We just need to get those resources back from the 1% who have it locked up.

I just thought the commercial was poignant in that it's usually the United States helping some poor country.

But, more to the point, we've become that "poor: (thanks to the 1 percent) country and, while a spoof, the commercial points that out.

I am all for helping other countries but should we help our own first? We actually could do both.

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like terms. How many worker protection would Honduras have to do away with to get that food? Who benefits? Nike? Apple?

Let's NOT forget: the economic hitman confessed!

Tis true. The children of today are the leaders tomorrow, irrespective of food and education and health care. The way we treat our children tells the world what we think of our own future.

Families are given food funding and children now get three meals at school (dinner is expanding but breakfast and lunch are consistent now). I wonder if we were to give children a separate allowance for food......200 dollars a month for each child in America that might stop the hunger that is left). Seems like an easy thing to do.

and often difficult to access (via other common obstacles of poverty like a lack of vital documents, lack of money to pay document fees, excessive red tape and hassle about "proving" how poor you are, etc.) Many of these people are also trapped living in "food deserts" where grocery stores have closed and the only place to buy food within walking distance are convenience stores. The options at a convenience store are terrible in terms of health and nutrition, and they are also extremely overpriced, so your SNAP benefits get eaten up quickly.

I think we need to bring back commodity food distribution centers, as an adjunct to the SNAP program, especially in places where there aren't enough grocery stores. Or even (dare I say it?) government-run food markets where the federal government sells food to poor people who receive SNAP or public assistance, because the government can get awesome deals on food in bulk and pass on those savings to the needy. We have stores like that for our military members already. Just expand that model nationwide and open them up to people who receive SNAP, WIC, SSI, TANF, Medicaid, etc. SNAP benefits would go much, much further at a store like that.

and the desire to keep prices high:

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We've got lots of money for humvees for cops and prisons for pot smokers and corporate mega-millions bailouts and subsidies, but this nation that allegedly follows a "savior" who said: FEED THE POOR does not have enough resources to feed all of our children?

Where is this god I keep hearing about? This Sky Daddy who loves little children? I can't figure out why a "Christian nation" loves to starve its own babies.