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Think Progress Missouri lawmaker on child hunger: ‘Hunger can be a positive motivator.’

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- July 1st, 2009, 10:52 pm
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Faira wrote :
Think Progress Missouri lawmaker on child hunger: ‘Hunger can be a positive motivator.’

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I believe that hunger is a motivator - both positive and negative. From my experience, it's more often negative. When we have the ability to feed a minor, why not do it? These programs don't keep them from being hungry, only from starving to death. Telling them to get a summer job really isn't helpful. I also don't see why someone should have to turn to a religious organization just to keep from starving to death.
- July 2nd, 2009, 11:19 am
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Faira wrote :
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I believe that hunger is a motivator - both positive and negative. From my experience, it's more often negative. When we have the ability to feed a minor, why not do it? These programs don't keep them from being hungry, only from starving to death. Telling them to get a summer job really isn't helpful. I also don't see why someone should have to turn to a religious organization just to keep from starving to death.
- July 2nd, 2009, 11:20 am
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I was looking at the comments and saw this gem lulz: She doesn't look like she's missed too many meals. How would she know about hunger?
- July 2nd, 2009, 11:35 am
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"Work" has become a dirty word and to suggest that anyone work for anything an insult,i see no evidence that she suggested anyone be allowed to starve.....forbid any child be taught that there is any connection between working and living.I saw a news report last night that said tax revenue in a certain state way down,any talk about the jobs that were lost ?any talk about the idiotic economic policies that led to their loss how and industries are struggling in the anti business,socialist,radical environmentalist climate ? any talk about the people who lost those jobs ?.....oh my no...it was all about how all the "free" stuff was being threatened
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I was going to post on this, Faira; but you beat me to it. I thought it was ridiculous and cruel. What are we supposed to do, "motivate" these children to beg and steal?! Many food banks in this country already struggle in the summer months because those free school lunches go away....if we eliminate school lunches entirely, much of the "safety net" the food banks and pantries provide would give way entirely.
dito's point was well-taken - she doesn't seem to have missed many meals, so who is she to talk?!
- July 2nd, 2009, 04:39 pm
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Bandmate wrote :
"Work" has become a dirty word and to suggest that anyone work for anything an insult,i see no evidence that she suggested anyone be allowed to starve.....forbid any child be taught that there is any connection between working and living.I saw a news report last night that said tax revenue in a certain state way down,any talk about the jobs that were lost ?any talk about the idiotic economic policies that led to their loss how and industries are struggling in the anti business,socialist,radical environmentalist climate ? any talk about the people who lost those jobs ?.....oh my no...it was all about how all the "free" stuff was being threatened
Good post as usual.
- July 2nd, 2009, 05:27 pm
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graceventually wrote :
I was going to post on this, Faira; but you beat me to it. I thought it was ridiculous and cruel. What are we supposed to do, "motivate" these children to beg and steal?! Many food banks in this country already struggle in the summer months because those free school lunches go away....if we eliminate school lunches entirely, much of the "safety net" the food banks and pantries provide would give way entirely.
dito's point was well-taken - she doesn't seem to have missed many meals, so who is she to talk?!

Tell ya what,if that's the way you feel then get on the phone and call your represenatives and tell them to get off the backs of business and let them provide jobs to the American people,get the tree huggers off their backs,quit taxing them to death or else that "safety net" is going to have alot more holes in it and alot more people are going to fall through it....the magic money tree doesn't exist
- July 2nd, 2009, 05:32 pm
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Those gosh darn child labor laws are such a bummer, too! It's so much better in third world countries where children can use that "motivation" to get real jobs (although all those little begger children can just be soooooo cute!).



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Those gosh darn child labor laws are such a bummer, too! It's so much better in third world countries where children can use that "motivation" to get real jobs (although all those little begger children can just be soooooo cute!).




Irrational emotionalism at it's finest...there is no comparison between the level of poverty the children in these pictures face and what we call poverty in America....the comparison however is typical of the crowd for whom poverty and misery is stock in trade and a means to an end...one day perhaps these pictures will be taken in America...perhaps of the very children of such people.
- July 2nd, 2009, 07:05 pm
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