Not only do we have 40 million Americans without health insurance, we now find out that there are 36 million without food! Mark Finkelstein reported this earlier today and I am copying it so that you can see what a big fat lying liar Teddy is! :
Chris Wallace had Ted Kennedy cornered. The Fox News Sunday host displayed Kennedy’s 1995 bitter condemnation of welfare reform: “legislative child abuse . . . let them eat cake.” As Wallace began to reference the statement, Kennedy blustered “this is 2006″ – as if his past misjudgments are irrelevant though he palpably has learned nothing from them.
Wallace made the point that, contrary to Kennedy’s dire predictions, the employment rate among unmarried women has soared and the child poverty rate has dropped. He put it to Kennedy: “hasn’t welfare reform worked?” Fighting back, the senior senator from Massachusetts claimed that Wallace’s numbers on child poverty “are absolutely wrong,” asserting there has been an increase in the number of children living in poverty in the United States. He then dropped this bomb:
“We have 36 million Americans that are going to bed hungry every night. 36 million Americans! And 12 million of those are children!”
View video of Kennedy’s 36-million claim here.
Kennedy’s Hobbesian portrait of an America in which more than 10% of people go to bed hungry every night is flatly false. According to the USDA, 13 million households, containing 36 million people, reported that at least one household member was food insecure in a recent year. “Food insecure” means that such households at some time during the year were uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food for all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources.”
Yet Kennedy counted every person who might have been “uncertain” of having enough money to get food – at any time during the year – as “going to bed hungry every night.”
As has been widely noted, the major food-related problem for poor children isn’t hunger – it’s obesity.
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation is an expert on these issues. Here’s what he recently wrote on the subject:
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“While hunger due to a lack of financial re-sources does occur in the United States, it is limited in scope and duration. According to the USDA, on a typical day, fewer than one American in 200 will experience hunger due to a lack of money to buy food.”
In a country of 300 million, that means something less than 1.5 million people.
It’s a shame Chris Wallace didn’t have these facts handy. But one thing is clear: Kennedy’s claim that 36 million go to bed hungry every night was nothing short of a . . . big, fat lie.
Transcript here
“Guys”, old Ted Kennedy is not talking about people inside the former USA But in the third world like mexico, its about the North American Union not this joke called the USA.
OLD hand-over to mexico Kennedy! is not about this so-called country but his friends and drug dealers who rule over the hispanic people, in other words its about mexico which has about 40 million little inidians who do go to bed hungry he wants you to get that point, its not what you think.
This comming froma wealthy kennedy who gose to 5 star restruants every week and blabbers about those who go to bed hungry why dont he ada little to help the poor?:roll:
So let him go and give away his ilgotten fortune. He lives on all the money his rum runner da-da stole. The first family of corruption should just make amends by supporting all the hungry. He can then get a job driving a taxi, maybe he would do the country a favor and try to drive the taxi over a bridge.
Teddy Boy, just because your one a diet, and as big as you are you could count as 36 million, doesn’t mean “going to bed hungry” is a bad thing. Considering the number of fat kids we have running around, and people on motorized vehicles I see in buffets… Going to bed hungry would be a good start for some of these fat@$$es.
See anything wrong with this statement? Since the Hamilton report has been issued, 40 Americans have been killed. Our military has been in Iraq longer than in World War II, World War I, longer than the Vietnam War.
#3 I am with you. The Kennedy bootloegging fortune would not end hunger, but could do a lot of good for a lot of those desperately needy people. Break the trust they have set up to protect the Kennedy fortune from the confiscatory taxes people like Kennedy impose on the rest of us.
F’ing hypocrite…
Perhaps 36 million people in the U.S. go to bed every night despising the bloated, treasonous, hypocritical buffoon.
Maybe with any luck for our country, he’ll completly destroy his liver.
He can’t be that far away from doing so:eek:
Kennedy’s information is from the USDA. Look it up. They say 36 million AMericans go to bed hungry every evening. Pitiful.
Boy you sure are quick Holly! None of us would have thought to look it up! Oh wait, we did, it is right there in the post, including the USDA data…
36 million hungry every night? That’s unacceptable!!! We need to immediately, on a Federal, State, and local level, institute a program to supply food stamps to needy families! We need to supplement their budgets with direct cash assistance payments, we need to provide earned income credit (more cash) for low income earners! We also need to subsidize or pay rent for these poor and low income people so they have enough money for food! And that’s not enough, we need to provide County hospitals with clinics and ERs for these people with no health insurance so they can keep their money for food purchases!!!
Oh, wait, that’s already all being done…
That 36 million number is like the human-caused Global Warming/Climate Change fraud. It is bullshit, nonsense. If any kids go hungry it is because of abuse or mismanagement by their parents. But that doesn’t stop a blowhard demagogue like ChapaTraitor from using it for [political purposes.
Heeeeee’s back…too bad for the country…