Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Proposta "Comunista"...

E se gli USA, invece di fare la guerra in Iraq, distribuissero l'equivalente del
costo della guerra fra la gente di cui parla l'articolo sotto?
O sarebbe troppo "comunista"?
Auguro agli Americani di capire che, nel loro paese, il piu' ricco del mondo,
certe cose NON dovrebbero succedere.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2515147.stm
No holiday for US food banks
 By Janet Williams
BBC correspondent in Seattle
As the United States celebrates Thanksgiving - with traditional feasts of
turkey and pumpkin pie - for some of the millions who live in poverty the
cupboards are bare.
It's Saturday morning in Seattle, and it's been raining for hours - yet,
even before the doors open, a line of people winds round the side of the
building and out into the car park.
They are waiting to collect handouts at the North Helpline food bank in an
affluent city in one of the world's wealthiest nations.
And some of them have experienced real hunger.
"We open the fridge, and here's nothing but a bottle of Ketchup," says
Josh Freeman, who's 19.
"We try to figure out what would go good with Ketchup!" he laughs,
somewhat grimly.
Pam Wilson, 36, has a similar story: "I've learned to eat a packet of soup
a day, instead of the three or four meals I was eating before."
Hungry children
Statistics for the year 2000, compiled by the US Department of
Agriculture, show that 10.5% of all US households - 33 million people -
suffered from "food insecurity."
That is, they couldn't afford to buy enough food to meet their basic
needs. Of those, more than eight million, including 2.7 million children,
were classified as "hungry."
Washington State ranks second in the nation for hunger, behind
neighbouring Oregon. One reason is obvious - it has one of the highest
rates of unemployment, at 6.7 %.
Over the last six months, Rita Anderson, who runs the North Helpline food
bank, has seen a 13% increase in the number of people needing help:
"We've had some donors, who were just wonderful, and then I found that two
of them were stand in line - they're now clients.
"People are making choices between medicine and food, between heat and
food, between paying their rent and food. Those are choices that people
shouldn't have to make."
But a surprising number of food bank clients do have jobs.
Josh Freeman, he of the Ketchup, works full time as a warehouse manager.
Just behind him in the food line stood Heidi - who didn't want to give her
surname - who works full-time providing child care.
Both jobs pay about the minimum wage, $7 an hour.
And in Seattle, where the cost of living is sky-high, that's not enough to
make ends meet.
Minimum wage
Says Heidi: "I've got to pay the rent, the lights, the car, and then food
for the kids, as much as possible. Sometimes I have just $5 to my name to
last two weeks."
During the 1990s, Washington State prospered. Thousands of people moved
here, attracted by jobs at Boeing and the high-tech industries.
With so many people arriving, the real estate market boomed.
But not everyone benefited, as Linda Nageotte, the President of Food
Lifeline - a major distributor of food aid in Seattle - explains:
"The folks who were at the top of the economic spectrum did really well.
But those at the bottom end actually lost ground.
"These were folks who were working full time jobs, at rates higher than
minimum-wage and they saw, over a five year period, their rents increase
by 65%.
"But their wage increases certainly did not keep pace with that."
So, some of the causes of hunger are obvious. People can't afford to buy
food, either because they don't have a job, or because the job they do
have doesn't pay enough to cover the bills.
However, it's more complicated than that.
Between them, the federal government and non-profit organisations - such
as Food Lifeline and North Helpline - provide enough financial and
material benefits to ensure no-one should go hungry.
But not everyone can get to a food bank. The poorest families don't have
cars, and in rural areas, the nearest food bank can be some distance away.
The federal government offers food stamps and other benefits. But many
fail to claim them because of language barriers, complex paperwork and the
social stigma.
Thousands don't even realise they're eligible for help.
Obviously, hunger in the US is not on the same level as, for example,
sub-Saharan Africa. It's more a low-level, debilitating malnutrition.
It makes children ill, and reduces their ability to concentrate in school.
And as education is the key to a better job, and a better salary, this
simply perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty.
As Linda Nageotte concludes: "People in the US cannot get past their
disbelief, to begin to do something about hunger. Hunger's invisible in
this country.
"It doesn't show up in the same way as it does in Third World countries,
and if it doesn't show up, it's real easy to believe it doesn't exist."


...speriamo che lo capiscano.
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Quale sarebbe il problema irakeno?

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Non saprei....ma se torrieri dice "E se gli USA, invece di fare la guerra in
Iraq" significa che un problema ci sarà! Almeno secondo l'amico torrieri
visto che da per scontato che gli usa faranno questa benedetta (?maledetta?)
guerra....e se c'è un problema sarebbe meglio risolverlo! Certo che se si
risolvesse non ci sarebbe più bisogno di fare la guerra....e allora il
pensierino del torrieri non avrebbe senso di esistere! Ma se il problema ci
fosse e fosse tale da comportare una guerra chi la potrebbe fare??? I frati
francescani??? BOH?

 francescani??? BOH?
Hai ragione,fila liscio come l'olio....

 Iraq" significa che un problema ci sarà!
Non direi. A rigor di logica significa soltanto che gli USA sostengono
di avere un problema con l'Iraq (dico "sostengono" poiché di prove non
se ne vede l'ombra - anche se ms. Rice ci fa sapere che non servono -,
e perché ci sono fondati e razionali motivi per ritenere che il
presunto "problema" sia in realtà un *progetto*), e che "noi" NON
abbiamo ancora imparato a distinguere fra i *nostri* problemi e quelli
degli "alleati", di cui però "liberamente" ospitiamo (sul "nostro"
territorio "nazionale", senza che, di converso, noi si possa godere -
né come UE né come Italia - di una parallela extraterritoralità in
USA) extraterritoriali basi militari (e financo ordigni atomici).
Bisogna diventare "antiamericani", per imparare a farsi (almeno...)
gli affari propri? Mah.
Namib

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e se gli arabi invece di finanziare i terroristi distribuissero la somma fra
la gente da te citata, sarebbe troppo fascista?
ciao
Ad'I

 se ne vede l'ombra -
Ma il problema, è appunto di avere le prove che gli iracheni non abbiano
armi proibite. Non ne hanno?n benissimo, fanno controllare anche i cessi, e
fanno una bellissima figura.
Le hanno? Ecco il problema.
Ciao
Ad'I

 armi proibite.
La prova ontologica dell'esistenza delle armi atomiche?!  :-/
GT

 GT