In NYC, every day, nearly 1.5 million people face going hungry.

[Stinky The Clown]

[phasma ex machina]

1. Redistributing bankster billions to the people is a good way to "reconnect" with voters. nt

[madinmaryland]

2. 10% of the population of NYC? I imagine it is similar in most large cities,

and not so large cities, and even in some rural area of the country, if not even higher (Detroit?). It is a disgrace that a country with the vast wealth it has, cannot help the people that need it the most and are the most afraid to ask for it.

Hello from Harrisonburg, VA. What you doing up at this time of night, Stinky?

[Luminous Animal]

3. The nice thing about travelling to Europe? Few people starving on the streets...

The depressing thing about coming home. Lots of people starving on the streets. And yes, even in San Francisco which has constantly been rated in the top 10 of meanest cities in the U.S.

[JI7]

the numbers probably include more hwo are not out in the streets

[JI7]

9. the numbers probably include more hwo are not out in the streets

[SoCalNative]

4. Just imagine

what kind of difference NutMeg's $140 million could have made.

[Catherina]

5. No time to worry about them, we need money for war!

Less jobs, more war.

[Beartracks]

6. Starving? Jobless? Hey, serfs -- join the military!

Oh, wait... that would be like increasing the government payroll, wouldn't it? What a quandary...

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[readmoreoften]

7. Your subject line gives new meaning to "eat shit and die."

Exchange your life for MREs!

[Urban Prairie]

8. Happened to my wife and I for the first time in our lives a year ago

We went about two months with very little and then no food, after paying for utility bills that we were months behind on, after I was released from a two week hospital stay and then spent another two weeks recovering from the surgery in a nursing home. The county DHS would not help us since we needed to have made five payments on our utility bills over the past year to qualify for assistance, and we had only made four during the year. As a result, we were flat broke at the time and had no transportation, as my old truck had broke down with transmission problems, soon after I came home to the small condo that we are renting.

Our neighbor eventually came to the rescue with some non-perishable canned goods and a frozen turkey from her church group. We did not know about it beforehand, and we were surprised and very grateful for the help when we most needed it. I know that what we dealt with pales in comparison to what many families go through for months, if not years in the US, but we did get a small "taste" of what the truly poor in the US endure each and every day, and it is humbling and scary.

How can a country like this that borrows and spends billions upon billions of not really assets or funds but MORE red ink and electronic vapor in the liability columns of spreadsheets for "defense" and the "war on terror" permit millions to go hungry and tens if not hundreds of thousands being homeless? What and whom are they really defending? Someday, perhaps as soon as the next decade, if this continues, there may only be a very small portion of the country that will still have assets/property, and the rest (that still survives) will be starving, ill, desperate, and homeless. It is like paying the police (military) to search for the group (terrorists) that robbed your home and killed members of your family, meanwhile the fire department (government) lets arsonists (global corporations) burn it to the damned ground.