Bush seeks to offer food assistance

[flashl]

Source: UPI

WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- The Bush administration is looking for ways the United States can help meet the food need of some countries, a White House spokesman said Monday.

President George W. Bush has asked his national security advisers, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to see what the United States can do to help ease the food crisis in the near term, spokeswoman Dana Perino said during a media briefing.

"And then over the long run, the source problems will need to be identified, the source of where the food is, so that there's a long-term plan in place that helps take care of the world's poor and hungry," Perino said.

The United Nations has warned that rising food prices threaten the poor worldwide, and the World Bank is warning that the crisis could lead to "seven lost years" in fighting global poverty.

UPI

Read more: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/14/bush_seeks_to_offer_food_assistance/7061/

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That's generous, after all, 'our' USDA solved the hunger problem here back in November when saying 'hunger' is not a scientific term that can be measured. Now, Americans just 'experience' levels of food security.

What's your food security level?

[EVDebs]

1. US food stamp use projected to swell to record levels

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/food-a02.shtml

Both at home and abroad, BushCo is a fraud.

[louis-t]

2. He will try to cut out American farmers.

Already hearing his "plan" is to cut costs by arranging for poor countries to buy food from countries that are closer to where the food is needed.

[RedRocco]

3. I have some buns and some ham

both stolen from work

[MadMaddie]

4. Hey how about the bastard offer some food assistance to

America's hungry?

This is the kind of thing that the Democratic nominees could focus on if they weren't locked in a friggen junior high fight.

[tanyev]

5. He could invite 'em all to Kennebunkport for a hamburger or a hot dog.

Their choice.

[OhioChick]

6. How about some assistance to US citizens

who go to bed hungry?