Newsmax host Rob Schmitt: “This whole idea that there's food insecurity in this country, what an illusion that is”
— Media Matters for America (@mmfa.bsky.social) October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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emaycee
Showing posts with label Food Insecurity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Insecurity. Show all posts
Saturday, November 8, 2025
This is how clueless the right wing is in America
Monday, April 7, 2014
Feeding the rich while we bury the poor
There were two reports in the past couple of weeks that have really stood out for me:
It also reminded me of this from a recent article from Thomas Frank, of What's the Matter with Kansas? fame:
“Inequality” is the most basic issue of them all, the very reason for liberalism’s existence. It is about who we are and how we live. Virtually every other liberal cause pales by comparison. This is the World War II of political subjects, and if we are going to win it must be a people’s war...."
Who we are and how we live...from his pen to the Liberal Gods' ears.
Peace,
emaycee
- In a big surprise, corporate profits rose to an all-time high of almost $1.7 trillion (that number looks like this: $1,700,000,000,000) in 2013. In another big surprise, despite a 25% increase in productivity, wages are growing at the slowest pace since the 1960s.
- Over 50 million Americans, or 18.9% of us, were food insecure last year.
It also reminded me of this from a recent article from Thomas Frank, of What's the Matter with Kansas? fame:
“Inequality” is the most basic issue of them all, the very reason for liberalism’s existence. It is about who we are and how we live. Virtually every other liberal cause pales by comparison. This is the World War II of political subjects, and if we are going to win it must be a people’s war...."
Who we are and how we live...from his pen to the Liberal Gods' ears.
Peace,
emaycee
Saturday, February 22, 2014
An obscenity
"Hunger is not a problem. It is an obscenity."--Anne Frank
The excerpt in this post by Digby shows the best and worst that is America. The hungry mother forgoing eating so that her children could have more, her son saying he was full so that his mother could have some of the food that was on his plate--these are the best. The worst...well when one in five Americans has been food insecure in the past year in the richest nation on the face of the earth, when we read of a family going hungry...it is an abomination.
While it's correct to point a finger at the callousness of republicans, many of whom couldn't care less that Americans are going hungry or think it's their own damn fault (never mind the utter void of moral leadership in corporate America or the Pyramind Scheme that is Wall Street), the Democrats share the blame. Scenes of hungry families like those noted above are what Bill Clinton's disastrous welfare reform has wrought; the ninety dollars a month that 850,000 American familes won't have for food thanks to Debbie Stabenow's Farm Bill; the President's bowing to the Gods of Austerity rather than looking out for the best interests of the working class men and women on whose backs this country is carried.
Anne Frank was a teenager. It's quite amazing how much better she understood the scourge that is hunger than do our so-called leaders in our nation's capital.
Peace,
emaycee
The excerpt in this post by Digby shows the best and worst that is America. The hungry mother forgoing eating so that her children could have more, her son saying he was full so that his mother could have some of the food that was on his plate--these are the best. The worst...well when one in five Americans has been food insecure in the past year in the richest nation on the face of the earth, when we read of a family going hungry...it is an abomination.
While it's correct to point a finger at the callousness of republicans, many of whom couldn't care less that Americans are going hungry or think it's their own damn fault (never mind the utter void of moral leadership in corporate America or the Pyramind Scheme that is Wall Street), the Democrats share the blame. Scenes of hungry families like those noted above are what Bill Clinton's disastrous welfare reform has wrought; the ninety dollars a month that 850,000 American familes won't have for food thanks to Debbie Stabenow's Farm Bill; the President's bowing to the Gods of Austerity rather than looking out for the best interests of the working class men and women on whose backs this country is carried.
Anne Frank was a teenager. It's quite amazing how much better she understood the scourge that is hunger than do our so-called leaders in our nation's capital.
Peace,
emaycee
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