Reply #7: Compassionate Conservatism, Neocon-style [View All]

[theHandpuppet]

This is just an example of what the Bush administration thinks about the poor and hungry in America:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5279076/
Food-bank comment causes furor
Lawmakers call for resignation after official says
some who go to food banks take 'easy way out'

Updated: 3:15 p.m. ET June 23, 2004
WASHINGTON - A senior Agriculture Department official’s comment that people who eat at food banks are “taking the easy way out” was taken out of context, an agency spokeswoman said Wednesday, after several members of Congress called for his resignation.

Eric Bost, the department’s undersecretary for food and nutrition programs, was quoted in a June 6 story in The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch about the growing use of food banks as saying he was skeptical of claims that food needs among the poor were increasing.

“There’s a bump, but how much of that is due to people taking the easy way out? I don’t know,” he said.... MORE