This is so sad - I hate having hungry Americans when we're the richest...

...country in the world!

"Some Food Banks Say Katrina Drained Aid

NEW YORK - After Hurricane Katrina, Americans sent waves of trucks loaded with food to the many thousands of people driven from their homes by the storm. But that generosity may have had a hidden cost.

Some hunger-relief charities in cities far from the disaster are reporting a decline in donations, largely because many contributors have been sending food to the Gulf Coast instead.

The Food Bank for New York City, which supplies 1,300 soup kitchens and food pantries, said it collected about 2.4 million pounds of food in the past four months, 1 million fewer pounds than it gathered during the same period last year.

"We are tapping into our reserves," said spokeswoman Lisa Jakobsberg. "I have not seen our shelves as empty as they are right now since 9/11."

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The growing number of hungry Americans is proof that Bush's economic policies have failed. It enrages me that Congress is busy cutting food stamps and school nutrition programs. These heartless officials need to be forced to go hungry themselves so they can learn to appreciate what life is like for many of the poor in America!

DUers, remind your elected officials that we Americans care about the poor and hungry even if Bush and his cronies don't!

(And we traded looted Halliburton dollars for this?)

there is NO excuse.

Or those that have to choose between food and medicine. You are right. It is a national disgrace.
I doubt that those proud citizens who thump their chests, and proclaim America to be the greatest
country on earth, fall into any of these categories.

It is really sad to think that there are people in this country that won't be having a Thanksgiving meal. :cry:

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