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'A Slap at Schoolchildren'
May 06, 2008 7:24 AM
"How can the world's HUNGRIEST SCHOOLCHILDREN BE DENIED MEALS while the FARM BILL being debated in a house-senate conference PROVIDES MILLIONS IN SUBSIDIES FOR WEALTHY FARMERS?" That's what Democrat George McGovern and Republican Bob Dole ask in a stinging editorial in this morning's WASHINGTON POST.
What the two former senators are talking about is a plan hatched among a few senators and house members of both parties that GUTS funding for a program, that bears their name, from $840 MILLION over 5 YEARS to just $60 MILLION THIS YEAR with NO GUARANTEE OF FURTHER FUNDING. McGovern and Dole point out that $840 MILLION is LESS THAN 1% of the total cost of the Farm bill. They remind readers that for "JUST A FEW CENTS A DAY PER CHILD" a critical difference can be made in the lives of starving children. "By providing meals to children who attend school in the POOREST COUNTRIES, the program increases attendance rates and student productivity and gives hope to a new generation..."
But apparently Congress hasn't seen enough pictures of children with extended bellies and emaciated faces covered with flies.
May 6, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (2)
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This tells you how screwed this country is and if we don't get some one in the white house (obama) who will do sonthing about this and many more projects this country will go to hell in a hand basket and it does not have far to go.Only the rich live in this country most have no clue as to what it is too go hungry and be cold.This is someting the government can be ashamed of....
Posted by: honest | May 6, 2008 9:02:54 AM
i dont think that we should ever turn down feeding a child. but we need to get more countries together to help. most americans would never let a neighborhood child go hungry and die- there is no difference in children next door or in another country!
who ever ends up in the white house should talk with the wealthy in this country and in other countries and see if he/ she can not get donations or combine what ever organizations that already are in play for the poorest countries whose children go hungry and set up something where they will be able to feed themselves later ...
Every child has a gift, a contribution to the world we just need to invest in it!
Posted by: MELISSA | May 6, 2008 9:28:08 AM
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