"Just cook some beans and rice and throw in some cheap meat..."

[rustydog]

Millions of children go hungry at night...homeless people going hungry every day...NO FUCKING JOBS AVAILABLE and you say let them eat RICE???

Fuck you Hannity, you uncaring Conservative tool.

[Cleita]

1. So you are only supposed to eat only one meal a day?

Or are you supposed to eat rice and beans at every meal? Really, is that even healthy?

He might as well tell them to eat cake because he obviously hasn't been to the store lately and seen the price of rice and beans.

What a clueless shit head that guy is.

[Dragonfli]

15. That is pretty much what I do now, you get carbs and protein, but should have more vitamins

The really bad part is it is hard to eat the same thing every day. A treat is when I can buy some chicken to put in it, I am a vegetarian that breaks the rules with poultry sometimes just to make myself want to eat from time to time.

I grew up in a neighborhood that housed many families that had this as their diet, mostly poor white trash such as myself or Puerto Ricans that still spoke very little English. (we all lived in a housing complex by the Peace Bridge near Porter Ave).

One can live on less money this way (soak your own beans to save even more and buy giant bags of rice as that is the cheap way to buy rice), no one I know is happy with such a limited diet however and it is not something I recommend unless as a means to survive with limited options available to you.

If you have no choice but to eat this way, it tastes better with some Sazon (a spice) in it, you will find packets of it among the Goya stuff.

[Cleita]

22. That's awful Dragonfli, especially here in America.

I grew up in South America and we ate beans every day at our main meal at noon, but we also ate other things with the beans. We had sweet rolls and coffee for breakfast and we had tea in the evening with toast and jam and other food like fruit and cookies instead of dinner. No one should be expected to have to eat just beans and rice and only once a day, not in America. I hope your circumstances will improve and the circumstances of everyone else in your boat. I really do, and jerks like Sean Hannity deserve to disappear from the scene permanently. Bringing back that 90% progressive tax on the likes of him to pay for programs to create jobs and put social programs back in place where they were in the sixties looks better and better to me all the time.

[Dragonfli]

38. I learned this sort of thing when younger as a survival method

As a disabled man that has a condition beyond the stage where it is treatable, I can not work, All I get now is food stamps (they have been screwing me around with medicaid and cash assistance for six months now).

SSD should be available to me as I am too sick to work and will die from this as well (when is a matter of disagreement) and have paid into SS for over 35 years, and yet I was refused and my lawyer said it will be another 18 months before I get a hearing.

Social services has me in a catch 22 where I either have to work (to gain experience for free at 40 hours a week) or admit I can not actually do that much work, that requires my physician to fill out paper work, once done, now that I have reapplied for the third time I can get Medicaid, about $380 a month for rent as well as utilities (not actualy enough to do that but that is what they give) and $200 mo in food stamps.

The catch 22 is that I can not get a physician to fill out the paperwork until I have medicaid as an insurer, I need to fill out the paperwork before I get Medicaid, catch 22, I lose.

What I will probably have to do is work 40 hours a week (at least till I fall over and am taken to the Hospital) as slave labor for that small $380 stipend to get "experience" I don't need (I am a highly skilled craftsman that has experience in three separate trades all starting at 20 an hour even at non-union scale). Obviously, if I could work, I would work for the $20 plus an hour.

This is the nightmare I live in, I sell foodstamps at 50 cents on the dollar just to keep the electric on, while taking less than a quarter to buy rice and beans, and they (both parties) think our safety net needs cutting.









And folks on this site wonder why I get cranky.

[Trillo]

28. If you learn how to make salsa fresca

and how to amend the rice, and how to soak and cook dry beans creamy style, it can be a gourmet meal.

Granted, it is time consuming.

[Cleita]

30. You know Trillo, one meal in a week is fine, however, day in and day out is neither healthy nor

should it be necessary in a country with supermarkets bulging with a variety of food. What is the use of all that food if people can't afford to buy it? Monotonous, cheap food is what people escaping from famine get in refugee camps and I'm sure they are glad to get it, but in America?

[Trillo]

33. You must not cook your own meals.

I've run into prior misconceptions about what salsa fresca or pico is. Some folks seem to think it is unhealthy. Perhaps they believe it's a typical French sauce. Basically, the predominant ingredients are raw tomato and onion and peppers. fruits and veggies. Make that raw fruits and veggies. You can't really buy it in the stores unless it is adulterated with preservatives. It cannot be canned or bottled, because it's no longer fresh from the heating.

I also think you must be viewing the health aspect through different eyeglasses than I use. Beans and rice are staples from well known cuisines. The reason why those cuisines evolved to be known as regional cuisines is because the people who at them survived and successfully bred.

"What is the use of all that food if people can't afford to buy it?"

That's a good question. I think we've been discussing the super bad economy for going on what, 10 years now here on DU? I can't afford 99-100% of the food in some grocery stores, and maybe 90% of it from a few less expensive places.

Just this morning another thread referenced this report that seems to say more folks are going to go hungry, unless income is redistributed to the poor.

[Cleita]

34. I know what it is and as I said in the above post, when I lived in South America we ate beans every

day. However, we ate a variety of other food too. My point is that one shouldn't have to eat the same every day and nothing else because it's unhealthy and unappetizing. Also, have you priced produce these days? For the same reason that food in general has gone up because the fuel to transport it has gone up, if you don't grow your own it's very expensive. Even growing your own can be expensive for the soil amendments, fertilizers and water you need. I just came from the store and paid 1.79 for a head of broccoli and 2.29 for brussels sprouts. Back when I was in college, cabbages were the cheapest in the produce aisle and that's what we ate along with canned tuna.

[Trillo]

35. Cleita, I was just making a passing comment.

I can't afford those prices you quote. I don't care for brussels sprouts, perhaps because I never thought to fry them in olive oil (which itself is pricey). I've never lived in South America, no where but USA.

I do know that were I to pay some grocery store's prices for tomatoes, it wouldn't save much money vs buying the refrigerated kind of salsa with all the preservatives. I've often found that pricing in some grocery stores as suspect.

As it is, I agree with you that plain beans and plain rice is not the most appetizing of foods to eat. However, if those items are prepared well--something that homeless folks would not be able to do, even folks trying to follow recipes it would take them some time to learn how to do so if they could filter out all the dreck recipes--then you couldn't serve me another meal I'd like any better.

[Dragonfli]

40. If my wife were still alive that may be a delicious option, unfortunately, I can barely

soak the beans properly let alone cook gourmet meals.

I am the worst cook in the world unfortunately, my wife, she was practically a chef (I miss her food almost as much as I miss her)

Good advice however for those with skills above boiling water.

[AsahinaKimi]

41. That is what

I do before payday. (1st of the month)... Spices help make it more tolerable.

[Dragonfli]

42. Spices make all the difference, haven't seen you around lately, I miss the myths

and stories you used to post.

I just absolutely loved them and hope to see more in the future.

[AsahinaKimi]

45. Come visit the Asian Group

anytime! Lots there!

[Dragonfli]

46. Thank You, I will. /nt

[DearAbby]

39. "Let them eat 7-11 Cookies"

[JHB]

2. How many people does he employ, personally?

He makes about 10 million annually. so he could directly hire about 90 people at 100K each and still have an annual megabuck for personal luxuries.

I'm betting his personal finances show nothing like that pattern.

[MADem]

3. Cheap meat, eh? Does he mean roadkill?

Has he been to a supermarket lately? Even cheap meat is dear.

[ellie]

29. Agreed!

I haven't eaten red meat in years. I can't afford it.

[craigmatic]

4. This just sounds so uncaring and stupid. I'm sure that idiot thought he was giving good advice.

Who do you know that wants to eat the same thing everyday? Meat, beans and rice are what poor people eat in third world countries. I thought conservatives wanted America to be the best county in the world and for us to do better than the rest of the world. I guess not because they don't give a damn about anybody.

[guitar man]

5. "Let them eat cake" eh?

Go on, keep it up asholes!!

[Rex]

6. He is rich, why should he give a fuck?

Hannity is a rich evil fucker, why would he care about anyone but himself? That is the standard MO of all GOPukes.

[rustydog]

7. I think the most frustrating part is Hannity would say just the opposite...

IF Fox paid him to say so. He spews talking points, period. They hand him a sheet of paper (old fashioned teleprompter) and tell him, this is what you say today...
How does he sleep at night..

This was a GOP talking point trial balloon to combat the news that millions go hungry daily. You have to blunt that with simplistic talkingpoints when your party plans to kick 200 thousand-plus people off of food stamps....in order to pay for tax cuts for Hannity.

[coalition_unwilling]

8. Um, they will kick 280,000 children off the free school lunch program immediately. They

will render ineligible for government food assistance 1.5 million over a 10-year period.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/25/470967/gop-school-lunch-cuts/?mobile=nc

[rustydog]

12. Thank you, that is what I meant....

Kids are already going to bed hungry and now Republicans want them to walk to school hungry, go home hungry...it is THEIR FAULT! Lazy kids who won't mop school floors.

[coalition_unwilling]

14. According to one post I read on another thread, as many as 16 million

children go to bed hungry each night in the U.S.

So let's compound that problem by adding another 280,000 to it.

[zbdent]

9. Jesus' jaw must be hanging wide open.

[kentuck]

10. We have a moral obligation to fight evil such as this...

Its only difference from Nazism is by degree.

[coalition_unwilling]

17. I started to disagree with you and then I realized

that you have captured a deep truth, as unpleasant as it may be to face it. While the Nazis explicitly directed their extermination program at specific ethnicities, this Republican evil is at least nominally color-blind. But we all know it is minority and undocumented children who will bear the disproportionate burden.

So now I agree with you.

[noiretextatique]

20. republicons are evil: this is not just a "different opinion"

they are willing to let people starve to save their precious tax cuts for the wealthy. it is pure evil, just like their "war on women."

[GoCubsGo]

11. Never mind the children...

As somebody in another thread on the subject pointed out, this guy is making $10 million a year, yet he has friends who are being forced to subsist on beans, rice and occasional "cheap meat"? Some friend. If I was making that kind of money, no way in hell would my friends be just subsisting.

[rustydog]

13. He doesn't have friends eating beans and rice...this is the "I know a guy who" defense

He was given this talking point to counter kicking 280,000 kids off of school meals programs...let them eat RICE.

[GoCubsGo]

18. I never really believed he does have those friends.

But, admitting such a thing, whether or not those "friends" really exist, just further illustrates what a selfish dick he is.

[KamaAina]

26. If he does have friends eating beans and rice,

he's a truly shitty friend*, given how rich he is, if he's not helping them out. Then again, he is a repuke.

[Iris]

43. So this is about keeping the tax cut for the rich.

Those bastards will argue against ANYTHING. I mean, seriously, why can't they just let this one go? How heartless do they have to be?

[LASlibinSC]

16. Lying,oily,hypocrite

I hate this fucking glib snake oil salesman. In a clip on Last Word(?) he actually said that he had friends that did this all the time and it would last all week ...that nobody in this country had to go hungry. Of course I knew he was lying when he said he had friends.Think of all the barely getting by seniors that faux news has brainwashed that now feel lucky cause poor SHAME has friends that have to make apot of rice and beans last all week. I hate this shameless bastard

[lpbk2713]

19. Feed them just enough so they can grow up to be drones for the one percenters.

That is how the RW Media Hatemongers see it.

[librechik]

21. ...he said while sucking down raw oysters, caviar and foie gras with a champagne chaser

[kenny blankenship]

23. I hear the Rich are full of the good kind of cholesterol

[KamaAina]

24. "Cheap meat", eh?

He probably means this:

[MADem]

31. I was thinking he probably had stock in that shit!

You can charge more if you sell that crap for human consumption, as opposed to as pet food....

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. Roman gladiators lived on beans and barley,

cheap foods that gave them energy and a layer of fat. But living on that monotonous diet every day led to severe calcium deficiency which is why gladiators had to eat wood ash or the ashes of charred bones as a calcium source, according to archaeologists. Maybe poor people could char the skeletons of dead family members to keep from experiencing serious calcium loss.

[ladjf]

27. I don't understand how ignorant and uncaring people like Hanni ty are so popular in America. nt

[Zalatix]

32. It's like 1939 again, but without cattle cars.

Today's weapon is mass deprivation. It's quiet and it incites people to fight among themselves instead of fighting the plutocracy.

[ladjf]

47. I believe that your explanation is among a vast array of reasons for the illogical thinking that

seems to be going on among our citizens. nt

[Zalatix]

49. It's the same tactics that Europeans used to divide Africa

It's why we had the Rwandan massacres, for instance.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. Especially among those who can't afford rice and beans, let alone a cheap cut of meat.

Mind boggling.

[ladjf]

48. Hannity is too disassociated to realize how revealing his statement was about him. nt

[Beacool]

37. There's nothing wrong with rice and beans, but some people can't even afford them.

The price of rice worldwide has gone up drastically in the last year or so. Rice is not such a cheap staple anymore.

Hannity wasn't born wealthy and struggled for years to get ahead. He held many jobs to keep it together, but he ignores the current job market. When he was in his 20s he probably could find enough jobs to survive. It is not the case right now.

I saw Nightline last night and they had a segment on poverty in communities ("colonias&quot of people who live in south Texas near the border with Mexico. The people have so little. The reporter asked an 8 year old girl what she would like to have and she responded more food. Most kids would have asked for toys or video games, this little girl asked for food. Heartbreakig..........

http://abcnews.go.com/US/slideshow/hidden-america-life-colonias-16205851

[shimonitanegi]

44. It's Verminnity's way

Just cook some reports and allegations and throw in some cheap media like faux news.