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Monday, December 28, 2015

Mandatory Health Insurance, How Did This Come First Before Mandatory Food and Shelter?

Viewing a tweet on twitter about food and shelter for all, it hits me, the big problem I have with Mandatory Health Care or Obamacare.
Doing much work with the homeless and the hungry, I realize that without food and shelter there can be no health.
So are we not putting the cart before the horse making it mandatory for each of our citizens to protect ourselves with medical insurance but not making it mandatory to feed ourselves, and not making it mandatory to provide ourselves with shelter.
Seems a little silly when we put it this way doesn't it.
The government says if you can't pay for insurance we will provide it.
Why is the government not saying if you can't pay for food we will provide it?
Why is the government not saying if you can't pay for shelter we will provide it?
If the government truly wants us to be healthy, to go so far as to mandate that all citizens must have health insurance, why are they not stepping in with the ultimate health insurance, which would be food and shelter for all?
Bunny Rabbit on a Mission to End Hunger

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Do what we can about hunger at whatever level we are we currently at in life.

The following is correspondence between a friend of mine in Africa and myself. It answers the question of "What can I do to end hunger, I am just one tiny person in the Universe"? -------------------- Hi Kathy, I hope you're good.I have keen interest to stay in touch and learn from you ideas that can change Africa.I come from a land locked country with full of hunger and poverty plus malnutrition among children. I am a change agent who mostly volunteer in rural communities since I do not have a job country hence I need to sharpen my skills in building my career at the same time touching people's lives with relevant interventions. It is of my great understanding that you work at policy level,however,prior to your level I am sure you have done some ground work that can be helpful in my country context particularly in rural setting for the rural poor. With thanks!! Dear ...... I like you started at ground zero with my hunger activism. I was without a job and instead of sitting around doing nothing I reached out and did whatever I could do for those that had less than I, much as you are doing now by volunteering in rural communities. There is much that needs to be change in America with regard to our food supply and getting food to those in need, many many people in America are hungry and this should not be. The answer to solving hunger in Africa and America has to be solved using completely different methods but with the same goal, to end hunger all hunger over the entire planet. Each country must look around with their own eyes in their own country, identify the reasons for hunger and identify what solutions will bring the most food to the most people with the least amount of monetary input. Tenacity gets the job done, always always looking for solutions, never listening to those who say it cannot be done, and avoiding those who simply have no compassion for the pain of their fellow human beings. As you help others you will find help comes your own way in regard to your job situation. That is the way of the universe, the energy you put out will return to you in exact proportion and kind.Like attracts like. Yours is a wonderful spirit it is the spirit of love and compassion. I have been working for years on the political level and just keep putting out the same message and that is, hunger is unconscionable and it is time for it simply not exist anymore. I will insert a link to my political blog here as you might find it interesting. Blessings Kathy