Thirty-six million? Good grief, Mark. Is this man a dinosaur, or what? He has to be one of the few elected politicians left, even among Liberals, who persist in this Dickensian view of the country. I can't think of many prominent elected Democrats who use this overblown dire rhetoric, can you? This doddering buffoon must think he's serving in the British Parliament in 1875. He's so old, he's olde.

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

According to Ted, then, 10%+ of the people in this country go to bed hungry....Pour him another one...

How, in their right minds, can anyone put any stock into anything this type of lying hypocrite has to say? He is like an extension of the liberal media, spouting of bogus lies, then off to his next phony crusade to "save the poor". If he is the senior senator, and hasn't put a dent in these "problems" he harps about in his 30 or whatever years there, sounds like it is time for someone to be FIRED! Ted? Hello? Earth calling Ted?

Two things emerge here: First, the real number of the "food insecure"(don't you just love sociologists?), is undoubtedly due in large part to the homeless population, who, by choice, spend what money they have on alcohol, tobacco and drugs instead of food. Second, being "food insecure" at some time during any given year isn't anything resembling "going to bed hungry every night", as the Tedster would have us believe. If he really believes that, when is he going to contribute his trust fund to solve that "problem"?

Lefties lie; it's all they have.

Well, it's pretty clear from the photo that Ted isn't hungry.

This is the lineup.  Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, etc.

If there is angst among Americans this season (2006 Christmas & New Year) it is because they are suffering one heck of a hangover for having elected these people to foist their totally silly ideas on us.

Here we go again.  The country that feeds the world can't feed itself.

What is this like a Volkswagon mechanic that doesn't own a running car?

I wonder if all the Great Society and War on Poverty funds went into people's pockets rather than food?

We should declare the War on Poverty a lost cause; admit that we have lost and precipitously pull out.

Abolish the Food Stamp Program, Head Start, WIC, school lunches, school breakfasts, the commodity program ---

Heck just abolish the Department of Agriculture.  Ain't doing a great job, huh?  Department of Education - absolute failure.  Department of Food and Drug Administration - throw it out.

Kill off all the anti-poverty programs.  Start with all the NGO (non-Government Organizations) that live off the Federal taxpayer.  They have no accountability as far as I can see.

Let's get rid of the EPA also.  Obviously that one is mucking up the food chain too.  How about the Department of Energy?  Are you getting more energy lately cheaper?  I didn't think so.

How about HUD?  Are houses more plentiful and cheaper?  Didn't think so.

How about Department of Transportation?  Are your roads better?  Less Gridlock?  Safer?  Didn't think so.

How about the Drug Enforcement Administration?  Are there less street crimes and drugs than before?  Didn't think so.

Hey, Teddy?  How about we ban Scotch drinking from the menu for now on?  Would you become more lucid?  Didn't think so.

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Acaiguana says:  "Ya can't win if ya don't play."

I suppose if you add all of those diet freaks out there his numbers are probably pretty accurate, he did not say they could not afford to eat, he said they go to bed hungry.  Oprah would be in that catagory, she stops eating at 7 and stays up late.

Let's not dither whether these folks are "food insecure" or actually hungry.

The important thing is that their bling is HUGE!

Mark, Kennedy's other big lie this morning was (my bold): "Our military has been in iraq longer than in world war II, world war I. Longer than the vietnam war. " Let's see, leaving out the timeline with sending advisors to Vietnam, I think all agree that our troops were at war in Vietnam from late 1963 to 1975. Now correct me, if I am wrong, but that is 11-12 years, any way I subtract the numbers. Our troops have been in Iraq since March of 2003. That's 3/1/2 years ago.

What was with Chris Wallace today?

On the poverty issue, Mark, Wallace did have the numbers. He quoted his source as the Brookings Institute (liberal source) right off the bat. Poverty amongst children is continuing to drop. Kennedy simply played a numbers bait and switch game with Wallace (as he commonly does with the public). 

It is true - naturally enough - that during the great bubble economy of the late 90's, the poor faired better. Poverty decreased, child poverty decreased, the number of uninsured decreased, etc. When the bubble popped in March 2000, all of that instantly began to reverse - naturally enough. Bush came in and spurred the economy with tax cuts and credits for poorer folks - and in spite of the added impact of 9/11 we did seriously experience an economic crisis.  The numbers do show that, other than the brief reversal caused by the Clinton timed recession and the shock of 9/11, child poverty rates in the country continue to drop - poverty rates are lower now, children included, then when Clinton left office. Notice I said rates - in other words precentage. During this time the population has grown by leaps and bounds, and mostly through offspring of the poor. There may indeed be a bit of an increase in the number of children living in poverty, but the % has dropped. Kennedy was way off base here, and Mark is right, Chris Wallace should have called him on this - it has been widely published.

"We have 36 million Americans that are going to bed hungry every night. 36 million Americans! And 12 million of those are children!"

And for the sake of argument, let's accept those highly debatable numbers as true.

Which other Americans are helping these people most.

Liberals and leftists like the Senior Orca for Massachusetts who talk a great deal about how damned caring they are? Or conservatives, who talk less and take action more?

Funny you should ask, because only a few weeks ago, a study by a LIBERAL academic discovered the truth...

Conservatives as a group, consistently give more to charitable causes than do blowhard leftists.

Even conservatives in lower income groups give MORE than liberals in HIGHER income groups.

Food for thought huh? So go lecture someone else Senator Tubby Kennedy (Orca, Mass.)

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast
militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

it is nice that this country has a spokesperson for the poor.  i don't think that is bad.  however,  a spokesman who is a murderer, whose example fo the poor is not good, who does not live what he preaches, who lies about the figures and tries to portray republicans as people who don't care and who tries to create hatred between the classes is NOT the type of spokesperson who will be effective. 

the poor deserve a better.

OK, fine, let's just say for the sake of argument that 36 million go to bed hungry every night...

This is because, Socialist Ted, THEY WANT TO.  The poor are poor because they make extremely poor decisions with their money.  Why is it that everytime I run into poor people who cry about how little they make, I find that they are buying a new car/truck EVERY year or have more cell phones in their family that I have EVER owned?  Or, why do they lavish every drop of earnings they get on things from satellite TV to cigarettes and alcohol? 

Book recommendations to NBers, if you haven't yet read these: The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind. 

I know it will potentially kill every Leftist on earth to acknwledge the concept of freewill, but can they just bear with us here?

(Oh, and of my own freewill, I went to bed hungry, just because I was too lazy to contemplate cooking.  The tangerine I ate was not quite satisfactory.  Does that mean, Socialist Ted, that you intend to exterminated some Rich Leeches on MY behalf?)

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy."  -Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman (1874-1965)

Its obvious that these people live in a world different from our own.

I saw the 'Lyin' of the leftist Senate' this morning...forget the lying about the starvation here in this country...did anybody catch where he said this war we are in now has lasted longer than the VietNam War...anybody? I was waiting for Wallace to try to say a little something about that lie....

Lie, lie, lie, that is all the leftist know how to do...or cheat, steal or sue if the lies don't work.

Pathetic tripe all.

"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." - Grover Cleveland

Thanks for the pic Fast Ed.  I hadn't seen that one.

Blonde, yes my husband and I laugh about his experence sometimes.  Even this morning when I saw Ted on t.v. I said, "Look, there's your buddy on television talking to Chris Wallace."  I laugh about it more than he does.  But, he does have a few choice words about Ted and all the other liberals.

 Thanks, Blonde.  Merry Christmas to you, too.   

Kennedy could have solved the "hunger" problem all these years by simply giving away half the calories he's consumed over the past 50 years!!!!

Fat Teddy is over the hill and under water these days....but raring to go with the opening of the new Congress in January......

Watch the Bloviator Supreme flex his fat, pudgy muscles when he takes control of several commitees......

Remember: Never accept a car ride from Senator Kennedy....

Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....

Kennedy is counting those who are in this country illegally.

Chris did a disappointing job; did not counter Kennedy in any way.