Hungry

Child hunger rose 50% in 2007 and overall 36.2 million adults and children experienced difficulty in obtaining enough basic sustenance, or as the current term in vogue puts it, suffered food insecurity. Of those some 11.9 million suffered hunger, meaning they didn't have any food at all. I feel certain we can expect the 2008 figures to be even more dismal. Yet all these 'family values' groups spent millions on promoting initiatives to discriminate against "teh gay menace." If these good Christians had a gram of real Christian charity in their souls they would have been donating to food banks instead.

On a related note, via mikevotes, I see the welfare recipients of social conservative think tanks are joining with their insider cronies in the Pentagon to launch a pre-emptive assault on social spending. The plan appears to be to build a phony narrative on the need to increase military spending for their pet projects, most of which fund advanced weapons designed to fight foes that no longer exist, in order to sabotage any fiscal reforms President-elect Obama might have for the agency and to set him up for later partisan political assaults on his policies. Essentially, they're spending billions on a plan to bleed the treasury in order to force the shredding of the social safety net and protect their own payola.

If that's not against the law, it should be. It certainly violates the rules of human decency.

[Graphic via Empty Bowls 2008.]

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