Hunger up 50% in a year

Today's BushAmerica statistic: In 2007, child hunger in America soared 50% just from the previous year. Over 700,000 American children went hungry, according to new Agriculture Department numbers.

Remember, we're talking 2007 here, so this doesn't even take into account the economic woes of 2008.

Child hunger increases while banking industry stuffed shirts purchase sparkling new jet airplanes with $700,000,000,000 in bailout money Congress gave them. Much of this bailout money came from the very taxpayers whose kids are starving!

I wonder how the noise machine is going to try to spin this. Around the time the elder Bush left office, researchers predicted that years later there would be increased hunger in the U.S. caused by corn shortages. But these spinmeisters said not to worry because it would "solve" the obesity "pandemic." Now that 45% of American families report losing weight because they don't have enough food, count on the media machine to spin that too.

You can almost see Phil Gramm sneering at us right now.

Apparently, America's right-wing leaders are arrogant enough that they think can put us on a diet by not doing anything about hunger. That's how they "think."

(Source: http://www.newsnet5.com/health/18000875/detail.html)