While many Americans among our generally well-fed people are struggling with problems of bulging waistlines, it is highly disturbing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that one in seven American households has struggled to have enough food for reasonable nutrition during the past year.
We don't want anyone to go hungry, for any reason. That's why we have tax-financed food stamps and countless fine charities. So it is discouraging to hear that 14.6 percent of U.S. households suffer from what is called "food insecurity."
The dip in the nation's economy obviously is part of a continuing problem. It's one that we want to solve, but have difficulty doing so.
Hungry,poorly educated,and with no health care. That would describe millions of Americans and the number is growing rapidly. Are these lazy,shiftless people looking for a handout? Maybe a few,but most are just like the rest of us,but with a couple of bad turns in the road.
How would each of us behave if our family was hungry and we felt desperate?
With compassion, my heart goes out to those who are truly in need and make efforts to better their situations. In my lifetime, however, I have seen a growing number who are lazy and just do not care if they do better.Some live continually off the government or relatives or whomever prevents their working. I wish we could somehow balance the truly needy from the ones who could but refuse to do better. I wish the real needy could be helped to the uttermost. Yet the ones who plunder the government or churches and other organizations, take away from what can be done for the least, the last, the most needy. My belief is when the government adds health care to all who claim to need it free we will find a lot larger number claiming that status. Guess we will have to wait and see how that works out for us.
Livn
Maybe we should build community euthanasia centers,but then we would still have the problem of who decides if we didn't have enough volunteers.
After all,we do euthanize pets when they no longer serve our purpose; we don't seem to have a problem with that. It's just the who decides thing.
I have gone hungry and I've known countless of desperate people-in and out of the ghettos. Poor and middle class folks used to reach out and share, help each other. Churches (yes those horrible hypocrites that so many on these posts love to criticize) have always done the lion's share of charitable giving. Studies show that the most generous people in America are NOT millionaires and billionaires, but the poor and middle class.
We worked and survived. Nowadays, I've seen countless families cheating the welfare system, selling food stamps for drugs and other wonderful activities that rob, not the government because it gets the money for these programs from guess who, the hapless taxpayer. It's so easy to talk about spending ours and future generations money when you're already set for life or not working.
Every time I've seen any gov't take over programs that the private sector used to run, there's been huge increases in waste, fraud and corruption. Fancy that. Too bad we can't hold them accountable when they take our money and then don't do their job of tracking where it went.
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