During this morning’s CSPAN3 telecast of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee’s interrogation of the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch merger of 2008, Rep, Kucinich (D-OH) began his closing comments with the statement that 46 million Americans are now hungry.
In the last six months, we have had it pounded into our heads that 46 million Americans lack the insurance (i.e. permission) to obtain health care.
Part of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide’s definition of that war crime reads: “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part…”
And so it begins.