Bill Moyers on Poverty, Food Banks & Rich Farmers on Government Dole

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on now---excellent. 25 Millon people in US going to food banks, our cotton with US taxpayer-subsidized dollars compete with Africa; farm subsidies for McMansions in TEXAS since '02, food banks don't have enough food in USm farmers getting subsidies when they don't have a disaster, making over $2 Million/year.

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1. rural aid designed to aid the farm lobby, not the family farmer struggling on the land

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3. Hunger in America and we've lost hop0e but very doable---we could quickly cut hunger in 1/2

Gov. spending on commodity payments to wealthy people---doing damage...

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4. Go, PBS, the people's TV!

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5. no one wants to see children go hungry. Small nos. of concerned citizens can make a big difference

This man of the cloth is interesting!

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9. Who was he?

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11. did not catch the good reverend's name but he was fantastic. Second time he was on Moyers

Will be on the PBS-Moyers website. I think the rev was on only 1-2 wks. ago.

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10. Solcitations for help for the hungry -- both $ collections and good collection have

increased a great deal, but not enough evidently to cover the INCREASE in the hungry/impoverished ---

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12. in the shadow of NYC suburban superabundance, the food pantry goes bare

Two choices: 1) they're super wealthy assholes who won't help their fellow men and women with a bag of groceries every week; or 2) is not well with the super wealthy---that explains BushCo bailing them out with Chinese $$$.

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2. In MA, PBS is showing "Buying the War" on Bill Moyers journal

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It is a money raising week too... maybe that's why?

BUYING THE WAR: Watch the Show
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

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6. if it's a money raising week, let's raise money for Bill Moyers! The man has an outstanding educa-

tional show.

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Farm subsidies to wealthy people who have

never farmed their land. But no money to struggling farmers who really need help...

I love Bill Moyers, and this was an exceptionally good report.

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8. Been watching it ----

Didn't see the whole thing --- tuned in late ---

It raised more questions than they attempted to answer ---
Granted Democrats aren't either ending the scandalous subsidies . . .
and they also seem to be way behind in increasing aid for the hungry ---
Didn't they used to send "surplus" food to the foodbanks?

And, at the end, I think the Rev. said 35 million in need ???

Who was the Rev., btw . . . ??

Hope some Fundies were watching cause he delivered an interesting political msg to them, IMO.

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13. very interesting, indeed. Moyers' website will have the rev's name

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14. we duped KICK

lots of reminders for Moyers works for me