re: Is Childhood Hunger in America Really A Problem?

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in education

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Pick one

As someone who sees mothers in the grocery store shopping for their 3 kids, no one gets more food than those shopping for adolescents.

i tend to stick with essentials, meats and vegetables, cleaning supplies and beer.

what does the mom with 3 kids get? snacks and cookies and pizzas and a bunch of bullshite. no cleaning supplies. nothing from the produce section. no beer for dad.

I don’t care if the children are hungry

Maybe it's message boards in general, but I've never seen a place so actively work to justify the fact that they simply don't give a shite about anybody but themselves.

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Anyone who has a hungry child can literally walk outside and knock on a door, and someone will give them a slice of bread.

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shite, I wouldn't try that in North BR or NOLA East unless you want to end up on the evening news

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That's because it doesn't happen. Anyone who has a hungry child can literally walk outside and knock on a door, and someone will give them a slice of bread. Any church in America will load you up with at minimum a big box of groceries. There is food everywhere. Kids and adults don't starve, unless they have someone crazy that won't let them out the house.

Hell, I'm hungry every day around this time. I deal with adult hunger every single day. But people aren't starving in this country. That's a myth.

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The sad thing is that people in America have no idea what hunger really is. Our "poor" are suffering from an obesity epidemic. Michelle Obama spent years fighting fast food companies in urban areas.

Our poor have cars, new TVs and free food. Go to India and tell them about our hunger epidemic. These food "charities" are reprehensible. Their financial statements are public. And no one seems to care that only a single digit percentage of the money they receive goes to feed people. The same is true with animal charities like the ASPCA. The ASPCA doesn't even give money to shelters, they give money to other "charities". What those charities do with the money is anyone's guess.

The ONLY times I’ve ever seen this is when the parents are junkies or are mentally incompetent, like when borderline retarded people have kids. There’s a few cases of psycho parents starving their kids on purpose too but Ive never been involved with them. When the state gets involved, it’s usually listed as “failure to thrive.”

I dont believe it. Poverty level income people are fat AF.

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Food insecurity” is a statistic designed to mislead. USDA defines food insecurity as being “uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food.” USDA noted: “For most food-insecure households, the inadequacies were in the form of reduced quality and variety rather than insufficient quantity.”

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So all the ******* buying food with food stamps that isnt quality, like grape drank, still makes them "hungry".

Got it

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Real tough to give a shite when people wearing designer clothing buy 3 carts full of snack cakes with a Louisiana Purchase card and load it into an expensive vehicle all while talking on a wireless headset.

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I don't give a shite about them, but I do care about the litter of kids they are raising and how their fate is basically set a birth. They are the ones suffering by following in their parent's ignorant footsteps because they weren't raised properly