Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Joel Berg, All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?

By: TheLurkingMod

TheLurkingMod — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:01:48 +0000

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By: Joel Berg

Joel Berg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:57:34 +0000

Thanks so much to Robin, Bev, everyone who wrote, and all the folks at Firedoglake

By: Robin Stelly

Robin Stelly — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:57:24 +0000

Thanks, everyone. Thanks, Bev and Joel. I also suggest picking up the book. It’s got a wealth of important info but it’s a quick read as well. You’ll want to lend it to all your friends.

See you all later. :)

By: Joel Berg

Joel Berg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:56:36 +0000

I agree Earl. The myth trumped the reality and struggling families were, as is so often the case, the victims

By: BevW

BevW — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:56:15 +0000

As we come to the end of this lively Book Salon,

Joel, Thank you for stopping by the Lake and spending the
afternoon with us discussing your new book and hunger in America.

Robin, Thank you very much for Hosting his great Book Salon.

Everyone, if you haven’t bought Joel’s book yet, here is a link.

Thanks all.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:55:21 +0000

Food stamps were gambled away or used to purchase liquor and cigarettes anyway, right? Or so our intrepid Republican foes of a credible safety net for the most vulnerable Americans argued under Uncle Ronnie. Ironically, most of Mr. Reagan’s wealth, in contrast, including his coastal California ranch, were gifts - not from a grateful nation, but from grateful billionaires. His Hollywood revenues were spent by the late sixties when he became governor of California.

The anti-poverty program arguments that persuaded Reaganites to trash them must have been written by a Chicago grad who’d never missed a meal, but who’d spent a day on the wrong side of the tracks. Or by somebody who didn’t care whether what he was writing was accurate, only that it repeated well in the echo chamber.

By: Joel Berg

Joel Berg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:55:12 +0000

I used math as much as possible to try to prove that none of this was my opinion — its simply logistics

when we have a bih snow storm, we don’t expeerct volunteers with hand shovels to clean up major highways — why do we expect volunteers handing cans of food to each other can solve a massive problem like this?

By: Robin Stelly

Robin Stelly — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:54:50 +0000

And we have to organize to secure more of them.

By: Robin Stelly

Robin Stelly — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:54:13 +0000

Maybe millions? And we’re treading water at best. The gains you mentioned under Obama will help though.

By: Robin Stelly

Robin Stelly — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:53:23 +0000

In the book, it’s the math that gets you every time and it’s always a shock to see how short we fall b/c there are hundreds of thousands of person-hours put into volunteer food relief.