American Public Media’s “Marketplace” believes that the country is “in a heightened hunger crisis.”
“Hunger in America is on the rise,” according to the editor of the Osceola Sun.
Earlier this month, West Virginia’s GOP governor handed a million taxpayer dollars to the “Facing Hunger Foodbank in Huntington and Mountaineer Food Bank in Gassaway.” (“The bottom line to the whole thing is we don’t need people going hungry in West Virginia.”)
And Portland’s KPTV claims that if it weren’t “for local food pantries, the hunger problem in Oregon and Southwest Washington might be a lot worse.”
Nonsense. Hunger is very close to extinct in America, and it’s time to stop pretending otherwise.
Economist Donald J. Boudreaux: “Food in the U.S. is remarkably inexpensive, which is attested to by the fact that ours is the first society in history whose poor people suffer disproportionately from obesity.” Don’t trust him? Perhaps you’ll trust the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Its latest figures show that the obesity rate for adults in households enjoying incomes that surpass 350 percent of the poverty level is 31.2 percent. For households earning less than 130 percent of the poverty threshold, obesity prevalence is 39.0 percent.
Folks at the opposite end of the victuals spectrum are difficult to locate. Accessing data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s December 2021 Current Population Survey, the USDA’s September exploration of household eating habits yielded results consistent with past inquiries. Asked to choose which answer best described their food situation, a mere 0.7 percent of respondents picked “often not enough to eat.”
Less than 1 percent. That’s colossally different than the “1 in 6” — or even “1 in 5” — claims that professional hunger alarmists regularly make. Their disinformation campaign, employing weasel terms such as “food insecurity” and “food deserts,” snookers the stupid in media, government, and the charitable sector. It shouldn’t fool you.
So this holiday season, skip bringing a big bag of Dinty Moore, Ronzoni, Campbell’s, Smuckers, Green Giant, Goya, Del Monte, and Planters to the nearest food bank. Shift your generosity to a real challenge. For your consideration, here are three options worthy of attention and money.
• In 2020, the “percentage of all births to unmarried women was 40.5%.” That’s within striking distance of the record high of 41.0%, reached in 2009. Some husbandless mothers eventually get married, but that phenomenon is offset by the massive number of married parents who divorce.
Simply put, widespread single motherhood is a catastrophe in America. (Even a few voices on the left have finally acknowledged the impact of “family fragmentation.”) The statistics are overwhelming, and deeply depressing. Growing up without a father puts children at greater risk for behavioral-health issues, dropping out of school, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, obesity, and criminality/imprisonment. But when “no judging” is the cultural norm, the pressure to stay silent is crushing. Ignore it. Tell the truth — no matter whom you “offend.” And consider a contribution to the National Fatherhood Initiative.
• Substance abuse is arguably as bad as it’s ever been in United States. Two months before lockdown lunacy, research published in the journal Alcoholism “found the number of alcohol-related deaths more than doubled between 1999 and 2017 … and the rate of alcohol-related deaths rose by more than 50 percent.” Remaining in the pre-Rona era, between 1999 and 2019, the fatality rate for alcoholic cirrhosis more than tripled. And last year, “109,000 people died from a drug overdose, more than double the number in 2015.”
In addition to the human toll, addiction afflicts the economy. In May, a study released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimated that “increased substance abuse” could account “for between 9 percent and 26 percent of the decline in prime-age labor force participation between February 2020 and June 2021.”
• The federal government is approaching insolvency. No one knows the day or hour of the debtpocalypse. The impending pain could have been avoided, with meaningful entitlement reform/privatization in the late 1990s, no invasions/occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s, and pro-growth policies that would have produced higher tax revenue and a wealthier populace. But as Dade County Circuit Court Judge Edward Cowart told Ted Bundy, “you went another way, partner.” Every day that Washington refuses to cut spending, the coming calamity worsens. Maybe it’s the right moment for a critical mass of influential Americans to educate themselves about the nature of the crisis, and unapologetically advocate for solutions?
America’s dance card of disaster is full. Fortunately, hunger isn’t on the list. Let’s get to work on problems that actually exist.
NM has the worst public schools in the country and is #2 in the country for per capita violent crime and #2 for per capita property crime. The response of our elected "leaders?" Legalize recreational marijuana. NM will eventually crash financially from it's underfunded defined benefit public sector pensions. ERA and PERA are underfunded by BILLIONS of dollars.
1) Healthier Food would really help make America Healthier! How many of these Foodies go out for a Salmon with Broccoli and a Side Salad?! Healthier Food in good tasting ways (without Nitrates) would benefit everyone. Stop selling the Sonic Drive-In Crap!! Nothing in the ice cream piled with Fudge, Fake Strawberry Sauce, Chocolate & Whipped Cream is helping anyone!! If you're going to WOKE someone, go WOKE-ass on the Fatties that are polluting our toilets!! Anyone over-weight must start a program to loose their weight. Mountain Climbing or Biking would be a good start!! Ride your Bike to work Month would be a nice exercise!! Since, (Thanks to the Democrats) we aren't going to have cars anymore!
2) The Drug problem could be solved by arresting Hunter Biden for doing drugs on his F__king Laptop and making it public to the World. Seeing that Shithead sitting in a jail cell would be GREAT motivation for getting kids to wake up and realize that being WOKE is a JOKE!! Also, stealing money for the purpose of enriching his Father (Sippy-Cup Joe) would be another reason to put the Loser behind bars!!!! We could also Close the Border. If Sippy-Cup Joe refuses to do his job as President to STOP Illegal Immigration and Fentanyl from pouring across our Borders, put him on the next Rocket Ship to Mars, with no plans for a return trip!! Remember KIDs........uhmm, DRUGS R BAD!!
3) Teach women to please their man and the man will stick around and be the Daddy to these kids!! Really Women, you haven't come as far as you think!! If you're gonna have babies then make sure there is a man to be the Father!! If not, be a good Democrat and get an abortion!! I hate abortions!! But I hate fatherless children even more!! Women want to control their own bodies. FINE!! Now show the World that you know how to get a man for more than one night!! That doesn't include men that abuse their woman. Men that abuse women or women that abuse men will have to be dealt with in such a cruel way, that they will want to stop being stupid or die!! All in all, men and women both need to be better humans, because children matter and families matter!!
4) If most of us get into debt, we lose our Cars, Trucks, Wives, and eventually our Home! The US government thinks that printing money is the answer to ALL problems. Here are some recommendations for bringing our DEBT down from $31 Trillion Dollars. 1) Start charging the Political Parties a fine for every dollar they allocate and fail to spend properly! Make the Democrats and any Republican that voted for the "Inflation Reduction Act" Pay a $10 Million Dollar Fine for every dollar not producing a Tax Reduction, and that includes Biden!! We need to put the fear of GOD into our Politicians and force them to be accountable!! 2) Stop spending money!! Tell Americans in detail why we are broke!! And why no money will be spent! The Government will have to shut down and projects will be put on hold until we PROVE we have a plan to balance the budget!! 3) Default on all money owed to China.......period!! Tell China that since they have released diseases and terror into the World, we are defaulting all the money they have floated to us. Like it was a forgivable loan!! The US is broke because of you and now, so are you!!
Got anymore problems to solve?! I'm right here!!