Republican lawmaker declares: 'Nobody goes to sleep wondering if they'll be able to feed their famil
written by Marissa Higgins / Daily Kos April 30, 2019
40 million people live in food insecure households in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 6.5 million of those people are children.
An estimated 40 million people live in food-insecure households in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Around 6.5 million of those people are children. And an additional 9.7 million adults exist in a sphere of “very low” food security.
There’s no excuse for people to be ignorant of the struggle of countless Americans, including children and the elderly. That said, there is especially no excuse for a politician to plead ignorance. Or worse, to be so out of touch that they’re actually offensive.
Congressman Jim Hagedorn, a Republican from Minnesota, declared in a speech at the Noon Kiwanis Club in the town of Worthington, Minnesota, that “Nobody [in America] goes to sleep at night wondering if they’ll be able to feed their families.” Yes, he really said that. When I first read the quote, I thought it had to be fake—but somehow, it isn’t. An elected official really did say that no one goes to sleep worrying about feeding their families … while people are routinely, chronically unable to feed their families and themselves. Far fewer can access food that is nutritionally sound.
Hagedorn serves a district that covers all of southern Minnesota. Notably, it’s also the second-largest producer of pork in the entire country. Hagedorn himself was raised on a livestock farm.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/republican-lawmaker-declares-nobody-goes-to-sleep-wondering-if-theyll-be-able-to-feed-their-families/
I wonder if this zippy the pin head knows how many natives live below poverty estimates in the state, after all his ilk took the land to farm, during the "allotment period ".........................
and this was what he meant to say from this article........................on April 27, 2019
https://www.dglobe.com/news/crime-and-courts/4604763-data-april-27-2019
Clarification:
A quotation attributed to U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn in Wednesday edition stated: “Nobody (in America) goes to sleep at night wondering if they’ll be able to feed their families.” Hagedorn made the comment with regard to availability of food in grocery stores, and America having a food supply that is abundant and nutritious in stark comparison to other countries.
Your ilk asshole still wants to cut people from food stamps..........................that is simple fucking fact.............or did you not show up when your buddy Eddie Munster (Paul Ryan) was running your parasitic Fascist show........................
Maybe you should go to the Minnesota web site on poverty asshole, here let me make it easier for you, take look around the reservations and your neck of the woods.............................
https://mn.gov/admin/demography/data-by-topic/income-poverty/
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subsidies to operate under, since he and his farm in some shape and form gets money from those food stamp when people go into a store or shop to buy his product......................but he doesn't see that circle of fact between his eyes and ears.....................he thinks people are just plain moochers if they live in poverty.......................what a libertarian jerk.......................because that is what he is, he is moocher of farm subsidies in some shape or form....................
