By Kenneth J. Theisen, 11/16/06
YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
The Bush administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has officially eliminated 11 million hungry Americans. No, God has not imparted the secret of multiplying the “fishes and the loaves” to his good friend, George W. Instead the USDA will no longer use the word “hunger” when referring to people who do not have enough to eat. Who says the Bush regime does not come up with creative solutions to large problems? From now on the USDA will refer to “people formerly known as hungry” as people with “very low food security.”
During the last five years of the Bush regime the number of hungry
(I mean people with very low food security) people in the U.S. has
increased. According to the USDA, 35 million people “could not put food
on the table at least part of last year.” Eleven million of these
people reported being hungry do to the inability to afford food.
But do not worry. According to Forbes magazine between 2005 and
2006, the four hundred richest billionaires increased their collective
wealth by $120 billion, to have a total of $1.25 trillion. Most of
this wealth was due to Bush tax cuts and other favorable policies of
the Bush regime. Just one relevant example – in 2005, the USDA gave out
$23 billion in farm subsidies, with most of the money going to the
corporate farmers. I am sure the 35 million Americans who have trouble
putting food on the table appreciate this.