Do you have something to disprove that belief?

Your taxes pay for education.

As for starvation and malnutrition:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodSecurity/

(hint: official documents use euphemisms other than "starving" to report on such things. makes for bad copy, see.)

One thing to keep in mind when considering American "food security" is that in blighted cities, there are frequently NO food stores within miles other than gas stations. Supermarkets will simply not build in too-impoverished areas.

Also, don't let stereotypes block the perception of the situation: some of the poorest people on Earth are dirt-farming white folks in W. Virginia.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/04/populism-malkin-style.html

That's Malkin's semi-creepy "John Doe" quasi vigilante movement to encourage citizens to be on the look out for "Islamofascists"*

And then look at this http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007352.htm

What does one say to that? Someone, after reading a Malkin column, was inspired to get "I will not submit" tatooed on his arm in arabic. In Malkin world, they really are living in this state of paranoid hysteria where they fear that at militant Muslims will be invading their homes and forcing them into servitude at any moment. It's like they've worked themselves into some kind of mass delusion where they've all transported themselves into a fanstasy world similar to that of the movie Red Dawn, but instead of expecting Communists to drop down in Colorado or wherever the movie was set they're expecting an immenent ivasion of "Islamofascists" and Mexican Requoncistas.

*"Islamofascist" is a slogan, and althought clerical "fascism" has resembles fascism in its fanatacism and mass political nature, it can't truely be fascism because fascism is born as a reaction to what is perceived to be failed liberal democracy.

Like it or not, the only reason people starve and go uneducated is because of bad government

So your suggesting it IS government's role to make sure people don't starve? Sounds like shooter's channeling LBJ!

-- William Timberman

Ah, I see shooter, that you believe that no one in the United States starves, and that education is free. That's what the bumper sticker says, so you believe it.

Do you have something to disprove that belief?

Beyond that, what made you think I was speaking exclusively of the United States? Our people doesn't mean only those who live in Seacaucus. Only you would assume that it does.

Like it or not, the only reason people starve and go uneducated is because of bad government. Zimbabwe is the poster child for taking a functioning society that could feed not only itself, but also countries around it.... until Mugabe crippled it in the name of "land reform". Then there's NK, and Sudan. I presume you are talking about them? Sadly, it is people like you selling a fantasy bill of goods that ruins lives.

Now then back to the "infrastructure" you claimed would make everything hunky-dory. What might that be? Or are you just promising something unattainable to the rubes?

I really hope Mr. Neiwert gets a chance to address this excellent excellent post that Glenn has written. I'm not currently at a point where I could blog about such matters to the extent that I'd like, but what we have here is something very troubling.

If you look at Paxton's book on fascism he notes that more than a philosophy fascism was a feeling. And that it foundation was laid by a set of emotional lava that led to mass hysteria and the notion that democracy had failed to protect the nation from ruin. In Walter's Laquer's book on the same subject he notes that xenophobia is a breeding ground for fascism.

What I've been noticing is that there is an increased buzz that Europe is in decay and will soon by overrun (i.e. outbred) by Muslims. For exmaple

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/03/post-human.html

In that post Mark Steyn says that Europe is becoming "post-human" and then Mark Noon follows up by saying that Europe must convert to Judeo-Christianity (aka fundamentalist Christian) or die.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/02/cull-them-all.html

In that one Steyn suggests the need to "cull" Muslims from Europe.

NOw in this post you've got the same fascist aesthitic from Philips about London being overun by Muslims but on top of that you've got the reality revision from a white supremacist that want to track Mosque attivities.

Thanks Realname. You have so totally like, gotten the best of me. How could I have ever possibly speculated that the US was planning an attack against Iran that hasn't come yet.

The substance of your argument is beyond question. I bow to you and your laser like wit. You responded to the questions put to you by the lower life forms of Unclaimed Territory (especially the lower life form of myself) with such penetrating wisdom and forethought, and don't forget Serious Substance, that I must just accept your superior thought processes.

I'm thinking that we should all petition Glenn to write a long and detailed rebuttal to the laundry list of facts that you have used to discredit Hersh's articles...and if he can't overcome your (what I consider to be absolutely perfect) arguments as to why we're not currently bombing the source of all evil in the world then he should allow you to guest post...hell that's not enough exposure for your sound reasoning...Salon should give you a forum on their front page, so you can then show us lower life forms just how prescient you are.

This just proves the quasi-religious nature of conservative belief. Even their own prophet--GWB--has deserted them, but they still hold to the True Faith. The closest parallel to this that I can think of is the Sabbatean Jews who still insisted that Sabbatai Zevi was the Messiah even after he himself gave up and converted to Islam.

The long-sought wmd's are hidden where only a proctologist can find them: up Dick Cheney's ample arse. Hi there, Scootie the Cootie. Havin' fun at those Klan meetings? Have a lovely day.

And there is only blue sky. A beautiful thought of wow, for each grey cloud, and cumulus you!

...to you all...wow... Inspiration, sillies, is inside you. Right. We inter are banging-banging, at a key-bar. Shucks!

I'd do a gig like this in a 'nice' horse-barn, and not ever ask about what's going on behind closed doors. After ceocon's 'shad-up.' I am behind. yikes.

We drink from each other's wine cup lips. Shooter, and other Elmo's, gaucho's, commie's, Marxist bull-crap shooter-kind, BC-time keepers. 'Um rt-wing sore elbow's dudes...gads. Suez will go blind and stay blind forever? Why?

Sow peas and get in the field! Hey, cranky's, Yule...get data camel joe-gig-butt out of the mouth. Where are all the grey cloud smoke originating from? Blue sky!

I feel like a stinky old goat smoking an Havana Cuban, illegal, home-rolled cigar? Goats that don't smoke in a flower bed, are lovable. gads, I'm outta my computer-bunk-bed, Now.