Tim Barrus: New York Times: Hungry Children
No one talks about hunger.
Hunger has put another layer of burden via a system that is a cruel antique tool of punishment for being poor.
The GOP US Senate refuses to increase food via SNAP because they agree with Mitch McConnell: “These people are lazy.” Mitch McConnell should go to prison.
How are poor children lazy. Poor children are hungry. Nationwide, SNAP is paying writ large $1.50 per meal.
How many of you could live on it. How many of the New York Times food section recipes could abide a $1.50 restriction. SNAP is just another knee on another neck. Income inequality puts kids who have very little nutrition on a good day into situations where parents kill their own children.
Any system that facilitates parents to abuse their children is not a system. It is genocide. We get twisted about quarantine. Quarantined kids who do not eat well do not represent themselves anywhere on the public stage. I deal with boys at-risk, and we are making a video of how to grab food out of trash containers. Food in dumpsters is growing low. Food in grocery stores is way, way too expensive to buy as prices have exploded. $1.50 buys you half a banana but if you you are a kid who is cutting one in half in the grocery store, you will be dealing with the police who feel you are lazy, too. The cops will ask to see the knife used to cut the banana. The kid will have to be real slow when pulling it from his pocket or he will be killed.
Child and adolescent suicides are up. The public is so stressed, they focus on a lunatic’s tweets while children are abused and hungry. The cracks both kids and adults fall into are not places anyone can emerge from.
