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Feds: 1 In 8 Americans Struggled To Feed Themselves - Even Before Economic Downturn
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- Obesity is acutally a SIGN of poverty. HIGH carb, High Sugar High fat foods are cheaper than nutrient dense, low calorie low fat foods.
When people are struggling to meet everyday needs of food, shelter, and clothing, the LAST thing they worry about it is their wasteline, and going to the gym and did they meet their required fruits and vegis for the day.
These parents goals are to make sure there are not hunger pains in their childrens belly.
Please be careful of the stereotypes you put forth. It could be someones life you are hurting.... in a few months it could be you buying raimen noodles and not your neighbor. - Reply to this comment
- When was the last time anyone saw a group of skinny kids. Apparently the goal of the Agriculture Department is to have everyone obese.
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- All symptom of the Bush-Depression being suffered by Americans after 8 years of ''trickle-down voodoo'' economics.
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- I''ll feed my kid before I pay a bill or TAXES!
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- 50% More U.S. Kids Went Hungry In 2007
Oh but lets just focus on someother kid in a third world country. Heck, we''re not 3rd world YET! - Reply to this comment
- Lucky the propaganda system lauded US food aid-OVERSEAS!!!Also medical treatment for those OVERSEAS--we can take pride in our rich doing s o much better now though-LUCKY us for finally having a CHRISTIAN White House !!
Posted by babooph at 06:06 PM : Nov 18, 2008
Surprise!! We will have a Christian in the White House for the next four years!! It just keeps getting better. - Reply to this comment
- Lucky the propaganda system lauded US food aid-OVERSEAS!!!Also medical treatment for those OVERSEAS--we can take pride in our rich doing s o much better now though-LUCKY us for finally having a CHRISTIAN White House !!
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- cwbyht.....You are right. I have seen the same thing and have often wondered how these folks quallified for government aid. I don''t have a problem with helping people who are truly in need but I believe that there are far to many who are milking the system. There needs to be some more verification before people are given government help. I don''t know how to do that but I''m sure that it could be worked out. Another poster alludes to the fact that while there may be obese children from poor families it isn''t necessairly because they are eating the right foods. It is expensive to eat the kinds of foods that are healthy and lots of folks make due with foods that are cheap but not really healthy. And finally, anyone who listens to Rush Limbaugh and believes a single word he says is being misled and lied to. The man cannot tell the truth about anything.
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- I find this really hard to swallow. Everytime I go to the store I am behind some obese mother with obese kids. She is buying a steak and lobster for herself. Pizza, chicken nuggets, and cases of soda for the kids. And paying for it with foodstamps. Not ust one woman here, Everyone I am behind in line. There is foodstamp fraud and abuse on a mass scale going on in this country.
Posted by cwbyht at 04:39 PM : Nov 18, 2008
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BS! Everyone? How would you know? - Reply to this comment
- I find this really hard to swallow. Everytime I go to the store I am behind some obese mother with obese kids. She is buying a steak and lobster for herself. Pizza, chicken nuggets, and cases of soda for the kids. And paying for it with foodstamps. Not ust one woman here, Everyone I am behind in line. There is foodstamp fraud and abuse on a mass scale going on in this country.
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- For those of you bemoaning the fact that there are fat kids in the mapped areas, are you aware that it is much cheaper to make and serve fattening food than it is to serve healthy food? Check out the prices in the produce section compared to, say, the prices in the pasta section. Aha.
And for the poster who says it''s all the parents fault for buying beer and drugs, etc., etc., I''ll grant you SOME parents are like that but SOME parents are not. You''re lumping them all into the same category. - Reply to this comment
- NOW LET''S BE REAL ABOUT THIS
Our current President has caused all of this and the crooks that were lending money to the people that couldn''t afford it and a lot of people like you that fell for it
The best thing has happened now -- (we got a new face in Washington) let''s hope for the best
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- you do realize that this article is about US kids..
Posted by obamasNUTZ at 03:34 PM : Nov 18, 2008
Uh,,Yes ,,,that was just a figure of speech. You do know what that is, right? - Reply to this comment
- You know if we all stopped having kids, there would soon be no hungry children. We have 6.5 billion people on this planet. Hello, anybody home???? We don''t need any more.
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- see a lot of FAT kids at the schools....
Posted by libsh8theUSA at 03:02 PM : Nov 18, 2008
You do realise that there''s a big wide world out there, right?
And not just your little school? - Reply to this comment
- primary goal is to serve the wealthy.
I encourage everyone to blame them for failing at their jobs.
Posted by cbsfan7331 at 02:26 PM : Nov 18, 2008
Well, the wealthy and THEMSELVES and to h3ll with the people....
Only a revolution will change that though, and nothing else. - Reply to this comment
- I wonder how many of these kids would be eating regularly if their parents didn''''''''t--
Buy alcohol.
Buy Cable TV
Buy drugs
Buy a car outside their budget with big payments.
Buy cigarettes
Eat out at restaurants too often.
Instead of buying food for the family?
Posted by Questionnews at 02:22 PM : Nov 18, 2008
Why don''''t you try to find out, instead of sitting around wondering and making snide remarks?
Posted by incog-nito at 02:28 PM : Nov 18, 2008
OK Sparky. Exactly what was snide in that post??
Unless you are telling me that there are no parents that have screwed up spending priorities? There are a he!! of a lot of parents out there that spend their money on booze & drugs while their kid goes without. I see it all the time. Try taking a stroll out of whatever Pollyanna world you live in & see for yourself. The only thing I can assume by your attack is that you are one of those parents & you don''t like being profiled. - Reply to this comment
- "You are out of touch Bill. The people in Washington are there to serve the people. "
Posted by cbsfan7331
B.S.
How''s that famous saying by JFK go?..."Ask not what....."
besides
Every 1st and 15th of the month the Post Offices are flooded with checks.
Those checks could feed every kid in America twenty times over.
There''s no reason that even one single kid for one single day should go hungry
...unless some one''s not making the effort to feed them. - Reply to this comment
- Is that map of starving Americans or the presidential election???
Posted by billpl at 02:28 PM : Nov 18, 2008
LOL...I was thinking the same thing. It looks like all of McCain''s supporters are hungry for something. - Reply to this comment
- this is pure BS. There are no poor in America.
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Posted by wlkelly
Right, Also...
There is no recession in America.
There is no mortage crisis in America.
There is no banking crisis in America.
There is no auto industry crisis in America.
There is no education crisis in America.
There is no healthcare crisis in America.
Do you find it hard to breath with your head stuck in the sand?
It obviously effects your ability to think. - Reply to this comment
