Fair point, but there's no reason kids should go hungry without it being the fault of the parent. Maybe there are situational outliers that are the exception to the rule, but I think my statement overall stands.

Mrs. Axe manages a chain store that sells groceries, and you'd be surprised how much people with kids get on their SNAP cards (she can see the available balance when people make a purchase). It's not uncommon at all for people to come in buying nothing but sugary junk shite and soda, and have a balance over $1500 on their SNAP card.

Like seriously, Mrs. Axe and I bust our asses all year to make so much that we don't qualify for any benefits of any kind whatsoever, and it costs about $350-400 in groceries to feed the two of us for a month that we pay for with actual money, then we get the shite taxed out of us to buy SNAP groceries for Trailer Park Patty and her 4 mixed kids whose dadS are all in prison, and she won't even bother trying to work because it's cheaper for her to get free groceries, subsidized housing and utility assistance, and let people use her SNAP card for a .50 cash trade for every dollar they spend.

This is exactly how the middle class is destroyed, and it's happening.

As far as there being 1 in 6 children "hungry" in the US? I mean, what are the parameters there? Are they asking people at a certain time of day, or what is the data? FFS, my youngest daughter when she was still a little one, would say "I'm hungry" so much that she actually said it a couple times at the dinner table while in the midst of consumption of the contents of her plate.

I call bullshite on "1 in 6". I live in a smaller community with an average median income of something like $30k/yr per household so it's not like we're some upscale area. It's honestly a pretty "impoverished" area by national averages, and I can assure you that the kids we see running around town and the school are NOT starving. Hell, probably 4 in 10 of the kids are fat as hell. Like, neck rolls looking like the Michelin Man fat. When I was a kid/teen in the 80s and 90s in this very same area, maybe 1 in 100 kids were "fat", and not even morbidly obese like kids I see today, but just overweight.