Why is it so hard for the left to look around and see we have it pretty good here?
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Not only is starvation not a cause of death in America, but poverty is correlated heavily with obesity. The poor are eating too much!
Here's a perspective from someone who was dirt poor. What you said is a misconception. The poor are eating the wrong things because food stamps are finite and those wrong things lead to terrible places, including obesity.
You get around $200 for a family of three per month (obviously varied by area). A current food budget for a healthy family of three is around $200 per week. This means you cover the staples - proteins and fresh vegetables for most meals with some carbs scattered to and fro.
To get away with most of your groceries for the month costing 1/4 of that, you are eating almost exclusively carbs. Beans, noodles, and that sort of thing. With that sort of diet comes poor nutrition and further binging on carbs to try and feed the persistent internal knock from the body asking for proper vitamins and minerals.
Poor people are fat because the government decided to pay them just enough to buy the worst possible foods - foods that leave them in a permanent state of poor nutrition with the highest energy content possible.
They make poor choices with the money they’re given. I used to deliver pizzas and the first weekend of every month, after the food stamps were sold to others for cash, we spent so much time delivering $50+ orders to the hood.
I also worked at a liquor store near there and let me tell you the amount spent on hennessey and newports was astounding.
Government assistance is wasted and exploited on a massive scale by nearly every recipient
That people make poor choices I don't dispute, but they also don't have the option to make better choices. The choice is "terrible or shitty". Not "terrible and help you get back on your feet."
The reason the government wastes so much money is because the government designed the system specifically to keep poor people just fucked enough that they give up and vote in their new master, same as the old master.
Back when I was poor, the first bit of advice I was always given was to "stop going to Starbucks everyday". The first time I was given that particular pearl of wisdom, I'd had Starbucks precisely once in my life and some coworker had brought it to work.
You want people to not be poor but fat? Provide useful tools to get back on their feet that isn't guided by government and industry to keep a perpetual anf viable underclass of serfs.