"By the way, no one in America (besides anorexic rich girls) is starving."

This absolutely not true, some students only meal of the day comes in school with reduced or free lunch. Not every poor kid is accustomed to nothing but what McDonald's serves.

>If three wheels have their brakes stuck, I turn the car off. I'm not going anywhere and I might as well save gas.

So you're suggesting we abandon schooling altogether, and just let all those kids wander around unable to read?

>Gluttony is the only food-related problem faced by the poor, starvation hasn't existed for a while.

Would it were so.