100% of Americans go hungry everyday!

My lie detector is buzzing. The headline reads, “One in Ten Americans Went Hungry Last Year.” Now why do I think that this is, at the very least, hyperbolic exaggeration and at worse an outright lie? Perhaps because the USDA is practicing ‘the semantic arts’ rather than reporting the facts.

More than one in 10 people in the United States go hungry, according to new official figures that suggest government food programs are falling short in the world’s wealthiest country.

More than 35 million people in a country of some 294 million went hungry last year, 390,000 more than in 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Household Food Security report. ~alternet.org

Those predisposed to utopian visions of an American Socialist future love these stories because it validates their anti-capitalist meme. However, when government agencies doctor their reports in order to make it sound as though something is true when it is not we all lose.

In issuing these kinds of reports the mission of Federal Agencies is supposedly to help the public make informed decisions about public policy. So why would the Dept. of Agriculture obfuscate in this manner? Clearly they seek to slant the facts in order to enhance their agency’s purpose and funding.

Using the semantic arts we can say that 100% of Americans go hungry every day. (Most likely due to global warming.) …Of course, I’m speaking of the interval of time between meals. In the same way, the USDA has created a semantic argument about, “incidents of food insecurity.” Essentially redefining what, “going hungry,” means.

The remaining households (10.9 percent) were food insecure at least some time during the year. About one-third of food insecure households (4.0 percent of all U.S. households) had very low food security—meaning that the food intake of one or more adults was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food. ~ers.usda.gov

Sadly, this tells us very little about hunger in America. What it does do is allow the agency and liberal ‘anti-hunger activists’ (most likely anarcho-marxist agitators) to claim a great deal more people are, “going hungry,” in order to say that the government must do more, have more power, and tax the people more in order expand government activity.

Starvation in America: How big is this problem? I respectfully submit to you that it is a problem which does not exist.

What is rarely discussed is that the government’s own data show that the overwhelming majority of food insecure adults are, like most adult Americans, overweight or obese. Among adult males experiencing food insecurity, fully 70 percent are overweight or obese. Nearly three quarters of adult women experiencing food insecurity are either overweight or obese, and nearly half (45 percent) are obese. Virtually no food insecure adults are underweight.

Food insecure men are slightly less likely to be overweight or obese than men who are food secure (70 percent compared to 75 percent). But food insecure women are actually more likely to be obese or overweight than are women who are food secure (73 percent compared to 64 percent).  ~article.nationalreview.com

Shoved into the internet 'tubes' on November 29, 2007, by Hegemonic Pundit, under the following categories: anti-capitalism, hegemony, left-wing lie machine, tax increases, the left

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