Heartless bastard post of the week: poverty expert thinks hungry are faking it

[Generic Other]

NPR: Record Number Of U.S. Households Face Hunger

The number of Americans who struggled to get enough food last year remained at a record high, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

More than 50 million Americans lived in households that had a hard time getting enough to eat at least at some point during 2009. That includes 17 million children, and at least a half-million of those children faced the direst conditions. They had inadequate diets, or even missed meals, because their families didn't have enough money for food.

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"They clearly exaggerate these numbers for political effect," says Robert Rector, a poverty expert with the Heritage Foundation.

Rector says many of the people whom the government says are facing hunger might in fact have only missed one meal during the course of the year. And he says the vast majority of those considered "food insecure" -- as the government puts it -- barely had to cut back at all.

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http://www.npr.org/2010/11/15/131328286/record-number-of-u-s-households-face-hunger

I curse this man to know hunger.

[Quantess]

1. That link doesn't go to the article.

Anyway, who designated him a "poverty expert"?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. The Heritage Foundation, of course.

'Anyway, who designated him a "poverty expert"?'

[Mr Generic Other]

8. the heritage foundation is expert at creating poverty.

why do you question their expertise?

[Jackpine Radical]

11. I don't. In that respect, I acknowledge their expertise.

[Mr Generic Other]

13. i think that poverty is in their motto.

proudly creating poverty in america since 1977.

[Jackpine Radical]

32. While the World Bank provides that service

for the rest of the world.

[Mr Generic Other]

35. you sure got that right.

[nosmokes]

14. they have a heritage of doing just that. n/t

[elocs]

21. What exactly are the qualifications to be a poverty expert?

One definitely should be that you have lived in poverty, experience poverty.

[gmoney]

4. "A poverty expert at the Heritage Foundation"

there's an oxymoron if I ever heard one

[TomClash]

7. Nope just a regular old moron

Nothin Oxy about it. :-)

[Generic Other]

6. Think I got it now. thanks!

Self-appointed poverty expert from Heritage Foundation. unfortunately will be influencing what programs get cut in the next Congress!

[hobbit709]

2. What exactly is a "poverty expert"?

And if he works for the Heritage Foundation what does he know about poverty or anything else?

[JI7]

5. Heritage foundation is a joke

[Generic Other]

9. This joker will have more influence with the new GOP Congress critters

Forewarned is forearmed! He's a creep.


Robert Rector is a leading national authority on poverty, the U.S.welfare system and immigration and is a Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow.

Dubbed the "intellectual godfather" of welfare reform by National Review Editor Rich Lowry, Rector concentrates on a range of issues relating to welfare reform, family breakdown and America’s various social ills.

Rector played a major role in crafting the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation, which, for the first time, required recipients to work or get job training for their benefits.

http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/r/robert-rector

[Zoeisright]

10. Gee, Robert Rectum (sic), perhaps you should experience poverty before

you label yourself a 'poverty expert'. In fact, it would be a good idea to have you thrown out of your house and lose all of your money so you could experience poverty and hunger yourself. That would probably be the only way you'd develop a soul.

[Quantess]

12. Thanks for fixing the link.

those using food stamps here are better dressed than they used to be.
Sure, that's because the sweatshops overseas have driven the price of clothing way down, and you can easily find good clothes in thrift shops. Food, however, is expensive.

[CoffeeCat]

15. There's a poverty expert at Heritage Foundation???

Why on Earth would an expert on poverty work for the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation, an organization
that views anyone who is poor or hungry as a sick, worthless object?

And why would the Heritage Foundation even bother to employ a poverty expert--someone who is an advocate
for those who are poor and hungry--when clearly the Foundation detests such weakness.

The answer is--that is no poverty expert. Also, The Heritage Foundation is full of shit.

Relying on the Heritage Foundation for information on poverty, is like relying on Charles Manson for child-care advice.

We cannot and should not go there.

[Generic Other]

17. I fear he's already influenced policy under Clinton and Bush

sounds like he's planning a comeback.

[sfwriter]

18. The same way an exterminator is an expert on insects...

...with much the same intention I'm afraid.

[Generic Other]

20. excellent analogy

If this guy has his way -- cut school lunch program and limit foodstamps -- many more will experience the real hunger problem he is so certain is exaggerated today. What a creepy heartless man to say such things in such hard times.

[DBoon]

25. "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

We are back to Victorian England

[bullwinkle428]

16. When this guy goes to hell, I hope he's forced to work

as Satan's personal toilet cleaner, and his only tool is his own toothbrush.

[lonestarnot]

19. Guess someone put something on his dogturd breakfast that made it taste bad.

What a lying dirtbag of a pig.

[burnsei sensei]

22. If he works for the Heritage Foundation,

then he has no authority to speak about poverty.
He is no expert.
He is a detractor from expert research. Nothing more.

[RKP5637]

23. Heritage Foundation = Horrific Effortless Redundant Ignoramuses Taking All Good Efforts

From Our Universe Now Damned Always Toward Ignorance Over Niceness

[brentspeak]

24. Rector has made a career out of being a corporate-funded "expert" on people he knows nothing about

[guitar man]

26. It would be true poetic justice

If some starving people killed this bastard and ate him! :evilgrin:

[Quantess]

28. I read that during a period of severe food shortages in Russia,

occasionally people resorted to cannibalism. The thighs and buttocks being the meatiest parts.

[Generic Other]

29. Couldn't I just have a Happy Meal instead?

I bet Rector would read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and find it a grand plan.

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[AsahinaKimi]

30. Worthy of the

Baka yaro award. If there isn't one, I will create it..

[Marr]

31. "Poverty expert" and "Heritage Foundation" are mutually exclusive terms.

[Generic Other]

33. poverty of ideas maybe

definitely.

[marmar]

34. "Poverty expert" from the Heritage Foundation?

Yeah, expert in making sure lots of people are poor.