Comments:UN: one billion hungry people in the world
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You know, for there to be a billion people in the world without food, there have to be another billion schmedricks out there with absolutely no idea why the other billion are starving in the first place. They need immediate and unbiased access to food, shelter, and work. Not a dollar and a half. It's absolutely ludicrous that we're more worried about "helping" people than we are about doing something that would actually help them: either offer them steady means of support and allow them the choice of immersion, or just leave them alone, period. Do you honestly think we're doing more good than harm by subverting culture like this? For a dollar-fifty a week.
Farmer tends crops for eighty hours, makes a dollar-fifty.
Broker tends market speculations for four hours, makes thousands.
Farmer disperses his yield among family and friends.
Broker disperses his yield among personal bank accounts.
I wonder how either values honesty and respect?
Maybe these things are obselete.
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Are there 1 billion hungry, or are there 1 billion with 'food insecurity'? 128.210.90.12 (talk) 18:31, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Why does this not surpise me?
[edit]I mean, hearign that a billion people in the world are hungry/starving/not eating as well as they might should be shocking....but it's not 164.116.47.179 (talk) 16:27, 24 November 2009 (UTC)