The Problem Is Obesity Not Hunger (Thoughts On The Food Stamps Debate)

  Throughout history, politicians have fabricated crises to justify their own solution to the crisis they themselves dreamed up. History is strewn with non-existent crises - the population bomb, global cooling, resource depletion,  freon destroying the ozone layer, and so on  - that threaten destruction unless the government acts. The U.S. "hunger crisis" is the latest in a long line of such relics. The current hysteria over the House bill to cut food stamps by $40 billion over a decade  (se...