Thankful? For What? Nearly one in five U.S. households celebrated Thanksgiving on food stamps this year. Back in fiscal 2000, there were 106,061,000 households in the United States and, according to a USDA report published in November 2012, there was a monthly average of 7,335,000 households—or 6.9 percent—getting food stamps that year. As of this August 2014, according to the most recent data released by USDA, there were 22,729,389 households on food stamps. That equaled 19.75 percent of 115,048,000 households in the country at that time. In each of the two previous fiscal years, the percentage of American households on food stamps in the average was near 20 percent, hitting 19.4 percent in 2012, 20.4 percent in 2013. As of August, according to the Department of Agriculture, there were 46,484,828 individuals in the food stamp program. Growing up “American” has always had in it a certain element of ethnocentric superiority. From day one, we are taught that we are the Richest, Most Powerful Nation on this Earth. As we mature we come to accept that capitalism and our natural resources and our military might have established us as safe from all threats; foreign and domestic. We count as among our blessings that we are of a very few peoples on this earth who can go to bed at night with confidence that our government and military will keep us safe and be in place in the morning. The Richest, Most Powerful Nation on the Earth and in all of History, with the Greatest Liberty and Recognition of the Human Being and an Indelible Right to Life, stands quiet while more than 1 in 5 of our children live in poverty. I am ashamed of my country. You should be too. Where are the armies who support life even all the way back to conception? Why do they continue to watch their neighbor starve? Imagine if I had five dogs and I deliberately starved one of them. That would be a crime. Letting our fellow citizens starve is just as criminal.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:39:40 +0000
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