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Yes, but if you are an "Occupier" you agree to abide by the votes of the General Assembly. The original statement by Occupy Wall Street, that was endorsed by m

Yes, but if you are an "Occupier" you agree to abide by the votes of the General Assembly. The original statement by Occupy Wall Street, that was endorsed by most GAs, stated they were non-violent. Being violent plays right into the script of the State. However, Occupiers also always have free autonomy as individuals. "food is taken care of in the USA" Not for poor children. Not for homeless mentally ill people who don't take their medication. Not for elderly who live on fixed incomes during the Winter. There is much shameful hunger in the USA.

ekianjo 14y ago
"There is much shameful hunger in the USA." AGain ? Do you hear dozens of people dying from starvation everyday in the papers? Starvation has a cause of death is like almost nil in all modern countries. You should be more worried about obesity, diabetes as morbidity-leaders among all categories you mentioned.
- lifeguard 14y ago
  You need to understand poor nutrition causes a lot of health problems and can lead to an early death. Food is not a dichotomy.
- sp332 14y ago
  Do you hear dozens of people dying from starvation everyday in the papers? No, because it's not news. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf There were 2,850 deaths in the USA directly from malnutrition in 2009. That's almost 1 per 100,000 people, every year. That's more than twice as many as Hodgkin's disease.
  - ekianjo 14y ago
    I reacted to the "much" from the previous comment. Your statistics clearly show that is NOT one of the leading causes of death, it's actually a very minor one compared to all the others. You cannot qualify this as "much" in any way.
- runjake 14y ago
  Hi. I think you're ignorant. I'm a guy who, for a number of years during my young childhood, was hungry in the US. Meals at home consisted of some "creative" variants of government cheese (yeah, it actually existed. The blocks in the cardboard wrappers.), egg noodles, cheap and expired white bread and milk or milk powder. We'd go to these stores, which you may not be aware of, but they sell expired food at steep discounts. It wasn't like a grocery store with stuff neatly displayed. Everything was dumped into giant bins and you dug through them. We felt like scavengers. For a long time, I knew how long after expiration each food time was good for. My only saving grace was stealing food and the free school lunches which sometimes provided fruit and some variance to my meals. But that still wasn't enough and I wasn't hungry in the "boy, I could use a sandwich!" way you might be familiar with, I was hungry hungry. I don't really want to blame anyone, but the fact of the matter is that there are kids in this country, who through no fault of their own, suffer.
  - ekianjo 14y ago
    I am not saying that it does NOT exist, I am saying it is very uncommon nowadays, and that saying "much hunger" is clearly an exaggeration at the same level as what tabloid are capable of. There is no way you can compare the situation in the US with the situation in many other countries in the world and say there is "much hunger" in the US. It's just being blatantly ignorant of the situation outside of your country.
    - lifeguard 14y ago
      IN AMERICA NINE MILLION KIDS WENT TO BED LAST NIGHT HUNGRY
      - lifeguard 14y ago
        This is more accurate: Typically, households classified as having very low food security experienced the condition in 7 months of the year, for a few days in each of those months.

ekianjo 14y ago

"There is much shameful hunger in the USA." AGain ? Do you hear dozens of people dying from starvation everyday in the papers? Starvation has a cause of death is like almost nil in all modern countries. You should be more worried about obesity, diabetes as morbidity-leaders among all categories you mentioned.

lifeguard 14y ago
You need to understand poor nutrition causes a lot of health problems and can lead to an early death. Food is not a dichotomy.
sp332 14y ago
Do you hear dozens of people dying from starvation everyday in the papers? No, because it's not news. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf There were 2,850 deaths in the USA directly from malnutrition in 2009. That's almost 1 per 100,000 people, every year. That's more than twice as many as Hodgkin's disease.
- ekianjo 14y ago
  I reacted to the "much" from the previous comment. Your statistics clearly show that is NOT one of the leading causes of death, it's actually a very minor one compared to all the others. You cannot qualify this as "much" in any way.
runjake 14y ago
Hi. I think you're ignorant. I'm a guy who, for a number of years during my young childhood, was hungry in the US. Meals at home consisted of some "creative" variants of government cheese (yeah, it actually existed. The blocks in the cardboard wrappers.), egg noodles, cheap and expired white bread and milk or milk powder. We'd go to these stores, which you may not be aware of, but they sell expired food at steep discounts. It wasn't like a grocery store with stuff neatly displayed. Everything was dumped into giant bins and you dug through them. We felt like scavengers. For a long time, I knew how long after expiration each food time was good for. My only saving grace was stealing food and the free school lunches which sometimes provided fruit and some variance to my meals. But that still wasn't enough and I wasn't hungry in the "boy, I could use a sandwich!" way you might be familiar with, I was hungry hungry. I don't really want to blame anyone, but the fact of the matter is that there are kids in this country, who through no fault of their own, suffer.
- ekianjo 14y ago
  I am not saying that it does NOT exist, I am saying it is very uncommon nowadays, and that saying "much hunger" is clearly an exaggeration at the same level as what tabloid are capable of. There is no way you can compare the situation in the US with the situation in many other countries in the world and say there is "much hunger" in the US. It's just being blatantly ignorant of the situation outside of your country.
  - lifeguard 14y ago
    IN AMERICA NINE MILLION KIDS WENT TO BED LAST NIGHT HUNGRY
    - lifeguard 14y ago
      This is more accurate: Typically, households classified as having very low food security experienced the condition in 7 months of the year, for a few days in each of those months.