. Non-working "poor" people should not have higher standards of living than actual working people.

[TexasFreeper2009]

it’s such a hardship shoving the last twinkie from the box in your fat mouth for lunch!

These stories are pure bs. Nearly everytime I see an obese person or child they are poor.

[Marty62]

You don’t know what I appreciate!

[Marty62]

You don’t know what I appreciate!