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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:56 +0000

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By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:40:14 +0000

Before you give me a lesson on statistics, you should learn to read first.

Poor people are more likely to be fat, therefore no poor people go hungry? Surely as a mechanical engineer you should understand statistics better than that.

Please copy and past out of my post where I said “no poor people go hungry? When did “more likely” become your “no?”

So in your day at least some of the poor were responsible people who tried to take good care of their kids. But nowadays none of them are? If you’re any younger than Methuselah I can assure you that the sweeping generalizations you make about the poor, as though they were all that way, were alive and well. And yet your parents didn’t fit that mold. How is that?

Different generation dumb shit. In sixties. There was not today’s entitlement system that subsidized McDonnlds’s meals while parents get to spend their cash of tats. I suppose you haven’t noticed the increase in such decadent behavior the poor? Sure you haven’t.

By: Vinny G.

Vinny G. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:53:56 +0000

WTF: The statistics speak louder than the hypocritical messages we get out of the South. We could easily credit most social problems of this country to the backward mentality of the South that the entire nation has to bend over backward to accommodate.

Vinny
PS — I lived in the South and for 2 years I even went to a Southern Baptist church (with one of those with millionaire preachers DownSouth mentioned), and I saw first hand what I write about here.

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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:42:30 +0000

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By: Skippy

Skippy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:25:09 +0000

I went for a little foray and found my self here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfgtcZ0e0Fc&feature=related

Skippy…the farm for the both of them.

By: Skippy

Skippy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:08:33 +0000

Too this day Clydesdale’s make me thirsty!

Skippy…body by bud.

By: Doug Terpstra

Doug Terpstra — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:24:52 +0000

Alex, your sarcasm borders on blasphemy. GS is self-ordained to do God’s work, and according to the gospel of prosperity, one’s net worth is a direct measure of God’s favor. You risk the wrath of divine lightning upon your wicked crown with such sacrilege and heresy.

By: Kay4

Kay4 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:03:33 +0000

Hungar and food insecurity are not one of our biggest problems, and i believe that there will always be classes there have been in most place through out the world and time nothing we do can change that. We should look at the past to figure out that we can’t really change much for the poor…there will always be people in poverty.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:00 +0000

American schools systems have been eliminating Home Economics from their curriculum. Cooking at home, especially when done together as a family, seems to be more rare in the face of children’s homework, TV, xBox, soccer practice, ballet rehearsal and piano lessons.

While there may be slack in households budgets for food, can we convince parents there is enough time?

By: Mickey, Akron, Ohio

Mickey, Akron, Ohio — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:58:05 +0000

Let’s see… Perhaps we need to enact New Poor Laws! Oh, I forgot, supply-side economics has accomplished much the same thing.

Since the United States is the only country where poor people are fat we should outlaw “fast food” and obesity would likely solve itself. Of course, unemployment would increase…

Couple that with religious fundamentalism – CALVINISM – and you’re poor because you are lazy. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Good fortune implies the good graces of God! What is it you don’t understand?

But what if the “poor” began to eat the “rich”? Would they become leaner and meaner climbing the stairway to heaven?

My family and I plan on donating all monies for XMAS gifts to the local food bank. In fact, I’ve decided that whenever unemployment reaches a certain threshold this will become standard practice. And given the jobless recovery predicted I suspect I will be doing this far into the future. If any of you can do the same please consider doing so. Happy Thanksgiving!