Reply to: Help hungry Americans NOW

[Troll]

The ones living under the flyovers, for instance...

Hey ... I have slept under flyovers in the US (in my hitch hiking days ) and can recommend them in preference to the UK & continental variety (Germany autobahns are esp.bad)- they have a broad platform at the apex under the freeway that makes an ideal sleeping area as long as you don't roll over in the night!

[Torran]

I once visited Detroit, arriving by ship. I walked from the port to the city centre and saw the kind of shocking, grinding poverty that I'd seen in India just a year earlier. I got into town and sat down for a drink, and started chatting with some rather smartly dressed girls who were just out of the office at GM; they told me they were suprised I was still alive, walking through that part of town with white skin and blonde hair. I said I'd seen a few people along the way and said 'hello' and they'd said 'hello' back, in fact a couple of kids on a street corner had stopped me to chat about where I was from and told me the way to the city centre. The girls said 'whatever you do, don't walk back that way'. I did, and ended up in a rather shabby looking bar having a drink with a few black people who were very friendly; one of them said 'we never see foreigners around here and it's nice to talk to someone different'.

Now maybe my experience could have been very different, and maybe it really was a dangerous place to be, but it seemed to me that part of the problem in the US is an informal, but very deep rooted segregation of rich and poor; to some extent that works out as a segregation of black and white, but the real divide there is haves and have nots; the succesful black people do what succesful people do all over the world; they leave town and never go back. Perhaps if the white folk weren't so paranoid that every black kid they see wants to mug them and the succesful black people were to consciously take their businesses to the inner cities things could improve.

You are a lunatic sir but very well put

[BoredBloke]

I've been over there a few times and I found the yanks in North Carolina to be really friendly - obviously they don't get many tourists in Cary. In New York, LA and Orange County it was different as they obviously do. But I wouldn't advise simply wandering about as it is easy to wander into the wrong places. I worked in Costa Mesa for about 4 months and was sat watching that Ross Kemp Gangs show and he was driving down a road I'd walked down. He was doing a bit on the Nazi white supremasists. Now had I been waering my hitler costume I could have got myself into a bit of a pickle!

[Mich the Tester]

I hear that, to see more just take a walk from Brooklyn into downtown Manhattan. It shocked and appalled me. This is the richest city in the world.

The septics should be ashamed of themselves. No wonder Black Americans are happy that Obamha is in power. I hope he does not let them down.

I once visited Detroit, arriving by ship. I walked from the port to the city centre and saw the kind of shocking, grinding poverty that I'd seen in India just a year earlier. I got into town and sat down for a drink, and started chatting with some rather smartly dressed girls who were just out of the office at GM; they told me they were suprised I was still alive, walking through that part of town with white skin and blonde hair. I said I'd seen a few people along the way and said 'hello' and they'd said 'hello' back, in fact a couple of kids on a street corner had stopped me to chat about where I was from and told me the way to the city centre. The girls said 'whatever you do, don't walk back that way'. I did, and ended up in a rather shabby looking bar having a drink with a few black people who were very friendly; one of them said 'we never see foreigners around here and it's nice to talk to someone different'.

Now maybe my experience could have been very different, and maybe it really was a dangerous place to be, but it seemed to me that part of the problem in the US is an informal, but very deep rooted segregation of rich and poor; to some extent that works out as a segregation of black and white, but the real divide there is haves and have nots; the succesful black people do what succesful people do all over the world; they leave town and never go back. Perhaps if the white folk weren't so paranoid that every black kid they see wants to mug them and the succesful black people were to consciously take their businesses to the inner cities things could improve.

[BlackenedBiker]

He'll have to do "something" to avoid that.

What

[Churchill]

I hear that, to see more just take a walk from Brooklyn into downtown Manhattan. It shocked and appalled me. This is the richest city in the world.

The septics should be ashamed of themselves. No wonder Black Americans are happy that Obamha is in power. I hope he does not let them down.

He'll have to do "something" to avoid that.

[BlackenedBiker]

It's not just about some lardy yank not being able to supersize his big mac meal. There are a lot of people living in poverty in the US. When I first worked there about 8 years ago we were on a project based in North Carolina. A couple of the blokes I worked with hired a car and drove up to the Blue Ridge Mountains. All they spoke about was the amount of little kids running about with no shoes etc and that it was what you'd expect to see in India not the richest country on earth. A bit later on I worked with this guy from Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. This island is full of very nice and expensive houses. As you drive up to the island itself there are shacks on the side of the road where the poor people live. Also, as was mentioned before there are those with mental issues and the sort of homeless people you see in big cities in the UK. I'm sure many of them might be starving also.

I hear that, to see more just take a walk from Brooklyn into downtown Manhattan. It shocked and appalled me. This is the richest city in the world.

The septics should be ashamed of themselves. No wonder Black Americans are happy that Obamha is in power. I hope he does not let them down.

[Mich the Tester]

It's not just about some lardy yank not being able to supersize his big mac meal. There are a lot of people living in poverty in the US. When I first worked there about 8 years ago we were on a project based in North Carolina. A couple of the blokes I worked with hired a car and drove up to the Blue Ridge Mountains. All they spoke about was the amount of little kids running about with no shoes etc and that it was what you'd expect to see in India not the richest country on earth. A bit later on I worked with this guy from Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. This island is full of very nice and expensive houses. As you drive up to the island itself there are shacks on the side of the road where the poor people live. Also, as was mentioned before there are those with mental issues and the sort of homeless people you see in big cities in the UK. I'm sure many of them might be starving also.

Yep. The richest (or most indebted) country on earth didn't seem to be able to do much to help all those people in New Orleans who lost their homes either.

[BoredBloke]

It's not just about some lardy yank not being able to supersize his big mac meal. There are a lot of people living in poverty in the US. When I first worked there about 8 years ago we were on a project based in North Carolina. A couple of the blokes I worked with hired a car and drove up to the Blue Ridge Mountains. All they spoke about was the amount of little kids running about with no shoes etc and that it was what you'd expect to see in India not the richest country on earth. A bit later on I worked with this guy from Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. This island is full of very nice and expensive houses. As you drive up to the island itself there are shacks on the side of the road where the poor people live. Also, as was mentioned before there are those with mental issues and the sort of homeless people you see in big cities in the UK. I'm sure many of them might be starving also.

[Mich the Tester]

On the map, why are the figures for 'Child Food Poverty' higher in just about every state than general 'Food Poverty'. Are they eating their kids' share of the food?

Yes, and given the current economic woes, experts have forecast a rise in the number of children being eaten by hungry American parents.

[SizeZero]

On the map, why are the figures for 'Child Food Poverty' higher in just about every state than general 'Food Poverty'. Are they eating their kids' share of the food?

[BlackenedBiker]

Slough

Mars Bars are made in Slough, and for that reason it should be saved. IMHO

These could then be shipped to the US to feed the fat and hungry

Job Done

[Mich the Tester]

Slough

Come friendly bombs...

[bobhope]

And they leave Milton Keynes standing. Bastards.

Slough

[Mich the Tester]

Their greatest contribution to mankind is for bombing things to smithereens from a great height. They would bomb the moon given half a chance.

And they leave Milton Keynes standing. Bastards.