Are the very wealthy paying their share?

[Thorn]

There are virtually no starving Americans, and if they were starving they would be easy to fight off.

Are you sheletered, blind, or something?

[KrazyHorse]

Are you an idiot?

[KrazyHorse]

The thought that starvation is afflicting any more than a tiny proportion of Americans is hilarious...

[Thorn]

Define starvation, and we'll discuss this.

But unreported starvation still is starvation, you know a tree falls in the woods it still makes a sound.

[KrazyHorse]

Do you have any sort of evidence that starvation affects any more than a tiny proportion of Americans?

[Thorn]

Yes, care to visit any soup kitchen any state? Plus a lot of people (foolishly) are too proud to ask for help so their families suffer. <--- those are usually the worst.

[KrazyHorse]

People eating in soup kitchens aren't starving, by ****ing definition

Nor are people getting food from food banks nor people getting food stamps.

[Thorn]

Ask them?

[Aeson]

Malnutrition would be a better term than starvation.

[Thorn]

I asked him to define it, starvation is usually when they die. Kind of like electrocution is different from electric shock.

[KrazyHorse]

The number of people with malnutrition depends on where you draw the line. Furthermore, 300$ a month from begging is more than enough to feed yourself (though obviously not enough to pay for a place to sleep).

The fact is that most of the people who profit from governmental redistribution schemes in the West are obscenely well-off by world standards. Those who support redistribution to these people in the US while there are others so much worse off are guilty of the most repugnant brand of chauvinism.

[Thorn]

The number of people with malnutrition depends on where you draw the line. Furthermore, 300$ a month from begging is more than enough to feed yourself (though obviously not enough to pay for a place to sleep).

The fact is that most of the people who profit from governmental redistribution schemes in the West are obscenely well-off by world standards. Those who support redistribution to these people in the US while there are others so much worse off are guilty of the most repugnant brand of chauvinism.

Well off if you mean the dead are buried.

[KrazyHorse]

I asked him to define it, starvation is usually when they die. Kind of like electrocution is different from electric shock.

Let's put it this way: starvation is malnutrition to the extent that, if it continued, would lead to debilitating health consequences or death within months.

[giblets]

What makes favoring your own countrymen more repugnant than, say, favoring your own family members over strangers?

[KrazyHorse]

Well off if you mean the dead are buried.

Yes, that's what I mean. You ****.