Thursday, March 06, 2014

Paul Ryan's Brown Bag Story at CPAC

Rep. Paul Ryan spoke at CPAC and made this bizarre statement.

He then told an anecdote he said was relayed to him by Eloise Anderson, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) Department of Children and Families secretary.

"She once met a young boy from a very poor family, and every day at school, he would get a free lunch from a government program," Ryan said.

"He told Eloise he didn’t want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown-paper bag just like the other kids," he continued. "He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown-paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand."

I previously wrote before about a 60 Minutes piece on homeless children in Florida suffering with hunger. These children need a free lunch. Ryan offers these children no solutions.

The Wire reports Ryan's story may not have happened. Ryan's story is very similar to a scene in author Laura Schroff's book An Invisible Thread." Here is the excerpt.

This reminds me of when Ryan showed up to a soup kitchen unannounced and washed already clean dishes for a photo-op.

I agree with Cenk Uygur in the second video. Ryan is a fraud.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Quote of the Day

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Farm Share Food Giveaway

Rep. Mike Fasano, Rep. Richard Corcoran and Sen. John Legg are doing the annual Farm Share Holiday Food Giveaway. Food has been donated from local farms Publix, AT&T and other local citizens.

"We are once again blessed to work with farmers throughout Florida to provide food at this special time of year," Fasano stated in a press release. "When so many families are hurting is is wonderful to see our community come together to serve others."

Fasano did the food giveaway last year and deserves praise for his efforts to help needy families.

What: Farm Share Food Giveaway

When: Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. to noon

Where: Redeemer Community Church, 9230 Ridge Road, New Port Richey

Screening: "The Farm Share program requires that families be asked for proof that they receive Medicaid, SSI and/or food stamps," Giordano said.

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Thursday, November 01, 2012

New Yorkers Dumpster Diving After Hurricane Sandy

View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com.

Can Mayor Michael Bloomberg take time from endorsing candidates and get food to his constituents. People are dumpster diving in mass on the Lower East Side. This is really bad.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Compassionate Conservatism: Rush Limbaugh



Rush Limbaugh's daily hate rant was aimed at poor people who have difficulty feeding their children. Rush's solution is these people should dumper dive to feed their children.


You know, one of the benefits of school being out, in addition to your kids losing weight because they're starving to death out there because there's no school meal being provided, one of the benefits of school being out, college campi being vacant this time of year, is that our audience levels go up. I think, you know what we're going to do here, we're going to start a feature on this program: "Where to find food." For young demographics, where to find food. Now that school is out, where to find food. We can have a daily feature on this. And this will take us all the way through the summer. Where to find food. And, of course, the first will be: "Try your house." It's a thing called the refrigerator. You probably already know about it. Try looking there. There are also things in what's called the kitchen of your house called cupboards. And in those cupboards, most likely you're going to find Ding-Dongs, Twinkies, Lays ridgy potato chips, all kinds of dips and maybe a can of corn that you don't want, but it will be there. If that doesn't work, try a Happy Meal at McDonald's. You know where McDonald's is. There's the Dollar Menu at McDonald's and if they don't have Chicken McNuggets, dial 911 and ask for Obama.

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?


Worldhunger.org has disturbing numbers on child hunger.


--36.3 million people--including 13 million children--live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. This represents more than one in ten 0households in the United States (11.2 percent). This is an increase of 1.4 million, from 34.9, million in 2002.

--3.5 percent of U.S. households experience hunger. Some people in these households frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food for a whole day. 9.6 million people, including 3 million children, live in these homes.

--7.7 percent of U.S. households are at risk of hunger. Members of these households have lower quality diets or must resort to seeking emergency food because they cannot always afford the food they need. 26.6 million people, including 10.3 million children, live in these homes.


If Rush had his way, there would be no government assistance for the 13 million hungry children in America. Rush would just tell these kids to dumpster dive. Rush may not be aware nor care, but not feeding children would make America responsible for a form of child abuse.

Rush is not a political pundit or an entertainer as he sometimes claims to be. I certainly never have seen Rush sing, dance, act or show any signs artistic merit. Rush is one of the voices that filled in the void when AM radio was dying in the 80s. Rush Limbaugh is a paid professional douchebag.

Rush can go on-air and not have to deal with any consequences of his words. I seriously doubt Limbaugh would have the courage to tell parents, at a food stamp office, to let their children eat out of dumpsters. Rush would be afraid an angry father would kick his ass. Rush's job is to attract the same audience that watches reality television, professional wrestling and Faces of Death movies. Sadly, too many people take Rush's freakshow seriously.

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