"Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food ...

[Scuba]

[xchrom]

1. du rec.

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...and shared...nt

[alterfurz]

3. "When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint...

...when you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist." -- Archbishop Hélder Câmara, Brazilian liberation theologist

[Enthusiast]

4. Brilliant!

[Whisp]

6. ++++

[Enthusiast]

5. During the Irish potato famine Ireland was a net food exporter.

The Irish Powers That Be said we dare not feed them for they will grow dependent on the government dole. Millions starved.

Make no mistake, people, we are dealing with the same mentality here with Republican American austerity cheerleaders.

[jtuck004]

7. And when you ask why they send money to the banksters when we have people with no food, they

tell you that it's so the people who have less will be better off.

Never did believe that one.

[Scuba]

8. Yeah, I was born in the morning, but it wasn't yesterday morning.

[jtuck004]

9. Exactly. n/t

[d_legendary1]

10. Trickle down economics

creates a nation of peons! Get it? No? Okay...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. Demonstrably false.

We have plenty of democracy, it just doesn't always produce terribly good results.