1 in 5 Children in US Suffers From Hunger

[MattShizzle]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/children-poverty-stat-reaches-147-million-14329047

While some people have more than they could ever use. Utterly disgusting.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Remember that FOX report about how the "poor" had refrigerators? Yeah just look how full those things are.

[Madslatter]

"How 'poor' are these people. When last I checked, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was still food wasn't it?, and if they wanted food, they could get a job easily." - Most likely media narrative on Fox tomorrow.

[ВАЛТЕР]

What nonsense is this? Nobody starves in Amurrrica! Home of the brave land of the free! If they don't like it they should go out and get jobs or go live in communist Russia or something!!!

/Sarcasm

It really is sad that there are people ANYWHERE suffering from hunger. ESPECIALLY in a nation where the rich have more money than they can ever spend in their lifetime...it is sad and pitiful.:crying:

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

We live in America the country of imperialists and hunger
Sad sad world :(

[ВАЛТЕР]

We live in America the country of imperialists and hunger
Sad sad world :(
Shhhh don't let the public know about this.

bread and circuses, bread and circuses...

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

Shhhh don't let the public know about this.

bread and circuses, bread and circuses...
But then what will fox news report on? Little league baseball? Or the millionaires and how they got their money?

Not in my America.

[RedSonRising]

Maybe now people don't think that this type of shit only happens to brown people in third world countries, or that the working class isn't on some permanent welfare-funded vacation.

[MattShizzle]

Sad part is FAUX "news" gets the trailer park crowd to feel lucky they are doing better than those living in inner-city projects or who are poor. And gets some middle class people to be happy and think the poor are that way because they are lazy. And the not-so-right wing media in the US gets them to either be happy or push for European-style liberalism to at least be way better than the US is now. The plutocrats don't want that but would prefer it to revolution and being put against the wall. Nobody with a voice likely to be heard tells them there's a better way - where those who work get what they work for and those who can't work get a decent standard of living and nobody earns a dime just because they already have money.

[MattShizzle]

This is the sort of thing that convinces me anyone who thinks Capitalism is a good idea who isn't rich needs to be educated or sent to the mental hospital if that doesn't work and if they are rich they need to go against the wall. People still think they have a chance of getting rich - when they almost certainly don't. It would be way better if nobody was rich if it also meant nobody was destitute.

[Sugarnotch]

This is the sort of thing that convinces me anyone who thinks Capitalism is a good idea who isn't rich needs to be educated or sent to the mental hospital if that doesn't work and if they are rich they need to go against the wall. People still think they have a chance of getting rich - when they almost certainly don't. It would be way better if nobody was rich if it also meant nobody was destitute.

Give me a break. "People who don't agree with me are mentally ill and rich people should be shot." Those are some bold claims.

[DaringMehring]

The USA is the world's biggest economy and the dominant Imperialist power.
Yet so many children are still tortured by want for the most basic commodity of life.

Capitalism is a fucking failure.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Give me a break. "People who don't agree with me are mentally ill and rich people should be shot." Those are some bold claims.

I see what you're saying.

I aspire to a stoic attitude. People who actively support a system with full knowledge that it causes unnecessary human suffering up to and including countless avoidable deaths, though, are morally culpable in such a way that it's not at all hard to be scornful toward them if you understand that such scorn goes far beyond simply resenting the "different opinion" of the rich.

The narrative of the rich is just as much promoted by their socioeconomic interests as a proletarian narrative is by revolutionary workers, but it's not absurd to suggest that it takes a sort of sociopathic lack of empathy to sit on millions of dollars or more while things like the starvation noted by the OP are occurring.

[Lucretia]

That this is taking place in a country with a huge epidemic in childhood obesity is also telling.