US is a 'world leader' in child poverty

[pismoe]

I disbelieve the idea that there are all these starving children . Hunger is no big deal as in the USA it is a temporary condition . When I was hungry as a kid , my Mom would say that supper is when your Dad gets home from work. When I was a 15 - 16 year old and catting around the country hitch hiking to and fro I would get hungry but I survived Luddley , I considered my hunger to just be another experience that I would live through and I did !!

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

He's the personification of the RW who is ignorant very loudly.

dear, if ignorant please say exectly where or admit, as a typical liberal, you lack the for it or to even know you must have a reason.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

I disbelieve the idea that there are all these starving children . Hunger is no big deal as in the USA it is a temporary condition . When I was hungry as a kid , my Mom would say that supper is when your Dad gets home from work. When I was a 15 - 16 year old and catting around the country hitch hiking to and fro I would get hungry but I survived Luddley , I considered my hunger to just be another experience that I would live through and I did !!

also, we have more suffering from being over weight than under weight. And, we have programs for 100% of those truly hungry.

 

[pismoe]

yeah , Luddley thinks that she is superior , working at a food bank [wow ], nice compassionate person perhaps but very naïve !!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I disbelieve the idea that there are all these starving children . Hunger is no big deal as in the USA it is a temporary condition . When I was hungry as a kid , my Mom would say that supper is when your Dad gets home from work. When I was a 15 - 16 year old and catting around the country hitch hiking to and fro I would get hungry but I survived Luddley , I considered my hunger to just be another experience that I would live through and I did !!

YOU used the word "starvation".

Hunger IS a big deal for children who don't get a meal "when daddy gets home".

I'm happy for you that you have never experienced daily hunger but you just have no frikken clue what you're talking about.

I see hungry children and empty refrigerators. The fact you don't see that does not mean its not very real for US children.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

yeah , Luddley thinks that she is superior , working at a food bank [wow , nice compassionate person perhaps but very naïve !!

yes she is naive and a typical liberal bigot. She is morally superior because she supports more andmore crippling welfare!!

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

I see hungry children and empty refrigerators.

its very rare in America and mostly caused because liberals have crippled so many that some cant even bother to get food stamps and the other programs that are available. In America they advertise the programs on TV and the poor suffer more from being overweight than underweight.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

yeah , Luddley thinks that she is superior , working at a food bank [wow ], nice compassionate person perhaps but very naïve !!

I have posted about how to help the hungry before and yes, I do have first hand experience.

You have said you do not have first hand experience and therefore, have chosen to make fun of hungry children.

Call me "compassionate" if you want. I would never call you that.

Look, this is not about who cares. Its about trying to call attention to the problem and getting more help, filling more little kids' tummies. Really, THAT is what matters.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I see hungry children and empty refrigerators.

its very rare in America and mostly caused because liberals have crippled so many that some cant even bother to get food stamps and the other programs that are available. In America they advertise the programs on TV and the poor suffer more from being overweight than underweight.

Interesting you mention that. I recently read that 2/3rds of those who qualify for food stamps don't apply. Shame is a very powerful thing.

And yes, you're right that being malnourished can and does lead to obesity.

 

[pismoe]

I said at the very beginning of the thread that I thought it was BS , also rated it as funny because I think that it is BS Luddley !! Go ahead , work at the food bank , they weren't around when I was hitch hiking around or I mighta taken advantage of them .

 

[Uncensored2008]

ROFL

What fucking retards you Communists are.

This why no one takes you seriously.

 

[Uncensored2008]

B.S. , that is all !!

The assclown brigade repeating retarded lies from the hate sites.

What Puddly Pillowbite repeats from the hate site Alternet is no different than some scumbag claiming their was no Holocaust,

It's just shit stains with no integrity spewing utter lies in hopes of fomenting hatred.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Interesting you mention that. I recently read that 2/3rds of those who qualify for food stamps don't apply. Shame is a very powerful thing.

So now we need a liberal program to help people get over their shame so they can accept their welfare and not starve to death-right? Dear, I'm sure if a person is hungry enough he will do anything for food, including accepting liberal welfare.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

And yes, you're right that being malnourished can and does lead to obesity.

too stupid as always. What I said was that in America more poor folks suffer from too much food rather than too little.

 

[jon_berzerk]

the United States ranks second on the scale of what economists call "relative child poverty" -- above Latvia, Bulgaria, Spain, Greece, and 29 others.

1) its a pity that liberalism has impoverished our children
2) although poor by liberal standards our poor kids are 10 times richer than Bulgarian poor kids, relatively speaking.
3) dumbto3's solution, as a typical liberal, is more and more crippling welfare giving rise to the need for more and more crippling welfare.
4) Conservatives know how to eliminate poverty: Republican capitalism. China just did it and instantly eliminated 40% of the entire world's poverty. Liberalism is the cause of poverty.

1) its a pity that liberalism has impoverished our children
2) although poor by liberal standards our poor kids are 10 times richer than Bulgarian poor kids, relatively speaking.

it is sad how much liberalism has added to poverty

give it enough years of and we will catch up to those standards

 

[Mertex]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

There you have it.....most conservatives think the poor are poor because they want to be, just like you...right Steph....you could pull yourself up if you wanted to.

To bad that most of them are Christian and have no empathy for the children, but fool themselves into thinking it is all a myth. God Bless them.

 

[Mertex]

it is sad how much liberalism has added to poverty

give it enough years of and we will catch up to those standards

Yeah right.......yet it is the Republicans who keep wanting to cut snaps (and have at times), and get rid of welfare. Yeah, keep thinking the poor will become rich if we just stop making them dependent......like why don't we do that with corporations?

 

[jasonnfree]

If children have to starve or have malnutrition, so be it. As long as republicans can keep cutting taxes it's worth it. Rush limbaugh teaches a course on dumpster diving for poor kids of lazy bum parents by the way. Praise jesus and hallelujah.

 

[Londoner]

The version of capitalism that took over in 1980 holds that the well-being of children is an extra-market value that should be handled by churches and private citizens - not government. This is what Reagan said as he dismantled all the school food programs for the poor. (The savings was used to expand the Pentagon budget and increase subsidies to corporate sectors like big oil, who deeply supported the tax, trade and regulatory policies of this new steroidal era of global capitalism)

According to the neoconservatism of the Reagan movement, the market's job is only to maximize the surplus value (profit) from labor - and to do it by any means possible. This was done initially by the deindustrialization of the U.S. and shipping production to China and the freedom-hating 3rd world, where profit margins benefited from sweat-shop labor costs. Also... by making U.S. workers compete with 3rd world workers (who were living beneath brutal dictators), Reagan/Clinton/Bush were able to drive down the wages of U.S. labor so that corporations and investors could generate more surplus in the USA.

One effect of lowering wages and benefits is that more children starve.

Postmorte: We're on our way to the third world model of wealth distribution. We have a narrow concentration of wealth on top, which gives our wealthy elite the kind of centralized political power that makes any overtures we make to democracy ring hollow. Coupled with this we have exploding poverty and political disenfranchisement down below.

Point is, poor indebted people with no political power make for very cheap labor.

Bush 41 called the tax policies of Reaganomics voodoo because the money never trickled down (only credit cards and subprime).

Of course the Republicans tell us that the growing poverty is because our system isn't sufficiently 'marketized'. Meaning: Government interference is destroying incentives and making it harder for producers to lift our boats. In short, we should cut the wages and benefits of poor workers even more, and cut even more food programs for struggling families so that the owners of our system can buy even more politicians and gobble up more think tanks and media assets, so they can remake the factual world on their terms.

God help us.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

God help us.

dear, we don't need God when Republican capitalism can help us. China just switched to it and instantly eliminated 40% of the entire world's poverty. Liberals are stupid and anti-science and so want to switch America to socialism even after it slowly starved 120 million to death and just when China proved capitalism works.

Did liberals enjoy it when 120 million slowly starved to death? Do liberals enjoy seeing the American economy decline as liberalism grows??