There is no starvation in the United States

[MosesPresley]

This thread is unbelievable. If there aren't starving people in America, who are all of those people constantly begging in the streets? Who are those unwashed people standing outside the burger joints begging for spare change so that they can get a meal?

You apolytoners are so out of touch with reality. This thread sickens me. I'm outta here.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by MosesPresley
This thread is unbelievable. If there aren't starving people in America, who are all of those people constantly begging in the streets? Who are those unwashed people standing outside the burger joints begging for spare change so that they can get a meal?

You apolytoners are so out of touch with reality. This thread sickens me. I'm outta here.

No one here has denied that there is poverty, merely that starvation isn't on the top 100 list of problems in the U.S. Most of the spare change beggars I see can be seen buying alchohol with their proceeds every night, or drugs in some cases. Exactly what sort of reality do you live in? Are your contrary experiences personal or second hand? Do you have any statistics to back up your opinions?

[Firelad]

When was the last time people died of hunger in the US? You know, first you start getting really thin, looking like a walking skeleton, your sight begins to go, hair falls, somewhere around there your stomach begins to inflate, you become totally apathetic and too weak to move anyway, your bones start to break from the slightest pressure and then you die after a while of pain which is so strong you lose feeling. Seen beggars like these?

[Jac de Molay]

Originally posted by MosesPresley
This thread is unbelievable. If there aren't starving people in America, who are all of those people constantly begging in the streets? Who are those unwashed people standing outside the burger joints begging for spare change so that they can get a meal?

You apolytoners are so out of touch with reality. This thread sickens me. I'm outta here.

There's countless alternatives for these people to turn to, so they're not starving. There's Salvation army, church social services, soup kitchens...and that doesn't even include government help from state and federal.

There begging in the streets is more choice than anything.

[Adam Smith]

Originally posted by MosesPresley
This thread is unbelievable. If there aren't starving people in America, who are all of those people constantly begging in the streets? Who are those unwashed people standing outside the burger joints begging for spare change so that they can get a meal?

You apolytoners are so out of touch with reality. This thread sickens me. I'm outta here.

Many of them are mentally ill. The Supreme Court ruled in Lessard v. Schmidt that mentally ill people who are not an imminent danger to themselves or others could no longer be instituionalized against their will. That forced thousands of people out of institutions, where they received at least some minimal level of care, onto the streets, where they received nothing. Many of these people now receive no food, no medical care, no monitoring of their condition, and in fact, until recently, there was not even a requirement in most states that they even take their medication.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by MosesPresley
This thread is unbelievable. If there aren't starving people in America, who are all of those people constantly begging in the streets? Who are those unwashed people standing outside the burger joints begging for spare change so that they can get a meal?

You apolytoners are so out of touch with reality. This thread sickens me. I'm outta here.

all the beggers ive evr seen have been quite dirty, this is true, but most I ever see are also quite CHUBBY. Not exactly a symptom of starvation .

they usually beg for money NOT so they can get some food (they obtain this very easily, as others have said, thru soup kitchens, church programs, etc), BUT so they can get some booze or crack, which soup kitchens and churches dont readily hand out

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Kramerman
all the beggers ive evr seen have been quite dirty, this is true, but most I ever see are also quite CHUBBY. Not exactly a symptom of starvation .

Not me. I've only seen skinny beggers. I don't think chubby beggers do too well.

[Japher]

NOT FUNNY WEARS MY BANNING ROD!!

Is it a strap on

[Kramerman]

*ZAP!*
"you have been banned, you sweet thing you"

[Sava]

yeah I was stoned last night...

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


It depends on how big it is, and for how long.

Three square meals is a modern invention. Do you think early humans at 3 meals every day?

[Dis]

Originally posted by MosesPresley
This thread is unbelievable. If there aren't starving people in America, who are all of those people constantly begging in the streets? Who are those unwashed people standing outside the burger joints begging for spare change so that they can get a meal?

You apolytoners are so out of touch with reality. This thread sickens me. I'm outta here.

what do you think they use that money for?


I've offered many of them a burger at mcdonald's. they refuse. they want money not food.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Dissident


what do you think they use that money for?


I've offered many of them a burger at mcdonald's. they refuse. they want money not food.

Did you hand them a burger or did you offer to take them to McDonald's. I would go to McDonald's, but I might be suspicious of taking food from you. You might have done something to it.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Kidicious


Did you hand them a burger or did you offer to take them to McDonald's. I would go to McDonald's, but I might be suspicious of taking food from you. You might have done something to it.

What could he possibly do that is worse than what McDonald's has already done?

[Dis]

although maybe they were a vegetarian. I shouldn't make assumptions about them.

Just because they are homeless, doesn't mean they don't want to eat healthy.