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I do not believe the claim that 50 million Americans go hungry not with EBT at a all time high and they give it to any American that qualifies. I love the intro where they show a bunch of people eating and a couple filling up a trunk of a car with groceries. I am just wondering when was the last time someone starved to death and why? With the gvt and private charity I do not think we have a hunger problem. Looking at the populace it looks like the opposite we have a obesity problem instead.
I do not believe the claim that 50 million Americans go hungry not with EBT at a all time high and they give it to any American that qualifies. I love the intro where they show a bunch of people eating and a couple filling up a trunk of a car with groceries. I am just wondering when was the last time someone starved to death and why? With the gvt and private charity I do not think we have a hunger problem. Looking at the populace it looks like the opposite we have a obesity problem instead.
50 Million people do not go hungry per the Census.
Liberals make a false assumption that poverty = going hungry, 1/6th of the country is in poverty and 1/6th of 300 million equals 50 million people going hungry.
However, 80% of people in poverty self-reported to the census that they never had to go hungry during the past year due to the many food programs at the national, state, city, and even church level. Only 5.9% of those in poverty claimed to sometimes not have enough food and 1.5% of those in poverty claimed to often not have enough food over the past 4 months. Much of these people were homeless...truly destitute people. If you have a home, you most likely reported that you NEVER had to go hungry over the past YEAR.
I know someone on WIC that gives away food.
Last edited by michiganmoon; 08-03-2013 at 11:41 PM..
50 Million people do not go hungry per the Census.
Liberals make a false assumption that poverty = going hungry, 1/6th of the country is in poverty and 1/6th of 300 million equals 50 million people going hungry.
However, 80% of people in poverty self-reported to the census that they never had to go hungry during the past year due to the many food programs at the national, state, city, and even church level.
I know someone on WIC that gives away food.
Do you have a source for that? Also, if that is accurate, that still means that 20 % of people in poverty did go hungry during the past year.
Do you have a source for that? Also, if that is accurate, that still means that 20 % of people in poverty did go hungry during the past year.
Click the link, look at the footnote to the US Census.
The point is not that no one goes hungry.
The point is that people are misrepresenting, probably unintentionally, reality -- they are vastly exaggerating the amount of people going hungry. NOT everyone in poverty is going hungry per their own words to the US Census.
If only 1.5% of those in poverty self-report to go hungry often and 5.9% sometimes go hungry...that destroys the claim that all 50+ million people in poverty are going hungry. You are now looking at 3.74 Million people that sometimes/often go hungry in the past 4 months.
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