1 in 6 Americans are hungry!

[CptTrips]

Hunger, true hunger isn't funny, at all.

First, I can always find some gallows humor in anything.  Even death and suffering.  Even my own.  But I admit I have a pretty dark sense of humor.

I agree with your other points.

I pick up one of those rotisserie chickens at the grocery store and a some veggies to steam in the microwave.  Drink water not cokes.  I can get 3 high quality meals out of that at ~ $2.60 a meal.  

You'll get nothing but crap at McD for $2.60.

I know some may think it cruel, but I think the best thing for America would be for a large percentage of the population to have experienced real, serious deprivation at some point in their lives.  It changes they way you think a lot.  It hardens you up.  It gets your mind focused.  It gives work and saving a whole new meaning.  It changes your view of value and waste.


Keep in mind, the greatest generation this country ever produced grew up with real deprivation or the constant threat of it.

,
Wab

[CptTrips]

It's after the first of the month and the crisis is over. All of the formerly hungry people are at Walmart loading up on tv dinners and ice cream.

When I was a poor, starving college student working my way thru school I learned 2 important lessons that helped change me from a young liberal, to an older conservative.

One of my jobs was for a retail department store.  My job was to manage the pool of flexible workers and match them up to available hours.  I learned that there was a ....certain segment of the pool who would only take 20 hrs a week because more interfere with their Government assistance. Stupidly, I'd tried to explain to these people I could get them as many hours as they needed.  I could even get them 1.5x overtime.  I was universally told to mind my business and give them their 20 hrs.

One of my other jobs was delivering pizza in a part of town that was NOT the green lawn suburbs.  We came to dread the first 4 days of the month as 95% of our deliveries were to the nearby Government subsidized housing project.  Not only did you expect to get robbed and killed at any moment, but the F'ers must have thought "Tipping" was a city in China.  I was always amazed at some of the TVs and stereos I'd see behind opened doors.  

,
Wab

  

[Getback]

When I was a poor, starving college student working my way thru school I learned 2 important lessons that helped change me from a young liberal, to an older conservative.

One of my jobs was for a retail department store.  My job was to manage the pool of flexible workers and match them up to available hours.  I learned that there was a ....certain segment of the pool who would only take 20 hrs a week because more interfere with their Government assistance. Stupidly, I'd tried to explain to these people I could get them as many hours as they needed.  I could even get them 1.5x overtime.  I was universally told to mind my business and give them their 20 hrs.

One of my other jobs was delivering pizza in a part of town that was NOT the green lawn suburbs.  We came to dread the first 4 days of the month as 95% of our deliveries were to the nearby Government subsidized housing project.  Not only did you expect to get robbed and killed at any moment, but the F'ers must have thought "Tipping" was a city in China.  I was always amazed at some of the TVs and stereos I'd see behind opened doors.  

,
Wab


I delivered Pizza to a project once only to see one guy shooting another and then ran past me with that big revolver.
  

[james]

I had something to post like the hungry americans should turn to P.E.T.A. (people eating tasty animals) until I saw phatzo's sig. 

[CAP1]

When I was a poor, starving college student working my way thru school I learned 2 important lessons that helped change me from a young liberal, to an older conservative.

One of my jobs was for a retail department store.  My job was to manage the pool of flexible workers and match them up to available hours.  I learned that there was a ....certain segment of the pool who would only take 20 hrs a week because more interfere with their Government assistance. Stupidly, I'd tried to explain to these people I could get them as many hours as they needed.  I could even get them 1.5x overtime.  I was universally told to mind my business and give them their 20 hrs.

One of my other jobs was delivering pizza in a part of town that was NOT the green lawn suburbs.  We came to dread the first 4 days of the month as 95% of our deliveries were to the nearby Government subsidized housing project.  Not only did you expect to get robbed and killed at any moment, but the F'ers must have thought "Tipping" was a city in China.  I was always amazed at some of the TVs and stereos I'd see behind opened doors.  

,
Wab

  

as soon as those people told me to mind my own business and give them their 20 hours.......THOSE would have been the people getting the most hours. till they got fired for not showing up anyway.

[DrDea]

 Feed the homeless to the hungry. 2 problems solved at once.

[grizz441]

Temple of the Dog ftw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjNjJR9jUGo

[CptTrips]

as soon as those people told me to mind my own business and give them their 20 hours.......THOSE would have been the people getting the most hours. till they got fired for not showing up anyway.

If I had my druthers....

But thats not the way it worked.  It was more like an internal temp agency.  They weren't obligated to take any hours.  They worked as many or few, when they wanted.

On the other hand, we weren't obligated to provide them any hours (or benefits).  That was useful in a cyclical retail enviroment.  It alows the company to trim capacity when needed without the hassle and legal risk of firings or layoffs.  We simply wouldn't have hours available that week.  Ask again next week.   

Wab

[ghi]

  below, some hungry people.. or stupid:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeNTMmltyc&feature=autoplay&list=PL59A79F5BDE6DC36F&index=18&playnext=2

[321BAR]

I wonder what they define "Struggles with Hunger" as?

read the rest of the billboard. its a sign about feeding the poorer people of america who cant get food.

[SD67]

I struggled with hunger myself last night...
It was a choice between the original recipe double or the Zinger one from KFC; I got both.

[Plazus]

Temple of the Dog ftw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjNjJR9jUGo

Their whole album is loaded with great songs. If you don't have it, check it out!

[grizz441]

read the rest of the billboard. its a sign about feeding the poorer people of america who cant get food.

Pass

[Jayhawk]

This is the crux of the issue.  Get outside of your bubble and look at true poverty in America(or elsewhere) and you won't find this funny any more.  Better yet, try living it for a time.    

Here's the issue I have with that, if you start taking every issue so seriously, you'll end up depressed.  I think it's healthy to laugh at serious issues (at the right time), for many, it's a way to cope with the stresses of a modern world.  Laughing at something doesn't mean you don't understand the issue or have a concern for it.

Done correctly, laughter is a very powerful thing.

[Getback]

Here's the issue I have with that, if you start taking every issue so seriously, you'll end up depressed.  I think it's healthy to laugh at serious issues (at the right time), for many, it's a way to cope with the stresses of a modern world.  Laughing at something doesn't mean you don't understand the issue or have a concern for it.

Done correctly, laughter is a very powerful thing.

People use laughter to cope with tragedy just as much as they do tears.

That was pretty funny stuff though. The weight loss website I used loved it.