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Originally Posted by host
....and why would you compare the hunger problem in the US to the situations in third world countries such as Thailand, with 1/5 of per capita income of the US, and Egypt, with less than 1/10 of US per capita income?
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You've pointed out another example of government doublespeak. It's not hunger. It's just low food security. And the janitor is really a custodial systems engineer. And a 13 cent nut becomes a $100 hexiform rotatable surface compression unit.
You can make up any word you want for hunger but it's still hunger. Note I said hunger, not starvation. Sure, there are few, if any, people in America that are truly starving. Sure, there are many countries where the people are a whole lot hungrier than we are. But comparing the USA to egypt and saying "See? Look! We're not as bad as them so things are great" is disingenuous. It's rather like coming home to mom and dad with a D on your report card and saying "Yeah, but this other kid got an F, so compared to him I'm awesome and therefore don't need to do anything to improve!" It simply doesn't fly.
There are certainly organizations that you can turn to for help if you can't afford to buy food - - - but why should we think it's acceptable that so many Americans *have* to turn to those organizations. If the citizens in the richest country on earth can't afford to buy even cheap, crappy food for themselves, while the government drops BILLIONS into a front of the "war on terr" that in fact has nothing to do with the fictitious war on terror, what does that say about our priorities?