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USDA’s Economic Research Service’s (ERS) today released its annual report on Household Food Security in the U.S., which revealed that in 2008, 17 million households, or 14.6 percent, were food insecure and families had difficulty putting enough food on the table at times during the year. This is an increase from 13 million households, or 11.1 percent, in 2007. The 2008 figures represent the highest level observed since nationally representative food security surveys were initiated in 1995.

Obesity and hunger are rising in the US at the same time?

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In the first nine months of this year, the firm [Goldman Sachs] set aside about $17 billion for bonuses and other compensation.

Let’s see, 9 months is about 275 days. 17 billion / 17 million is 1000. $1000 / 275 is $3.64. You can give a kid a good meal for $3.64, particularly if you’re cooking. So basically, GS is paying in bonuses pretty much the exact amount it would cost to every give ever food-insecure kid in America a meal every day during the same period.

Just sayin’.

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If the U.S. government bought a lottery ticket tomorrow and won, and then Obama said every cent of that money would be used to buy food for poor families, I am absolutely certain that the teabaggers would call him a socialist and denounce the move as “socialized shopping” or some equally asinine phrase. Now here’s the funny part:

We could get…ten, twenty lottery tickets worth of money out of canceling bullshit military research projects *alone*. And the reason we don’t is because everyone in D.C. is afraid of the people who would denounce socialized shopping if they got the chance. Americans live in a country where siphoning money from nonsense research about how to build a gun that best compensates for your tiny penis towards feeding children who don’t get enough to eat is a political liability. I’m laughing and I don’t know why because it’s not funny.