35 million Americans faced hunger in 2006

[txsvicki]

And if they don't get it immediately, they call up their ACLU rep and make waves.

I'm a single mother with a daughter in her last year of high school and two in middle school. I'm not on welfare and don't ask for hand-outs. But my children don't look half as nice as many immigrant children with their fancy labeled clothes and high-tech gadgets.

I know many of their parents work hard and not all take the government for what they can get, but many do. I'm sick of it.

When I worked in retail, the company said that a study was done and Hispanic people spend more money on their kids' clothes than any other people.

 

[mostlylurking]

So, can we just look at the statistics pulled today from our US census bureau, and realize that no matter where the person was born, more than 1 in 10 of the US population is facing hunger insecurity and 2 out of 10 children live below poverty level.

Every 10th person you see today may not now how they will eat tonight. Not all of them are on cash public assistance (which is different than state health/medicaid -- couldn't find that stat).

What a sad statement.


Population ------------------------------------------------------------303,431,477

number people facing hunger security -----------------35,000,000 (11.53%)
Number of housing units/households --------------------126,316,181
People /household ------------------------------------------------2.40
Housholds with cash public assistance income -----7,282,355
People with cash Public assistance ----------------------17,493,371 (5.77%)
People Who Are Foreign Born ------------------------------37,928,935 (12.50% )
Children Under 18 Years Below Poverty Level ------55,527,960 (18.30%)

 

[mic730]

OMG this is not right! I am ashamed this is happening.

 

[OneLostGrl]

I grew up on welfare and we still went hungry!

 

[White Rain]

Yet we can't spend ENOUGH on Iraqui (sp?) people, or the war, most who don't even want us over there according to a couple of news briefs I have read.
Why is it that we attend to every other nation before the US?
Did Bush do/ and/or provide anything for the local food drive? Or did he and his wife and/or girls eat in high style and forget about the poor folks?
How can you fix the world if you don't even start at home?
PULL OUT OF IRAQ AND WORRY ABOUT THE FOLKS AT HOME B4 YOU WORRY ABOUT hunger problems overseas.

 

[Buzz Mills]

Yet we can't spend ENOUGH on Iraqui (sp?) people, or the war, most who don't even want us over there according to a couple of news briefs I have read.
Why is it that we attend to every other nation before the US?
Did Bush do/ and/or provide anything for the local food drive? Or did he and his wife and/or girls eat in high style and forget about the poor folks?
How can you fix the world if you don't even start at home?
PULL OUT OF IRAQ AND WORRY ABOUT THE FOLKS AT HOME B4 YOU WORRY ABOUT hunger problems overseas.

The cost of the War In Iraq is as follows:

1st year 93 Billion
2nd year 126 Billion
3rd year 170 Billion
4th year 193 Billion
5th year will be well over $200 Billion

The long term financial damage done to America, up until now, by the War In Iraq, is estimated at 1600 Billion, or 1.6 Trillion.

Is there any wonder why there isn't money for the children's S-CHIP Health Program.

Almost all illegal immigrant families are below poverty level. Perhaps to lessen the problem, the 12-30 million illegal immigrants, that are here, need to leave our country.

 

[TaylorJ4]

My daughter goes to the Shriner's Hospital once a year for a checkup (she has some foot deformities). Last year I rode up in the Shriner's van, and we stopped to pick up a young Hispanic mother and her child. Neither of them spoke any English. This child was about 5 or 6, and had on more jewelry than I own! Gold chains, bracelets and rings. And his mother would not make him keep his seatbeat on; the van driver had to keep pulling over and making him put it back on. She spent the entire trip on her cell phone....

 

[PSUfan]

My daughter goes to the Shriner's Hospital once a year for a checkup (she has some foot deformities). Last year I rode up in the Shriner's van, and we stopped to pick up a young Hispanic mother and her child. Neither of them spoke any English. This child was about 5 or 6, and had on more jewelry than I own! Gold chains, bracelets and rings. And his mother would not make him keep his seatbeat on; the van driver had to keep pulling over and making him put it back on. She spent the entire trip on her cell phone....

Many many years ago, I had no health insurance.. was single, and pregnant. I applied for assistance.. not welfare, or foodstamps, just something that would help me if it ended up being a high risk pregnancy, etc. They wanted to throw all sorts of assistance at me. I told them that I was only concerned with the event of something going wrong in the pregnancy. It was a horribly humiliating time for me. And the room, filled with other welfare folks, literally smelled like a leather shop. Leather, and jewelry all over the place. ONE of those leather jackets was worth more than 2 weeks of my salary.