Do 10% of Americans REALLY need government help to eat?

2009 April 03 post from voodoo

New numbers released show that 1 in 10 Americans gets 'assistance' to buy food.  Haven't we been waging a 'war against poverty' in this country for decades?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE5314B320090403

Like most American-made wars, when it looks like the battle could possibly be won, you simply create more victims...or terrorists as the case may be.  The American 'poor' do better than the 3rd worlds rich.

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at 1:24 p.m. on April 3, 2009, swirsky says...
You also realize that if every American lost 10 pounds, we'd save a ton of energy! (Think of all that extra weight we have to drive around.) So there are hidden costs to this.
 
 

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