ATTENTION -- Any Lurking Members of the MSM!

[theHandpuppet]

I know so many of y'all are otherwise engaged in your masturbatory wargasm exercises, but do y'all think you could come up for air long enough to ask Herr Chimperor a few questions concerning domestic crises such as this -- that is, if you're not to busy chuckling it up at your next WH press briefing?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/0510290939...

Source: Brandeis University
Posted: October 29, 2005

Hunger In America Rises By 43 Percent Over Last Five Years

Hunger in American households has risen by 43 percent over the last five years, according to an analysis of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data released today. The analysis, completed by the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University, shows that more than 7 million people have joined the ranks of the hungry since 1999.

The USDA report, Household Food Security in the United States, 2004, says that 38.2 million Americans live in households that suffer directly from hunger and food insecurity, including nearly 14 million children. That figure is up from 31 million Americans in 1999.

"This is an unexpected and even stunning outcome," noted center director Dr. J. Larry Brown, a leading scholarly authority on domestic hunger. "This chronic level of hunger so long after the recession ended means that it is a man-made problem. Congress and the White House urgently need to address growing income inequality and the weakening of the safety net in order to get this epidemic under control." According to the Center on Hunger and Poverty, food insecurity increased by nearly a million households from 2003 to 2004. Rates of hunger increased in almost every single category of household during the same time, with single mothers and those living in or near poverty continuing to suffer from severely high rates of both food insecurity and hunger..."

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[annabanana]

1. but. . stavation is unphotogenic...

There are no great action shots, explosions....
If people blew up when they starved it might get some coverage...

[theHandpuppet]

2. And of course, there is our ever-unglamorous homeless population...

... to ignore unless there's a sound byte to grab on "Bumfights".

The following report does NOT include the number of people left homeless by Katrina, either.

http://english.people.com.cn/200603/09/eng20060309_249263.html

US has 727,304 homeless people nationwide: report

Last year, the United States found 727,304 homeless people nationwide, meaning about one in every 400 Americans were without a home, according to the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005 issued by the Information Office of China's State Council Thursday. The figures came from The USA Today published on Oct. 12, 2005.

(snipping)

"The United States dubs the world's richest country, however, it maintains the highest poverty rate among developed countries," the report says, given a study of eight advanced countries by London School of Economics in 2005, which found that the United States had the worst social inequality.

On the one hand, the report says, in recent years the fortunes of the rich have continued to rise in the United States. According to two new studies by Spectrem Group, a Chicago-based wealth-research firm, and the Boston Consulting Group, millionaire households (excluding the value of primary residences) in the United States controlled more than 11 trillion in assets in 2004, up more than 8 percent from 2003.

Meanwhile, the income of ordinary employees in the United States has seen a sharp decline, causing the increase of poor population. The data issued by the U.S. Census Bureau said that the nation's official poverty rate rose from 12.5 percent in 2003 to 12.7 percent in 2004, with the number of people in poverty rising by 1.1 million from 35.9 million to 37 million, which means one in every eight Americans live in poverty. Poverty rates in cities such as Detroit, Miami and Newark exceeded 28 percent....

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It's not like this problem should be foreign to our own press; after all, other countries have taken notice of these appalling statistics for years!
Some links:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0308/S00011.htm (from 2003)
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/481800 (from 2004)
http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149189798789&path=!news (August 2006)

[zalinda]

3. But, didn't you know, it's good for them

they're too fat already. Why look at all these obese "poor" people, they must be eating well because they're fat. :sarcasm:

zalinda

[badgerpup]

4. Mac & cheese and Ramen noodles will do that to ya...

...won't give ya much on the nutrition front, mind you...but as an old acquaintance of mine used to say;
"At least it makes a turd." :eyes: :banghead:

[lonestarnot]

5. Merikans are tooo fat doncha know?

[Anita Garcia]

6. masturbatory wargasm exercises

If only it was safe enough for Corporate Media to MGE in Iraq.
Nice word smithing!

[area51]

7. Hunger in America

"This chronic level of hunger so long after the recession ended...."

Well, there's the problem right there, starting from a false premise. We've never left the recession. We're seeing the same poverty, same hunger, same lack of jobs as during the 1st Great Depression of the '30s.

[tbyg52]

9. Yup.

Things are good only if you're looking at them from the top. The middle class and below are circling the drain.

[Boomer]

8. k&r

[theHandpuppet]

10. Are you on a first-name basis with "Tony" and "Jeff"?

Then this :kick: is for you!

HOLD... HIM... ACCOUNTABLE!