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EFTA01133557 | EFTA01133583 society should make sure that every citizen has adequate healthcare, if not the best healthcare possible. If every major country in Western Europe, several the countries in Central & South America, Israel, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Morocco, Iceland and Canada can, then why can't we? Maybe this embarrassing statistic helps change this ugliness. ****** Among the many problems in the U.S., one of the biggest is hunger, now diplomatically referred to as, "food insecurity." Almost 5o million Americans who live on the edge of poverty, endure food insecurity, often skipping meals and rationing food. Many are the "working poor", who shop for grocery bargains, cooking budget-stretching stews, spaghetti and limiting their families to one meal a day. They buy discounts meats and canned vegetables, cheaper than fresh. Many are single parent families, resulting in an estimated 15 million children going to bed every night hungry. And although this sounds like vignettes in a poor Third World country, we are describing people who are trying to survive day-to-day in the richest country on the planet. When Congress officially returns to Washington next week, the diets of families like those described above will be caught up in a debate over deficit reduction. Republicans, alarmed by a rise in food stamp enrollment, are pushing to revamp and scale down the program. Democrats are resisting the cuts. No matter what Congress decides, benefits will be reduced in November, when a provision in the 2009 stimulus bill expires. Yet as lawmakers cast the fight in terms of spending, nonpartisan budget analysts and hunger relief advocates warn of a spike in "food insecurity" among poor Americans. Surrounded by corn and soybean farms — including one owned by the local Republican congressman, Representative Stephen Pincher — Dyersburg, about 75 miles north of Memphis, provides an eyeopening view into Washington's food stamp debate. Mr. Fincher, who was elected in 2010 on a Tea Party wave and collected nearly $3.5 million in farm subsidies from the government from 1999 to 2012, recently voted for a farm bill that omitted food stamps. "The role of citizens, of Christianity, of humanity, is to take care of each other, notfor Washington to stealfrom those in the country and give to others in the country," Mr. Pincher, whose office did not respond to interview requests, said after his vote in May. In response to a Democrat who invoked the Bible during the food stamp debate EFTA01133583 Epstein Web iOS app on the App Store.
May 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM