Hunger: Who is Responsible?

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This paper is critical of the Hunger Relief Act of 1999, arguing that it will expand entitlements to immigrants and overtax the U.S. budget. The author maintains that the majority of America's hungry are recent immigrants, who have come from impoverished countries to the U.S. in search of a hand-out. The author concludes that the U.S. needs ambitious people of all genders, colors and ethnic backgrounds seeking to participate in the nation's economic growth rather those coming just to collect food stamps and welfare checks.

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"The Hunger Relief Act of 1999, co-sponsored by a bi-partisan group of liberal senators and Congress-persons, will expand food stamps and increase the Emergency Food Assistance Program. The bill was introduced in the Senate on October 27, and in the house on November 1. Of course, it is humanely and politically incorrect to be "against" eliminating hunger. What is possible, however, is to be against the new bureaucracy that this bill engenders, and the increased dependency on federal welfare programs, when hunger should be eradicated by providing work and income incentives that will provide the nourishment for young and old. This is far more fair than handouts generation after generation, where little effort is made to find the reasons for poverty and hunger and attacking them."

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