The government tells us 33 million Americans suffer from food insecurity!
Really? 33 million Americans are hungry?
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“That’s just not true,” says Rachel Sheffield, a researcher at The Heritage Foundation. “’Food insecure’ adults are more likely to be consuming too many calories rather than too few,”
The government always tries to create a crisis.
“Government programs tend to want to keep themselves going,” says Sheffield. But their handouts harm the very people they are meant to help.
“We’ve spent more on the war on poverty than all the military wars combined in the United States without any success.”
The result? Increased dependency on government!
Expanding the welfare system seems to be the government’s main goal.
The food insecurity myth and others, like “food desserts,” are debunked in the video above.