{"id":3491,"date":"2009-11-16T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T02:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2009-11-16T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T02:41:27","slug":"nobody-in-america-is-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/11\/16\/nobody-in-america-is-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody in America is Hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"

DougJ explains how<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to romanticize the past, of course. But I distinctly remember that 20 years ago, things like sudden increases in the number of people going hungry were considered important issues. Nowadays to even muse about whether this is something we can do something about as a society marks you as an unserious hippie. Even as we speak, Slate\/Levitt\/TNR are probably writing something along the lines of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you think that having a high percentage of the population without access to food is bad, but once you get past the conventional wisdom of our hippie overlords, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see that blah blah blah.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d David Brooks is probably on the Snooze Hour telling E. J. Dionne that the only solution is food vouchers and, anyway, in Red America, the hungry can always visit the Applebee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Salad Bar for free. Robert Samuelson and Fred Hiatt are cooking up some bogus figures to tell us that there is no way that we, as a society, can do anything about this. And, anyway, Michael Moore is fat, so how can anyone really be hungry?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It would be funny, except it’s not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DougJ explains how: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to romanticize the past, of course. But I distinctly remember that 20 years ago, things like sudden increases in the number of people going hungry were considered important issues. Nowadays to even muse about whether this is something we can do something about as a society marks you as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t