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Here is a blog that you can sink your teeth into this Thanksgiving. It’s called invisiblepeople.tv/blog. Check it out. Meanwhile, lots and lots of people can’t even feed themselves while Congress tries to push through a plan to pay off the pharmaceutical industry with taxes on foreign drugs and they call that health care reform. It’s so shameful, and yet they try to make you believe it is needed even though they have got to know that lots of people don’t even have the ability to earn a living. Here are the inconvenient truths…
There were 49 million people – 17 million of them children – last year unable to consistently get enough food to eat, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on November 16, 2009. This represents 14.6% of all households and is a 3.5-percentage-point jump over 2007. It is the largest recorded since the agency began measuring hunger in 1995.
Of those 49 million, 12 million adults and 5.2 million children reported experiencing the country’s most severe hunger, possibly going days without eating. Among the children, nearly half a million in the developmentally critical years under age 6 were going hungry. That’s three times the number in 2006.
The study documented both “low food security,” which describes people unable to consistently get enough to eat, and “very low food security,” in which people reported being hungry various times over the year but were unable to eat because there wasn’t enough money for food.
Welcome to the Obama Depression. It’s kind of like the Obama Deception, except these are the ones who are paying the price for the deception. Remember this when you watch the Senate on Saturday night debate whether to throw a whole new bunch of folks out onto the streets…
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