Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.
Disclaimer: Here at Hillbilly Report we do not condone the use of the Hillbilly Heroin. It makes you into Rush Limbaugh.
The Oxymoron is at it again. Fat, sassy, and drug addicted, he has little want for anything. Of course up in his ivory tower with his Oxycontin high, he has little compassion for those less fortunate, especially children. Yes, in the twisted world of Rush Limbaugh hungry children need simply learn the finer art of "dumpster diving" when they are hungry.
Yes, it appears as if heartless and gutless were not enough for the Oxymoron. Now he has insisted on adding soulless to the laundry list of personality traits the party he leads espouses. His solution for child hunger?? Those starving brats should just go dumpster diving. Unbelievably, even hungry children are not spared the wrath of Jabba, the drug-addicted Hutt:
A quote:
There's another place if none of these options work to find food; there's always the neighborhood dumpster. Now, you might find competition with homeless people there, but there are videos that have been produced to show you how to healthfully dine and how to dumpster dive and survive until school kicks back up in August. Can you imagine the benefit we would provide people?
http://mediamatters.org/...
The sad part is that if you put a bottle of Oxycontin in the dumpster Limbaugh would climb his fat ass in and fight off all the homeless people and starving children for rights to that particular dumpster.
When Limbaugh is through raiding his significant refrigerator to eat off his hillbilly heroin high, he might look at some facts from folks who have a lot more compassion and class than he ever thought of:
Nearly 14 million children are estimated to be served by Feeding America, over 3 million of which are ages 5 and under.
According to the USDA, an estimated 16.7 million children lived in food insecure (low food security and very low food security) households in 2008.
8 states plus the District of Columbia have 20 percent or more of children under 18 living in food insecure households; the states of Texas (22.1 percent) and Mississippi (21.5 percent) have the highest rates of children in households without consistent access to food.
The top five states with the highest rate of food insecure children under 18 are Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arizona, South Carolina and the District of Columbia.
The top five states with the lowest rate of food insecure children under 18 are North Dakota, Virginia, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Hawaii.
The top six states with the highest rate of food insecure children under 5 are Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Texas, and New Mexico
The top five states with the lowest rate of food insecure children under 5 are Massachusetts, New Jersey, Hawaii, New York, and New Hampshire
Proper nutrition is vital to the growth and development of children, particularly for low-income children. 62 percent of all client households with children under the age of 18 participated in a school lunch program, but only 14 percent participated in a summer feeding program that provides free food when school is out.
54 percent of client households with children under the age of 3 participated in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
32 percent of pantries, 42 percent of kitchens, and 18 percent of shelters in the Feeding America network reported "many more children in the summer" being served by their programs.
Emergency food assistance plays a vital role in the lives of low-income families. In 2002, more than half of the nonelderly families that accessed a food pantry at least once during the year had children under the age of 18.
14 million or approximately 19 percent of children in the U.S. live in poverty. The rate of
poverty for children under 18 remains higher than those aged 18 to 64 and for those aged 65 and over.
Research indicates that even mild undernutrition experienced by young children during critical periods of growth impacts the behavior of children, their school performance, and their overall cognitive development.
In fiscal year 2008, 49 percent of all SNAP participants were children.
During the 2008 federal fiscal year, 18.5 million low-income children received free or reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program. Unfortunately, just 2.1 million of these same income-eligible children participated in the Summer Food Service Program that same year.
http://feedingamerica.org/...
So there you hear the values of the modern Republican Party from their very leader. They are so full of greed and hatred that nothing is sacred to them, not even starving children if they have to contribute one red cent to the betterment of our country. It is mind-boggling that even starving children are not spared their vitriol as the most helpless members of our society. Let us hope their hatred and idiocy never again is allowed to make policy in our country.