Let Them Eat Cake
Well, I dunno about you, but I for one am ready for some Good News, and USA Today was kind enough to provide it.
They tell me the number of folks struggling with hunger fell in the Homeland in 2005, the first decline in six years. Coincidentally, those six years correspond to the six years of GWB's presidency, a period during which billions of tax dollars that might otherwise have been spent on needful domestic programs have been thrown into the gaping maw of Iraq and Afghanistan.
So what can account for this precipitious fall in the ranks of the hungry--from 38 million in 2004 to 35 million in 2005? Perhaps it has something to do with their getting on the new wave of the longevity theory bandwagon, i.e., restricting food in the hope of extending their hungry lives.
What great progress! I'll bet these 35 million are planning a party to celebrate this impressive drop in hunger stats. Perhaps Mr. Bush will even let them eat cake.
35 million people have hunger issues in America. Does this bother anyone else as much as it does me? This seems like another 35 million reasons to end the Iraqi expedition, now.
By my homely reckoning, if we've just passed our 300 millionth resident, this statistic means that over one out of ten people in America struggles to put enough food on the table, if they have a table. To quote Mr. Bush, we need to make the pie higher. We can't do that by sending all of the apples over to Iraq.
Jim and Lisa
They tell me the number of folks struggling with hunger fell in the Homeland in 2005, the first decline in six years. Coincidentally, those six years correspond to the six years of GWB's presidency, a period during which billions of tax dollars that might otherwise have been spent on needful domestic programs have been thrown into the gaping maw of Iraq and Afghanistan.
So what can account for this precipitious fall in the ranks of the hungry--from 38 million in 2004 to 35 million in 2005? Perhaps it has something to do with their getting on the new wave of the longevity theory bandwagon, i.e., restricting food in the hope of extending their hungry lives.
What great progress! I'll bet these 35 million are planning a party to celebrate this impressive drop in hunger stats. Perhaps Mr. Bush will even let them eat cake.
35 million people have hunger issues in America. Does this bother anyone else as much as it does me? This seems like another 35 million reasons to end the Iraqi expedition, now.
By my homely reckoning, if we've just passed our 300 millionth resident, this statistic means that over one out of ten people in America struggles to put enough food on the table, if they have a table. To quote Mr. Bush, we need to make the pie higher. We can't do that by sending all of the apples over to Iraq.
Jim and Lisa
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