Bush's 'Culture of Life' - More Babies, Young Kids Going Hungry in US

[Sapphire Blue]

"Hunger Has Many Faces"

And the King shall answer and say unto them, `Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.' - Matthew 25: 40

More Babies, Young Kids Going Hungry in US

Increasing numbers of young American children are showing signs of serious malnourishment, fueled by a greater prevalence of hunger in the United States, while, paradoxically, two-thirds of the US population is either overweight or obese.

In 2003, 11.2 percent of families in the United States experienced hunger, compared with 10.1 percent in 1999, according to most recent official figures, released on National Hunger Awareness Day held this year on Tuesday, June 7.

Some pediatricians worry that cuts in welfare aid proposed in President George W. Bush's 2006 budget will only exacerbate the situation. By contrast Bush plans to keep tax cuts for more affluent sectors of the population, they note.

In the working class port city of Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Maureen Black, a pediatrician, sees numbers of underweight babies in her clinic specialized in infant malnutrition located in one of the poorer areas.

Continued @ http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0612-05.htm

America's Second Harvest: http://www.secondharvest.org/

[charlyvi]

1. He just cares about you BEFORE you're born.

After that, let the market decide. You're on your own.

[Sapphire Blue]

2. If Bush cared about unborn children, he would push for fully funding

... the very programs that benefit them... Medicaid, food stamps, low-income housing, affordable health care, ad infinitum. The idea that Bush & the RW care about a child before he or she is born is a fallacy that needs to be addressed... if they cared, they would literally put their money where there mouths are.

[oscar111]

3. 1O% jump in hunger, bush first term: due to his cuts

The article, if it is the same one i read from AFP, shows a ten percent hike in usa hunger during bush's first four years.

bush has been cutting food stamp funds... the article did not touch on that exactly with numbers, but i assume that those cuts were most of the cause. General poverty increase would be the next largest cause.

coming financial year, bush cuts to f. s. will hike the number of hungry from 12 to 13 million individuals, one article said. What a loser bush is. {note that the unit of measure in this stat is individuals, while the OP measure is families, an inferior stat.. since "family" is an unclear no. of individuals}.

[oscar111]

4. 4% of US goes hungry - why any nation want to copy that? Norway better

model to copy, and they all can see Norway as easily as they can see us.

Neocons are out to lunch if they think we are "the most admired nation". UN rates Norway as best quality of life nation. 25 nations live longer than we do.

four percent of the usa goes hungry.
while our collective wealth is 1O9 Trillion.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/accessible/l5.htm

see bottom line on that page, and also see Demopedia page capital... for more.
demopedia link, top buttons of forum page or homepage here.

[Sapphire Blue]

7. The apathy for the poor & hungry hurts my soul

This seems to be such a materialistic society, people concerned with not only keeping up with the Jonses, but passing them by at great haste with a one-fingered salute... never stopping to care if the Joneses need a helping hand... never stopping to care if the Jones' children had breakfast this morning, dinner this evening, whether the Jonses were able to pay their heating bill during the dead of a freezing winter, whether their children have adequate shoes, adequate coats... me first and damn the rest.

Call me a bleeding heart liberal... I am... my heart bleeds, my soul weeps. I am my brother's keeper.

[Sapphire Blue]

5. More on Bush's sadistic cuts...

Programs that target low-income families to provide food assistance to pregnant women, infants and young children, programs for early childhood education and child care, and home energy and rental assistance would all be subject to substantial cuts by 2010. These cuts could significantly reduce the number of low-income people who are served by these programs. According to figures provided by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, by 2010 about 670,000 fewer women, infants and children would be served under the Special Supplemental Nutrition program for women, infants and children; 300,000 fewer children in low-income working families would be provided child care; 370,000 fewer families and elderly and disabled individuals would receive rental assistance and vouchers; and nearly 120,000 fewer children would be served through Head Start.

http://www.ilwu.org/dispatcher/2005/02/2005-02-washrpt.cfm

The WIC program, which subsidizes the diets of low-income pregnant women and nursing mothers -- a major preventative against low-weight babies -- would be cut by $658 million, enough to reduce coverage in 2010 by 660,000 women. Head Start funds would be reduced $3.3 billion over five years, with 118,000 fewer youngsters enrolled in 2010

http://bowman.typepad.com/cubowman/2005/02/david_broder_on.html

State Child Health Insurance Plus: Coverage for Embryos, Not Women
The Administration issued a regulation extending coverage under the State Child Health Insurance Plus (SCHIP) to "unborn children," so coverage extends from "conception up to age 19." For the first time, the United States is recognizing that a zygote, embryo, or fetus is a "person" eligible for government aid. Soon after this regulation was issued on October 2, 2002, the Bush administration withdrew its support for bipartisan legislation that added pregnant women to SCHIP, arguing that it was no longer needed since coverage was being provided directly to the fetus. As a result, pregnant women are not guaranteed the health care they need. Treatment for women who are hemorrhaging during birth, for example, is not covered by the regulation.

http://www.iwhc.org/resources/bushsotherwar/domestic.cfm

The Number of Americans Food Insecure and Hungry is Rising:

In 2001, the number of Americans who were food insecure, or hungry or at risk of hunger, was 33.6 million, a rise over 2000, when 33.2 million Americans were food insecure. The number of individuals who are suffering from hunger rose from 8.5 million in 2000 to 9 million in 2001. 4

The number of food insecure households with children has also risen since 2000 by 10,000 to 6.18 million. 5

The Number of People Seeking Emergency Food Assistance is Rising:

America's Second Harvest's Hunger in America 2001 report found that 23.3 million people sought and received emergency hunger relief from our network of charities in 2001. The study also found that between 1997 and 2001, demand for emergency food assistance through the America's Second Harvest network has risen 9% since 1997. 6 23 million people receiving emergency food assistance is equivalent to the combined populations of the 10 largest U.S. cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas, and Detroit. 7

A survey of 55 Catholic Charities agencies found that in anticipation of the busy winter holidays, 85 percent are expecting an increase in people seeking emergency financial assistance, 66 percent are expecting greater need for food, and 71 percent are anticipating a shortage this holiday season in financial donations. 8

A survey of America's Second Harvest affiliates in late 2001 and early 2002 found that 86% had seen an increase in requests for food assistance during the past year. 9

In U.S cities across the nation, hunger and demand for emergency food assistance is rising:

Continued @ http://secondharvest.org/site_content.asp?s=59.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. When bush was Tx Gov he was told that 1 in 5 children went to bed

hungry in Tx. I think that was the statistic. He responded that "Wouldn't the Gov. know if kids were going hungry under his watch" or something to that effect. Apparently not! He was also questioned in Sept of 2000 about the impending deficit that TX was facing. His reply was this, "I hope not the be there to deal with it, I am seeking a higher office." Translation= I am fixing to screw the whole of America like I did Texas. Bush rode into office in Texas with the largest surplus in our state's history and he gave it away to his campaign contributors and the wealthy in this state!

[Sapphire Blue]

8. He's consistent at inflicting pain & not admitting culpability, isnt he?

Consistent at turning a suplus into a record deficit, too.

Ever notice how he typically refers to himself in the third person... 'the governor', 'the president'? I wonder if that's typical sociopath/psychopath behavior?

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. The shoe seems to fit.

I am reminded of what I read concerning something Poppy Bush's Dad told his offspring. That being...that the those less fortunate then themselves were to be disdained. Is it any wonder that frat boy Jr thinks that the poor are poor because they are lazy? Well that is, afterall, typical repuke think.

[Sapphire Blue]

11. How on earth can one look into the eyes of a hungry child & feel disdain?

How is it possible to be so bloody evil?


On Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who might have been pope...

John Paul II made him a cardinal together with the last group of bishops named to the honor, in February of 2001. On that occasion, Bergoglio distinguished himself by his reserve among his many more festive colleagues. Hundreds of Argentinians had begun fundraising efforts to fly to Rome to pay homage to the new man with the red hat. But Bergoglio stopped them. He ordered them to remain in Argentina and distribute the money they had raised to the poor. In Rome, he celebrated his new honor nearly alone - and with Lenten austerity.

<snip>

Yet he´s not the type to compromise himself for the public. Every time he speaks, instead, he tries to shake people up and surprise them. In the middle of November, he did not give a learned homily on social justice to the people of Argentina reduced by hunger - he told them to return to the humble teachings of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. "This," he explained, "is the way of Jesus." And as soon as one follows this way seriously, he understands that "to trample upon the dignity of a woman, a man, a child, an elderly person, is a grave sin that cries out to heaven," and he decides not to do it any more.

http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=6893&eng=y

Bush's policies are grave sins that cry out to heaven. And Ratzinger is pope... :cry:

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. How is possible to be so bloody evil?

Well bush** said in Dec of 2001 that he and laura "had a fabulous year" bush** was born of evil so easy for him I am guessing.

[Sapphire Blue]

13. Born of evil is right... pure evil in that lineage.

[zann725]

9. Of course. They've cut food stamps, welfare, school meals...and, and, and

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