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by cguess 62 days ago
Oh boy, you're not paying attention or you're in a bubble. Not usually distended belly-famine starving, sure, but malnutrition is rife in many rural and impoverished counties in the country.
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I would have agreed until I went abroad.

I distinctly remember seeing the mother and child in a dark stairwell mother thin as a rail sitting on dirt and trash the woman barely lucid baby wailing.

Or the old man begging on the corner with one arm clearly starving in nothing but a fabric cloth pants the bones sticking out like nothing I've seen before.

Malnutrition by western standards is bs you're either dying or you're not. Most of the world does not live on a balanced diet.

Educate me. Isn't that what food stamps / SNAP is exactly intended to prevent? On top of the many soup kitchens and church/charity food drives.
Okay so they aren't in a bubble and paying attention because malnutrition isn't starving.

And Trump is probably malnourished but it has nothing to do with means.