DISQUS

MaudGonne · 1 year ago

TUESDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Children who live with adult smokers are more likely to be underfed and undernourished, a new study finds. The same is true for adult members of smoking households, but children feel the impact the most, said study author Dr. Michael Weitzman, chairman of pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. "We know that there are long-term consequences of food insecurity for children. They are more likely to do poorly in school, to have iron deficiency and anemia, and to have behavioral and social problems," Weitzman said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

That anyone would smoke cigarettes in a confined space with children is morally reprehensible - but to not buy food for children so as to buy cigarettes should be a crime. There are scumbags among us. Unfortunetly we have to drag the genetically inferior along with us. In prehistoric times these people would not have survived.

MaudGonne · 1 year ago

The old emphasis on food security was undoubtedly costly, and often wasteful. But the redundancies it created also had tremendous value when things went wrong. And one sure thing about a system as complex as agriculture is that things will go wrong, often with devastating consequences. If the just-in-time system for producing cars runs into a hitch and the supply of cars shrinks for a while, people can easily adapt. When the same happens with food, people go hungry or even starve. That doesn’t mean that we need to embrace price controls or collective farms, and there are sensible market reforms, like doing away with import tariffs, that would make developing-country consumers better off. But a few weeks ago Bill Clinton, no enemy of market reform, got it right when he said that we should help countries achieve “maximum agricultural self-sufficiency.” Instead of a more efficient system, we should be trying to build a more reliable one.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/11...

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

When 5% of the population owns 60% of the wealth poverty and hunger are invevitible.

Capitalism, like so many things in nature, may be viewed as a bell-shaped curve. There is a maxium peak, at which society benefits the most - it is not driven by free markets, nor unfettered rights of exploitation. It is attained by a balance between forces, one in which regulation and profit allow society to extract the greatest potential from society - a maximum of productivity and reward, etc. We are far from it. We exist on the downside of the curve, in an outlying region that benefits the rich who maintain themselves through lies and threats and fear.

We are spending $1 billion every few weeks in Iraq to support war profiteering whores. And where are the Dems? They are bringing up the Clinton administration, war hawks and all. If there is change on the horizon it certainly is not evident.

In America liars and whores are rewarded, those who work hard and donate their time and do what is right - they are the ones who are left in the dirt.

Patrick_Bateman · 1 year ago

Who said we have no hungry kids in this country? Was it Phil "whiner" Gramm?

He said we have no hungry kids becasue so many kids are obese.

I'm sure someone reminded Phil that food low in nutrition and most affordable tend to be basically hollow calories only, like chips, sugar drinks etc..

Nutrional foods such as raw fruits and veggies are more expensive.

But I betcha Mr. Smarty-Pants knew this already before blowing off.

mgardener · 1 year ago

so we save every child so some of them can starve?

They are so interested in every fetus until they are born, and then they do not give a damn.

Let me para phrase "Make Republicanism so small you can drown it in a bath tub". My new motto.

zzpat · 1 year ago

I'm not convinced they don't give a damn about children after they're born. If your child is gay, they'll hate him.

It's something.

ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago

Feeding starving American children is Communism. We need all our tax dollars to give welfare to obscenely wealthy CEOs, which is Capitalism. The Conservatives say so, so it must be true.

SCLiberal · 1 year ago

I love your posts. Feel the same way.

ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago

Gawrshk, I have a fan!

Webster · 1 year ago

Someone should send those figures to the "President/Prophet" of the Mormon Church and ask him if $20 million+ might have helped some of those children.

Nah. That would mean behaving like Christ.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

exactly! how many children could that money have fed in California? how many could have had winter coats and school supplies?

I seem to recall him feeding many with loaves and fishes..........Jesus was a communist and community organizer.

zzpat · 1 year ago

Imagine a world where our local churches spent their money on the poor instead of hate campaigns against gays.

Christ isn't part of Christian anymore. He'd disown the churches that bear his name.

steve · 1 year ago

And yet PETA and the Humane Society of the United States are advocating for chickens.