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O'Reilly: "You Are Telling Me That You Believe In The United States Of America ... There Are Urchins Running Around That Don't Have Any Food Because Of The System?"http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/10/06/bill-oreilly-denies-the-existance-of-child-hung/205998
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The U.S. has one of the highest relative child poverty rates in the developed world. As UNICEF reports, [Childrens] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States.
Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty.
$5 a Day for Food, But Congress Thought it was Too Much.
Nearly half of all food stamp recipients are children, and they averaged about $5 a day for their meals before the 2014 farm bill cut $8.6 billion (over the next ten years) from the food stamp program.
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/15/americas_staggering_child_poverty_these_numbers_speak_for_themselves_partner/
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)ck4829
(35,070 posts)This isn't news, this isn't faux news (take that as you will), this isn't propaganda, this isn't fallacious thinking, this isn't even something that can be called false. It is false of course, but why this was said was said for an entirely different reason...
This is an attack of a right wing media war against this nation's poorest and most powerless citizens.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)The media moguls would be very happy enslaving the planet and plan on it .
BarackTheVote
(938 posts)for people to have computers? Computers are a virtual necessity in today's world, especially if you are job-hunting or in school.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)he only hears what is rattling around in his empty head and has no empathy for anyone. he thinks he "made it" after having "working class roots" but he only made it because there are enough angry and pathetic people who are willing to lap up the putrid bile he spews forth.
credit to our own admiral loinpresser, whose words i altered for the title of my post (his referred to bill maher)
prayin4rain
(2,065 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)People like O'Reilly are clueless. This reminds me of the time he claimed there are zero homeless veterans in New York City.
spanone
(135,830 posts)our culture supports fucks like o'reilly...makes them very rich men by supporting their shit agendas.
ala ru$h limbaugh
closeupready
(29,503 posts)for more than one of them, this facet of their jobs was a shared one:
While Barbara was the winner among the two New Haven Public Schools chefs, she won a lot more than just crosstown bragging rights.
She -- along with her competitors, who all were chosen for their commitment, dedication and talent in making delicious, healthful meals from fresh foods -- won a healthy level of respect for raising the bar on a profession that, in addition to making things tasty, is charged with preparing what sometimes are the only healthful meals kids get.
"Stereotypes of lunch ladies with the hair nets, serving slop -- that's not it!" Barbara said during a lead-in segment for the competion.
"For a lot of these kids, lunch is the last meal of the day," and it's a challenge "just to get them fed," she said.
http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20111122/new-haven-school-lunch-lady-named-chopped-champ
deutsey
(20,166 posts)are nothing but soulless, corporatist shills. They will gladly say anything to push that agenda and to line their own pockets.
summerschild
(725 posts)Nothing between his ears but air.
Orrex
(63,208 posts)Several of my kids' classmates rely on the school for breakfast and lunch, because otherwise they'd only have one meal or less.
What a fucking asshole. His assets should be seized and liquidated to provide food for starving American children.