# Thousands dying of starvation every day in the US?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-dying-of-starvation-every-day-in-the-us/403665>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 11, 2007, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-dying-of-starvation-every-day-in-the-us/403665 "2007-05-11T10:23:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-dying-of-starvation-every-day-in-the-us/403665/41 "2007-05-12T04:15:27Z")

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No offense friend, but I don’t quite get how you even entertain such a claim, much less attempt to post it as a serious question. Frankly, your friend is a nitwit.

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**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-dying-of-starvation-every-day-in-the-us/403665/42 "2007-05-13T06:11:07Z")

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Ive just come back from Orlando, and believe me - there aint no one dying of stravation there

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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-dying-of-starvation-every-day-in-the-us/403665/43 "2007-05-13T21:18:05Z")

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**Happy Wanderer** - Maybe you should take your friend on a field trip to a hospital so he can show you all these starving folks. In fact, with the cost of (corporate-run) health-care in this country, it’s cheaper to feed someone than to admit them to the hospital.

StG

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-dying-of-starvation-every-day-in-the-us/403665/44 "2007-05-13T23:15:15Z")

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**Happy Wanderer** , don’t go blaming your friend’s deranged paranoia on his Communist sympathies. There are intelligent Leftists who can do the math and then there are nutcakes like your friend.

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