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My post has to do with the statements made about hunger in the US - I am amazed that anyone would say that there is true "hunger" in the US, true hunger meaning there is no access to services or ministries that would alleviate an actual physical hunger.
I have lived in Thailand for years, I have walked amongst poverty stricken people there in the slums of Klong Tuey and have walked down the streets of Vientienne, Laos, and in the eastern border towns between Thailand and Cambodia. I have walked in Myanmar, and have seen hungry kids asking for money for food (or for their weekly amounts they must give their handlers who are watching on the side)
I have walked in Egypt and had kids asking for "bahksheesh", kids who don't have homes and who only eat when a foreigner gives them money.
In these years I have been privileged to walk amongst such children, never have I seen a "fat" kid, a child who obviously and truly had enough to eat. Not like most all American kids I have seen, even in the most impoverished of American kids.
So don't say that there is true "hunger" here in America - there are services available, and failing that, there are ministries who will care for these kids. In other countries, there is nothing - no government, no services, no ministries.
These kids are truly "hungry".
Americans need to pull their heads out of their asses and see what is going on in the world, and not just think the sun rises and sets on them.
And I am an American.
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