Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Christine Romans reports for Lou Dobbs Tonight that more than 35 million Americans were struggling with hunger until the USDA relabeled the tracking category “low food security.” Thus, close to 12% of Americans now live with “food insecurity” issues. The report is unclear on whether or not more than a tenth of the country is still having problems with hunger.
In addition to the name change, however, the Bush administration also has plans to cut in half the number of Americans living with “low food security” by 2010. Considering that poverty and food insecurity levels have risen throughout Bush’s presidency, we assume the administration expects the bulk of the plan to kick in over the latter two years.
Lou Dobbs summed up the situation better than one would think possible: “That is disgusting…These are just abject idiots.”
Elsewhere you may read that they have also made interference with the food supply or delivery of food a terrorist activity, rather than just a criminal act. The specific idea was supposedly to stop activists (such as PETA) from interfering with testing of new (perhaps GM) foods on animals. But, the way the Bush people do things is to start off on A and then jump to Q before you realize there was a connection. Here they’re saying poor folks have ‘low food security’. Therefore, any interference in their food supply could only be done by a terrorist. But, consider how many places around the globe we get our foodstuffs. Just about anybody sneezing in a garden anywhere in the world and next thing ya know they’re an enemy combatant in Gitmo. What if truckers want to strike?
These guys are creative with their legislation and very very scary.
Next, instead of 50 million uninsured American, they’ll say there’s 50 million Americans with “low health coverage security”…and POOF! NO HEALTH INSURANCE CRISIS! The “Ministry of Propoganda” working overtime. It’s just like Goebbel’s Ministry of Propoganda, or Communist Russia’s controlled media. Absolutely unbelievable!
We have a War Crimes trial going on in Germany as we speak, in which an American General Janet Karpinski is the star witness against Rumsfeld. Is this the top story in the news? I just talked to a guy today, who doesn’t even know this is going on. If the corporate media doesn’t cover it, it isn’t going on. That’s why the U.S. is a laughingstock to the rest of the world…they know what’s going on and we don’t! The ministry of propoganda ends at our borders…it doesn’t mean the rest of the world doesn’t know what’s going on.
There’s an insurgency in Iraq, because they aren’t watching CNN.
…just assume, though, Lou Dobbs gets a pass on my anti-CNN comments. Did the Republican Noise machine start smearing him yet???
We are living in the most poorly written novel in world history.
WE ARE LIVING IN IT!
Ed Wood would have outrightly rejected this idea, and laughed until he thought he was going to die!
H. G. Wells would have blown his brains out, just to have THOUGHT up an idea like this!
George Orwell could not have even tried to think of something so stupid!
BUT WE ARE LIVING IT!
These people are KILLING US with words!
How much more, America!
Isn’t Lou Dobbs a lovely old Santa. Hat tip to Lou Dobbs.
This is part of I43’s “The Legacy of Lies” . . . . . I43 want you to think he won the war on hunger … since he lost all his’s other wars . . .
I= illegitimate
Maybe McDonald’s can “manufacture” hamburgers and sell them to people with “low food security” who had no job security because they lived in a “right to work” state!
Have I said today HOW MUCH I HATE THESE PEOPLE!
~Mike Malloy
reprehensible no matter what?
what if they’re “illegal aliens?”
euros fuera de Anahuac!
OT,..
The bu$$hco White House welcomes Trent Lott back into a senatorial leadership position with the Rethug Party.
Trent Lott the racist – back in power at the American Fascist Party.
Virtual Chicano #8
What does that last line mean in english?
Do you know anybody personally, who is suffering from low food security? Oh fuck it! HUNGER!
“Accidental delivery of ordnance equipement” = Bombing the wrong target.
Anyone introducing new and unusual phrases about things the government has some responsibility for… usually has an agenda for hiding a problem.