I also doubt she’s visited or lived in some of the poorer neighborhoods in Chicago where the supermarket chains intentionally overprice every item and the only alternative is shopping at a 7/11, which is even more expensive. It might give her some insight to the many ways that society is steeply slanted against the poor.

She also, I’m sure, hasn’t seen the people living in Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago, sleeping in boxes when they aren’t run off by the police, and foraging through garbage dumpsters for a square meal. Good Republican Davis might ask why they aren’t going to the local shelters and charities — well, that’s because they are raped and robbed at such places, when the shelters aren’t overflowing and turning folks away, which most of them have been the past four years. Lining up at the various food pantries doesn’t work either — they run out of food quickly and, aside from that, much of their foodstuffs are meant to be cooked on top of or in a stove — people living in cardboard boxes don’t have kitchens.

Davis has also not hit bottom in her life, as I did nearly forty years ago when I had only an onion cooked in a toaster oven for dinner, and no prospects for the immediate future. (But I was fortunate; my friends and family came through for me. Most poor people only know and are related to folks just as poor as they are.)

I could go on with sad stories of this sort that are shameful to tell in a nation as rich as we are, but what’s the point? The Cynthia Davis’ of the world will only ‘get it’ when they’re broke and hungry, and sometimes not even then. Their heads are made of concrete, impervious to any reality that contradicts their sanctimonius selfishness.

I wonder what excuse she has ready for the Jesus she claims to believe in so fervently?

http://momocrats.typepad.com/momocrats/2009/06/cynthia-davis-is-right-hunger-is-a-motivator.html