5 Things That Make Summertime AwesomeAnd At Least 1 Thing That Doesn'tUnity Consciousness #291

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According to Kid President, there are 5 things that make summertime awesome.

Kid President also lists at least one thing that is not awesome at all – child hunger.
In America alone, 21,000,000 kids receive free or reduced meals at school.

21,000,000 x 2 meals per day x 90 days = 3,780,000,000 meals. That's approximately 4 billion meals every 90 days.
Remember, this is just in the United States.

Conagra Foods is donating $111,000 towards feeding people.
Conagra is donating 11.1 cents for every watch, like or share of the Kid President video. (Up to 1,000,000)

11.1 cents x 3,780,000 = $419,580,000. $420 million is what it takes to feed 21 million children, 2 meals a day for 90 days at 11.1 cents per meal.

My guess is that most of us are spending more than 11.1 cents on a meal, yet somehow Feeding America says they can do it. The local food bank model sounds like a good one to setup to replace the food system in America, unless preserving the capitalistic greedy business model is a better way to live.

How much money are Americans spending in grocery stores? If each of the 300 million remaining Americans spent 50 cents per meal, three times a day for 365 days, that comes out to $164 billion spent in just grocery stores for food. This is $548 per person per year. Now we know this estimate is way too low.

There are so many additional ways to look at this, one is that Israel is given over $1 billion dollars per year by America. Also, the “too big to fail banks” were given amounts that make $1billion look like pocket change. There are so many other ways money is misused by America which clearly shows what many Americans think about a lot of children's physical hunger and what is awesome.

Even Kid President has sense enough to ask, "Aren't we on the same team?"

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