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you're taking a middle class perspective poor people in the US can't afford pizza. poor people in scandinavia don't really exist.
by forensic 17y ago
you're taking a middle class perspective
poor people in the US can't afford pizza. poor people in scandinavia don't really exist.
- hop 17y agoLets not take it out of perspective - no one will starve here, this isn't Uganda, and Domino's has $5 Pizzas.
- wisty 17y agoWhile poor people in Scandinavia (and drugs will ensure that some people are poor) can't afford $30 pizza.
- michael_dorfman 17y agoIn Scandinavia, drugs don't ensure that some people are poor. Some people choose to spend the $30 on drugs instead of pizza, of course-- but there really is no poverty here.
- Adam503 17y agoLet me ask again. Are you guys saying this video ABC report from Chicago about A food bank Chicago emptied of food is a lie? Do know that unemployment runs 70% among people with partial disabilities trying to find work? What do you think these perpetually unemployed partially disabled people are doing, living off their trust funds?
- michael_dorfman 17y agoI think you misread me. When I said "there's no poverty here", I was speaking of Scandinavia. Here in Norway, the perpetually unemployed partially disabled people are well looked after, and can afford the $30 pizzas as well as anybody else.
- scotch_drinker 17y agoJust because this food bank doesn't have food doesn't mean there are millions of people starving in Chicago. There are a myriad of reasons for why the food bank might not have food, chief among them is that in a major recession like we have been experiencing, fewer people donate. Do people exist in the US who are consistently hungry? Yes. Do they starve on a regular basis? No. It has nothing to do with whether your link is a lie or not. Does unemployment run 70% among people with partial disabilities? I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that 70% of people with partial disabilities who are trying to find work are unemployed. It doesn't sound like a particularly useful stat. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that 70% of all people who are trying to find work are unemployed. They are looking for work after all.
- fnid 17y agoActually, people do in fact starve in the united states every year. Edit: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf Page 33 says roughly 2500 people die of malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies.
- lupin_sansei 17y agoAny links to back this up?
- hop 17y ago1) Malnutrition is not starvation due to not affording food. 2) Thats a whooping 0.0009 of all deaths. 3) If you are poor in America, you are most likely to die from heart disease from eating to many $5 Pizzas and other high caloric food because it's so cheap!
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- megamark16 17y agoMy sister in law's family (parents and siblings) are all on welfare and receive food stamps. They find clever ways of using their food stamps to get cigarettes, drugs and alcohol (such as "selling" them to family and friends for cash), and more often then not they run out of food by the end of the month. Her teenage sister just had a baby and they were asking around for money for formula, even though they get hundreds of dollars a month in food stamps (more money per family member then my own family spends each month on food). I wouldn't be surprised if at least a few of her family members are malnourished, but you can't force feed people.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoYou need to present evidence people are starving due to poverty. There are all sorts of reasons one might die of malnutrition. Bulimia, for instance, is said to affect about 0.2% of men and 1.3% of women. Anorexia affects another 0.3% of people, mostly women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa HIV and many geriatric conditions also can cause malnutrition.
- Adam503 17y agoThen I guess this story from ABC Chicago is a big lie, and the food bank is really just gonna buy $5 Dominos pizzas for everyone? "CHICAGO (WLS) -- A food pantry on Chicago's far South Side says it has run out of food to help the needy. The Greater Chicago Food Depository says food banks throughout the city are in desperate need of donations. The economic downturn is making it harder for many to feed their families. The food depository says there has been a big jump in demand for help at area food banks. That's expected to go up as the holiday season approaches. And they need more supplies to meet the demand."..." http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6464966 http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6...
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoThe permanently disenfranchised immigrant underclass that the American economy relies on doesn't exist in Norway.
- forensic 17y agopizza isn't an issue of starvation, it's a luxury good norweigian pizza is expensive but everyone can afford it once in awhile american pizza is cheap but many cannot afford it at all
- anamax 17y ago> poor people in scandinavia don't really exist. Poor Scandinavian-Americans don't exist either. (Poverty is not equally distributed.)
- Adam503 17y agoSo all those blonde homeless guys I see lining up for free meals at the Mission downtown, I guess those guys would all be of German-American descent, huh?
- arihelgason 17y agoThis could be a reference to the (possibly apocryphal) anecdote that Milton Friedman was told that "we have no poverty in Sweden." To which he responded "that's interesting. We have no poverty among Swedish-Americans either."