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Biden's Sons, Wife Eat on $1.50 A Day to Bring Attention to Poverty
Newsmax ^ | 01 May 2013 09:08 PM | Greg Richter

Posted on 05/01/2013 7:08:17 PM PDT by haffast

Vice President Joe Biden's two sons and wife are getting by on $1.50 a day to bring attention to world hunger.

"I'm hungry. I'm very hungry," Hunter Biden told CNBC's Andrea Mitchell in an appearance with his brother Beau Biden to promote the Live Below the Line Campaign.

Nearly 1.5 billion people in the world live below the poverty line and are forced to subsist on the equivalent of $1.50 a day. Hunter Biden, chairman of the board of World Food Program USA, is living on $1.50 worth of food for five days. Beau and their mother, Jill, are participating for one day.

"I'm not as tough as my brother," joked Beau, who is Delaware attorney general.

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Many of those are pregnant women, who then give birth to children who already suffer the effects of malnutrition, he noted.

His group funds programs in countries such as Kenya, where many children walk long distances to school just because there is food there, he said. While there, they also get an education that will help them climb out of the cycle of poverty.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; cycleofpoverty; hunter; joe; poverty; worldhunger
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To: calico_thompson

Being talented or working hard isn’t nearly as important these days as having high powered connections in government.


21 posted on 05/01/2013 7:21:44 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: haffast

...and they only use 99% of their brain to bring attention to stupidity...


22 posted on 05/01/2013 7:21:44 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: haffast

The Biden theater does not impress me.

In memory of the man who said it best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNoJ2BzSRU


23 posted on 05/01/2013 7:21:52 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: haffast

We have been giving the DC clowns plenty of money to take care if the poor. Joe has been one of the clowns for close to forty years, so whatcha been doing with our money?


24 posted on 05/01/2013 7:22:08 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: griswold3

The guys at the farmers market say they can spot the new poor because they’re the ones bargain shopping with food stamps.

The generational food stamp users eat only the best.


25 posted on 05/01/2013 7:22:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: haffast

BS


26 posted on 05/01/2013 7:23:35 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: haffast

Perhaps Biden will try to get his boss to stop sabotaging the American economy and jobs? So people can escape the poverty being forced on them by the “transformation” of USA into a (third- world tin- pot dictatorship).


27 posted on 05/01/2013 7:23:35 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: yarddog
If I was cooking for you, you would eat pretty well for $1.50/day. That's a bag of rice, a bag of beans, cornmeal and some meat.

Now... you are going to have to do some work out in the garden to get the rest of the meal, but right this minute, there's plenty of green-leaf lettuce and spinach and asparagus. Later, we'll have tomatoes and peppers and kohlrabi and in a week or two, radishes and chard.

You would eat well.

/johnny

28 posted on 05/01/2013 7:26:03 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Toespi

As an afterthought Joe, it is a pretty big gap between a one night $500,000.00 Rome trip to $1.50 a day food budget.


29 posted on 05/01/2013 7:26:17 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: griswold3

I know what you mean.

I remember my Mother who was born and reared on a farm, would go to the supermarket and it seemed to me that she had not bought anything to eat.

What she had actually done is buy Flower, meal, whole chicken or mullet which we could usually get for 9 cents a pound, etc.

My late wife was similar but me, I really don’t know how to cook from scratch so I buy food which often requires only to heat up or cook in a microwave.

I do often buy food which you have to open the box, then heat while adding ingredients or maybe even doing a little real cooking but never do like Mother did.


30 posted on 05/01/2013 7:26:31 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: haffast

maybe the whole damn biden tribe can get together at their million dollar home next weekend for a barbeque to celebrate their sacrifice of being little people for 5 days


31 posted on 05/01/2013 7:27:03 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: haffast

I expect they will enroll for welfare next.


32 posted on 05/01/2013 7:27:31 PM PDT by ully2
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To: haffast

Hey, Jill! You gonna finish that crap sandwich?


33 posted on 05/01/2013 7:29:29 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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To: haffast

I guessing about now, Obama-bots are calling the Bidens urging them to apply for food stamps


34 posted on 05/01/2013 7:29:35 PM PDT by stylin19a (Obem -> Fredo smart)
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To: haffast

Biden’s hair plugs eat more than that.


35 posted on 05/01/2013 7:31:46 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: haffast

Isn’t that about how much Vice President and Dr. Biden give to charity each year?


36 posted on 05/01/2013 7:33:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: haffast

If they are that worried about it maybe they should get Slow Joe to donate a little more to charity.


37 posted on 05/01/2013 7:34:45 PM PDT by lakeman (Semper Fi)
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To: haffast

I think that a new religion will be the Biden family’s next step:

http://www.breatharian.com/breatharians.html


38 posted on 05/01/2013 7:35:16 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: haffast

No one in the US eats on $1.5 per day and most of the poor have nice TVs and cell phones. The cost of living in these other countries like India is extremely low due to the low wages. So the whole exercise is a pile of BS

If they want to help the poor then lower taxes and grow the US economy. Then people will have more jobs and those that already have jobs will have more money for charity


39 posted on 05/01/2013 7:35:24 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: lakeman

it takes a globull village


40 posted on 05/01/2013 7:36:13 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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