Starving Children In America

[mikey4444]

Just seen this on the BBC News website. I could hardly hold back the tears. This, in the worlds richest country, in a city where countless millions of dollars is wasted each year on slot machines :::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9695000/9695217.stm

[emmie]

nothing like someone to take the proverbial, or to actually believe what you say.

[friedgreentomato]

//I was brought up in the 1930's depression. My father was out of work and we were very poor. So were all the people who lived around us. I did not starve but I was certainly very often hungry. My mother was what might be called 'a good manager'. She would make a stew from bones she had begged from the local butcher and a few vegetables. I remember my father coming home from the local tip where he had found some potatoes growing in a corner. Great! Our clothes were patched and darned and in the winter we shivered at night under a couple of very thin blankets. Somehow or other we survived, and here I am nearly 86 and still here! And, believe it or not, I had a happy childhood, because one thing was not lacking in our house - love//

And the cinema a lot so it seems!!!

[Sqad]

ummmm....fine, then why not relate it in a civilised manner.....calling someone's personal experience as "Tosh" doe you or your intellect, little credit.

[emmie]

why do some not believe what they read, do you think that it's made up to garner sympathy.
Sqad you said that people didn't go hungry then, but some did, we did at times, and many others who we lived cheek by jowl with.