Obesity Causes Hunger Causes Obesity
[This letter was published in the New York Post]
It seems as if the public relations industry promotes crises to benefit the human services industry. ("GOTHAM'S LATEST NON-CRISIS," Editorial, New York Post, December 30, 2006) OMG there is hunger. We need more social workers. OMG there is obesity. We need more counselors.
The Wizard of Oz convinced the Mayor of New York (a potential candidate for president?) to fight obesity and hunger at the same time. Does it get any better than this? It's not just the legislature that gets so many contributions from the human services corporations.
Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
GOTHAM'S LATEST NON-CRISIS
Editorial New York Post
December 30, 2006
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Food-pantry photo-ops are a holiday cliché for most politicians - and certainly there has been no shortage of such officials around town lately, helping hand out food to poor folks. But surely they know quite well - or they should - that there is no hunger crisis in New York City. None whatsoever.
Now, rank-and-file New Yorkers can be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the messages from City Hall these days. For starters, outgoing Human Resources Administration Commissioner Verna Eggleston, for the time being the city's top welfare official, recently bemoaned the fact that many HRA employees used soup kitchens and food stamps.
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2 comments:
Wow; was that you in the Post? Spoken like someone who truly has no idea how hunger and obesity work. Do some research. And human service organizations giving money to politicians? It's the other way around, buddy.
Thank you for your comment. You may want to look at the Massachusetts state Office of Campaign and Political Finance. You can learn how much human services corporations, drug companies, doctors and academic researchers give to politicians.
http://www.mass.gov/ocpf/
Each state has its own data available for scrutiny, as well as the US government. Newspapers and web sites for government watchdogs are other good sources.
In New York State the human services industry is the largest contributor to political campaigns.
I understand why you choose to remain anonymous. You cannot be held accountable for your errors that way.
Diogenes
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