Amusing "Truths"

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The net and Youtube are full of “starvation in America” stories and videos.

I have done my best to tackle many of the authors but once uploaded they abandon the site. Then again there are hundreds of pathetic stories about Food Stamps and the Hungry people. When watching the videos one only sees Fat people and no one who even remotely qualifies a pre anorexic. Then there are those that wobble on about “nutrition” as if the Government in providing Food Stamps needs to insure a nutritional diet. Mostly the flap is that the Gov. is not providing enough stamps so that there can be a nutritious diet, as if more food stamps would somehow bring nutritious food into the homes of the “starving” people of America.
Your thoughts???

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I wrote about some of this more recently in a post where I discuss that the US does not really have "poverty" in the traditional sense, or the sense it is used in much of the world, but only relative poverty. A lot of our "poor" people would be middle class, or even rich, in other nations. And by standards of the past our poorest are still nowhere near poor.

http://andrews.blogtownhall.com/2009/10/23/poverty_-_relati ve_and_absolute.thtml

Of course someone will doubtless bring up a single example of someone starving, but I have to say, with all the social safety nets in place, it seems it would take a lot of effort to actually starve in the US. Between gov't agencies, food banks, soup kitchens and the rest, it must take a lot of work to avoid getting any food at all.

And, as far as "nutrition" is concerned, I have to laugh. When I worked in social services, a huge number of food stamp benefit cards were "lost" once a month, right when the benefits went on them. So long as a considerable number are trading food stamps for cash, I doubt the amount on the card will improve nutrition.