Tim: That “30 million Americans going hungry” has been a feature of Left
propaganda in the US for as long as I can remember. It’s a physical
constant, like the speed of light. Come hell or high water, recession or
boom, welfare enacted or welfare repealed, 30 million Americans are always
hungry. Though, oddly, you hear much less about them in Democratic
administrations….
Perhaps one of the NR office people with access to the big news databases
could tell us when the first report of 30 million Americans being hungry
showed up. I’m willing to bet it was the Nixon administration, at latest…