The Herald Leader has a story with this headline:

One in five Kentucky kids faces hunger. Congress should not make that worse.

A complaint about the headline will follow soon, but the top of the opinion piece by Melissa McDonald, Executive Director of Feeding Kentucky, says:

In Kentucky more than 753,000 residents, or one-in-six, face hunger. They often don’t know where and when their next meal will be. That sobering statistic is felt daily across the Commonwealth — from families forced to choose between groceries and rent to schools struggling to meet students’ basic needs.

Food banks and our partners across the state are doing all we can to provide millions of meals annually and coordinate critical emergency support — but we can’t do it alone, and we certainly can’t do it with policy that sends us backward.

But that’s just what’s happening, and hungry Kentuckians will pay the price.

The House Committee on Agriculture has proposed a plan that would quietly shift the burden and worsen the problem. If passed, the Kentucky budget would be responsible for funding over $150 million annually by 2028 just to maintain current benefit levels.

With food insecurity projected to rise, that cost will likely increase even more. We’re sure federal and state governments will jostle for who is to blame — but the bottom line is simple: fewer Kentuckians will be able to eat. And that’s why we’re pushing back.

First of all, there’s no need to “jostle for who is to blame.” The answer is Republicans. Specifically MAGAts who in their cold shriveled hearts believe that starving poor people builds character. More specifically, every Kentucky congressional Republicans who’s too cowardly to hold town meetings and listen to the suffering of their constituents.

Second of all, the headline says “Congress should not make that worse.” Again, no need to “jostle for who is to blame.” It has been and always will be the Republican Party that has made things worse for loyal constituents who keep voting for them because they’ve been brainwashed into believing that the pain will be inflicted on “those people,” and then they realize too late that they are “those people.”

Others who signed the column include: Charles Dennis, Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland Food Bank; Mike Halligan, God’s Pantry Food Bank; Vincent James, Dare to Care Food Bank; Angela Jewell, PADD; Cynthia Kirkhart, Facing Hunger Food Bank; Zac Heronemus, Tri-State Food Bank, and Kurt Reiber, Freestore Food Bank.

I make monthly donations to the Dare to Care Food Bank, but I have to say that when columns like this are written, instead of being mealy mouthed about who’s to blame, just deal with reality and say, “the MAGA focused GOP is a death cult, and they want you to die.”