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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... “Nationwide, nearly half of all active-duty military families experienced food insecurity in 2025– more than double the rate in 2023. The ASYMCA’s food distribution programs, which serve more than 50 military installations, saw a 23% jump in demand last year.”

“.. food insecurity among active-duty troops has been a problem for decades - military pay is insufficient for many enlisted families - The Gates Commission – appointed by President Richard Nixon in 1969 highlighted the “inequity” of military pay, compared with civilian wages”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... “Nationwide, nearly half of all active-duty military families experienced food insecurity in 2025– more than double the rate in 2023. The ASYMCA’s food distribution programs, which serve more than 50 military installations, saw a 23% jump in demand last year.”

- As one comparison of relative Childhood Poverty amongst industrialized countries: - Spain has the worse statistic; USA is a close second:

As a famous American writer once said: “When Fascism comes to America, it will be carrying a cross and wrapped in the American Flag!”

* Not so shocking: - Prisons and workhouses for centuries were intended to be as self-supporting as possible - The alternative to Self-supporting Prisons: # DEATH # (Britain had over 220 “minor crimes” eligible for Death) * Penitence or Correction only began in the first half of the 19th Century

1) In Colonial New England, the majority of their exports went to Slave Plantations 2) New England’s wealth from the Slave Trade built the first US Industrial Factory (In Rhode Island 1793) and the largest factory near Boston in 1812 3) AMERICAN transport of slaves began with MASSACHUSETTS, in 1643

* Americans COULD walk and chew gum at the same time? - These nations enable RESPONSIBLE people to own guns AND minimize senseless Gun Violence: 1) Switzerland 2) Czech Republic 3) Norway 4) Finland * Why not in America?