Area woman named worst person in the world
Cynthia Davis enjoying what surely is a rare restaurant meal (2001 Post-Dispatch photo by David Carson).
Thanks, in part, to a recent Post-Dispatch editorial, Missouri state Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O’Fallon, was the subject of Keith Olbermann’s scorn this week on his “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” show on MSNBC. In fact, he named her the World’s Worst Person – twice.
Watch the clips here and here.
She was ridiculed both in our editorial and by Olbermann for her condescending remarks about child hunger in a newsletter. One of her helpful comments was that “hunger can be a positive motivator.”
She’s right. Hunger for political relevance can motivate a vapid suburbanite (who is supported by taxpayers) to make astonishingly inappropriate and inaccurate remarks about poverty and families. Read her newsletter here.
Here’s one “tidbit” from Ms. Davis that was not included in the editorial or on Olbermann’s “Countdown” show:
“It really is all about increasing government spending, which means an increase in taxes for us to buy more free lunches and breakfasts. Parents get the same food stamp allotment regardless of how many extra meals are being provided to their children over the summer. This equates to an increase in taxpayer funded food programs.”
Likewise, parents who receive “food stamps” (now called “benefits” from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) also do not get an increase in their allotment when their children are on summer (or any other) break from school, which means that the same SNAP benefit allocation may have to provide one or two more meals per day per child.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service information sheet on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program:
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49 percent of all participants are children (18 or younger), and 61 percent of them live in single-parent households.
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52 percent of SNAP households include children.
So, is Cynthia Davis worthy of Olbermann’s World’s Worst Person title?
(By the way, we do have a response from Ms. Davis. We’re going to run it on the oped page next week.)
Jamie Riley is the P-D letters editor and gatekeeper of the letters blog. Before joining the editorial page in May 2005, she was a reporter and page designer. Jamie lives in University City with her husband, Charles, daughter, Elise, and the world's best Jack Russell terrier, Logan, better known as Stinky. 
I see the PD is taking it’s marching orders from the Huffington Post, dailykos and other lefty machines…again (not really a big surprise).
Now, Now, to all those good christians out there: Remember “What would Jesus do?” in feeding hungry children. Just don’t say it, live it. I imagine this representative cloaks herself in faith.
Worst President Ever… You’re hilariously misinformed. People’s rightful sustenance has been stolen from them in the form of private property in land. No one made the land — it was given to everyone. Now, whether that came to be via God or just chance can be debated until the cows come home. What gives someone the moral and legal right to possess something is that they made the item in question (through their labor, talent, and/or knowledge) or that they purchased the item from someone else who did so, either by currency or trade of labor. Once again — and please try to think about this, but don’t go so far as to scorch any hairs on your head — NO ONE MADE THE LAND. The wealth of land (increased valuation) in the main comes from population growth and the bustling community that results from it. Therefore, much of what the general population contributes that increases the value of that land has been taken from it; the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the supposed “landowner.” From the start, private property in land was theft. Nearly all of it was established either through bloodshed or threatened bloodshed, if it happened that someone tried to take it from the person who first laid claim to it. Since all man-made items come from the land or natural resources in some manner (i.e., water, lumber, crude oil, air, various other gases and elements) — and though distortive techniques may sometimes be used to produce them, such as intensely compressing and/or heating an element or elements to make something not available through the natural world — all man-made items have a history of bloodshed behind them, including this very computer I’m typing on right now. Remember the movie “2001?” Do you remember when the one man-ape pummeled the other ape to death with the bone of the tapir, to establish possession of the watering hole? Symbolically, that act was the institution of private property in land. And our legal system has protected the supposed “right” of self-centered apes to own private property in land to this day.
Correction: “…all man-made items have a history of `violence’ behind them, including this very computer I’m typing on right now.”
FTPD: I’ll just note on of a few “inaccuaracies”. Ms. Davis contends that Churches can handle the giving of food just fine. What Ms. Davis somehow hasn’t learned yet even as a Chairperson over a committee that deals with these issues is that Churches and non-profits are the ones asking for more money to fund their programs. YOu don’t go down to City Hall to get your free meal, you go to your local Church most of the time and surprise, surprise churh-goers wallets are not as fat and generous as they used to be.
And all of you people with your brother’s cousins’ room-mate hearsay stories….let’s see some names. My gosh, if half of your school is fraudulently getting reduced or free meals and you’re not coming forward you are just as much a part of the problem.
I expect all of you to request of your pastor that they no longer except govt money to help the less fortunate and be sure to share with them whatever you’ve wrote here today.
I hope you all enjoy your lunch.
Keith Olbermann is a liar and a hater. All of youthat scream daily about Ruch and Hannity you have the mirror twin in Keith Olbermann.
Can our wonderfully objective moderator please delete EJ’s post for being off topic?
Mike… My post relates to WPE’s post. The post made reference to food. I made reference to the fruit of people’s labor, the bounty of the land and natural world. If you’ve got a problem with the post, argue against it. Don’t choose the lazy way out.
To sum up: WPE’s statement, `Btw…it’s not the government’s duty to provide food to people,’ is not entirely true. Food and the other bounties of the land have been stolen from the general community through the institution of private property in land. No one should own the land; they should pay a user’s fee in the form of a single-tax system.
Hogan - here is a riddle for you:
John Edwards + one video photographer = sex video
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/28/2009-06-28_aides_tale_of_john_edwards_sex_tape.html