"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:06:24 -0500, "Gregory Morrow"
> > wrote:
>
>
>>And "food to hoard"? Ya gotta be *kidding*, food in the US is cheaper and
>>more available than at *any* time anywheres in history.
>
> The problem is there is to MUCH food. Which is why the US government
> subsidizes almost a buck per bushel of corn. Then the stuff rots or
> is made into something else that we really don't need but the big food
> giants can get rich on.
>
>>Otherwise what
>>accounts for the huge amount of obesity in this country, *especially*
>>among
>>the poor...a time traveler from a century ago - or even from 1940 - would
>>be
>>pretty amazed to be set down in a ghetto or barrio or rural trailer park
>>and
>>told that those people are "poor".
>
> I'm about halfway through reading "BUILDING HOUSES OUT OF CHICKEN LEGS
> Black Women, Food, and Power." The black ladies in the book would
> be amazed that people get money for food without doing anything for
> it. The article that Dog 3 seemed to be leaning in the direction
> that the people weren't getting enough. If I were to need food stamps
> I'd be glad for anything I could get rather than bitching I wasn't
> getting enough.
>
> So far this is a great book:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/bo....html?emc=eta1

That's what annoys me about the welfare state: wholesale encouragement
of fecklessness.


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