Allow me to present two pictures to you. First there is India and in the second frame we have America. The Indian Cabinet just voted, in an executive order, to establish a legal right to food for everyone and will create the world's largest food subsidy system for the poor. Meanwhile in America, Congressional forces continue to try to cut Food Stamps for the poor and near poor.
Just think, in this day and age, a country that was always considered somewhat backwards and very unfair to it's lower classes, is realizing the rights of it's poor, while America, land of the free, a Christian nation in the minds of those who would deny food safety, is denying the same rights. How Christianly is that? I guess in America you're free to eat anything you can afford, but you're not free to get any help if you can't afford the food your family needs.
India is right. Everyone should be provided with the right to food. If you can't afford proper nutrition, it should be provided to you. America is wrong. When you try to take away the means of providing nutrition to a family, that act flies in the face of humanity. A country that refuses the needs of it's poor, cries out for change.
What I don't understand is why so many people in conservative states, where the most Food Stamp
Recipients live, are against the very services they depend on. Why do you suppose a person who needs and receives the help would support anyone who advocates to end that help?
What's needed is not necessarily more help, but more people to stand up for the needs of their fellow inhabitants of America and here on earth.
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