Why are so many children going hungry?

[Bitwit1234]

Why are our food banks almost empty? It's 7AM here in Minnesota and I am starting to prepare Thanksgiving Dinner for my sons and family. And it suddenly hit me. All the little children without food. And why?

I get so angry I bang the spoons on my sink..it is totally un-necessary for all this. Middle class families, added to the ranks of the unemployed and added to the hungry. While Bush spends more and more in Iraq. While he cuts social service programs that would feed the hungry and fuel their furnaces. How could a person like this ever ever ever have been elected to the highest office in this country.

A person who is supposed to serve the people of this country, who serves the corporations instead. All the money being funneled into Iraq doesn't go to furnish equipment, food and clothing to our troops. The money goes into the pockets of all the companies who are supposed to be re-building the country that bush destroyed.

I say to myself, how can this man get out of bed in the morning and look himself in the eye, knowing full well what hell he has wrought. How can he talk to heads of state, knowing they look on him as the evil war monger he is. If I was responsible for the havoc he and cheney have caused in this world I would crawl into a hole smaller than they one they say they found Saddam in.

And I think we should all give thanks, that there is less than a year and these two monsters will be out of office. And I wish for this Thanksgiving, with all my heart, that the day they leave office they are both marched away to prison. I know it is the wish of millions of Americans also.

[dysfunctional press]

1. how many hungry children are there?

and btw- it's actually 1 year and two months before they'll be out of office...:hi:

[demnan]

2. I hope its only one year and two months

The way things are going, what stops them from declaring martial law and cancelling the election?

Congress wouldn't stand up for that? Yeah, give me a break!

[Brother_1969]

3. How many more ...

(mostly black) children must starve to death while huddled in a cold, dark, rat-infested hovel before we finally throw off the chains of corporate oppression?

[flashl]

5. Blacks crisis on ALL levels is not being acknowledged

Again, they have become invisible.

[flashl]

4. Hunger is not a scientific accurate term for food insecurity

Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry

Nov 2006

The U.S. government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience "very low food security."

Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans' access to food, and it has consistently used the word "hunger" to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.

Mark Nord, the lead author of the report, said "hungry" is "not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being measured in the food security survey." Nord, a USDA sociologist, said, "We don't have a measure of that condition."

The USDA said that 12 percent of Americans -- 35 million people -- could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven million of them reported going hungry at times. Beginning this year, the USDA has determined "very low food security" to be a more scientifically palatable description for that group.

How do I know? Because a government agency serving the public told me so.

[doc03]

6. The Repug answer to that is they are on a diet. n/t

[madrchsod]

7. this problem has nothing to do with race

there are children of all colors across this country who lack what they deserve. yes-- when we feed a war machine that destroys the hope and future children in distant lands, we also destroy the hope and future of our children.

[flashl]

9. If you do not understand racism in America then it will be hard to conceive

The great equalizers: education=better pay, job=prosperity, or insurance=better healthcare remains elusive for blacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/11/13/ST2007111300084.html">Middle-Class Dream Eludes African American Families

Nearly half of African Americans born to middle-income parents in the late 1960s plunged into poverty or near-poverty as adults, according to a new study -- a perplexing finding that analysts say highlights the fragile nature of middle-class life for many African Americans.

Overall, family incomes have risen for both blacks and whites over the past three decades. But in a society where the privileges of class and income most often perpetuate themselves from generation to generation, black Americans have had more difficulty than whites in transmitting those benefits to their children.

Forty-five percent of black children whose parents were solidly middle class in 1968 -- a stratum with a median income of $55,600 in inflation-adjusted dollars -- grew up to be among the lowest fifth of the nation's earners, with a median family income of $23,100. Only 16 percent of whites experienced similar downward mobility. At the same time, 48 percent of black children whose parents were in an economic bracket with a median family income of $41,700 sank into the lowest income group.

[madrchsod]

10. i understand racism in america

what i am saying is that there are children of all colors who go hunger in the usa every dam day because their parents or parent are not able to supply their basic needs.

[SoCalDem]

8. because their parents cannot earn enough to pay rent, AND feed them