[Vision2020] Say What?

[deb]

BINGO! Thanks, Keely. We never seem to notice that the "bare minimum" food-stuffs we provide for the poor actually KILL THEM. Native American populations have a much higher rate of diabetes, heart disease, and respiratory ailments because of the "subsistance" foods provided them through the "largesse" of the government. people in poverty have access only to high fat, high sugar, processed sinthesized food-like substances. Food stamps will get you fresh food if you have access to it. Many neighborhoods in poverty areas have no access to grocery store---7-11 is their "grocery". If you are living in a car, with no way to cook food, you can't get that very inexpensive already cooked roast chicken from Winco on your food stamps. You can, however, buy potato chips and candy...you can't buy vitamin supplements, but you can buy seeds to plant food---where you can plant them? Hmmmmm....
Just sayin'
Debi R-S
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: keely emerinemix 
  To: Tom Hansen ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?


  Yes, Sean, that's right -- beans and rice (and lentils and peas and other legumes and grains) will keep you from literally dying from starvation.  

  (Good boy; here's a delicious marrow-filled bone . . . now please go away.  Your callousness and indifference is quite unappealing).

  One thing the rice-and-beans diet WILL do, besides keeping you from wasting away from hunger, however, is make you fat.  It will drain you of energy, ensure that your weight skyrockets, and will introduce you to the fun world of diabetes and, with it, possible kidney failure, blindness, amputation and a host of other complications.  But that's OK, because then you can be unable to go to the doctor -- because, remember, you're too poor to eat anything other than starches -- until you show up at the ER with life-threatening complications from the otherwise largely-avoidable Type 2 diabetes you were unable to manage carefully owing to that very lack of medical care.  You'll likely die up to 20 years sooner than you would've, but your kids, already miserably overweight and not at all aware of how to eat properly, and still suffering from the poor-person's lack of medical care, will take up the slack and eventually make THEIR way to the emergency room.  It'll be a nice way to create memories, but you and your conservative, Religious Right friends will gripe about the cost of their too-late health care and do whatever you can to prevent this country from both feeding poor people and working to eliminate hunger, as well as developing a system of medical care that will extend the lives of millions and millions of people.

  One point:  If you make a few million bucks a year with this blather, Sean, it's really very sad that your economically not-well-off friends, whose habits you seem to know well, are reduced to a cheap diet like that.  Could you spare a few bucks to augment their diet?  It would be the friendly thing to do . . . unless there really aren't "friends of (yours)" in such a situation.  Still, you look could look further . . . 

  Keely




  > From: thansen at moscow.com
  > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:27:50 -0700
  > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
  > Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
  > 
  > "I don't believe people are going to bed hungry. For, instance I have friends of mine who eat rice and beans all the time. Beans protein, rice. Inexpensive. You can make a big pot of this for a week for negligible amounts of money and you can feed your whole family.
  > 
  > Look, you should have vegetables and fruit in there as well, but if you need to survive you can survive off it. It's not ideal but you could get some cheap meat and throw in there as well for protein. There are ways to live really, really cheaply."
  > 
  > - Fox News' Sean Hannity (April 24, 2012) whose annual income exceeds $9 million.
  > 
  > http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/sean-hannitys-poor-friends-eat-rice-and-beans.html?mid=rss
  > 
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  > 
  > Seeya round town, Moscow.
  > 
  > Tom Hansen
  > Moscow, Idaho
  > 
  > "If not us, who?
  > If not now, when?"
  > 
  > - Unknown
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