I was going to ignore this one (there is food at BAUT! ) but then I didn't watch the video that Mugs linked, but I remember watching footage of Kinison doing that bit, not on Letterman though IIRC.

Kinison was referring to people who live in famine areas, starving. The (shouted of course) comment was go live where the food is. It was funny, we laughed, but I remember shaking my head at the time, thinking "It's good to be reminded that there's a reason comedians don't run the world." (hold it down)

In general, people who live in famine areas, didn't journey there to live. The famine came to them. I was reminded, again, of this, when half the counties in our state of North Carolina went into critical drought stages this past year. At one point our county, with hundreds of thousands of people, had less than thirty days worth of water. The lakes were trickles of water. If it hadn't rained heavily (it did) what would we have done with those thousands (well, millions actually) of people? What if the drought had continued and this area turned into a 21st century dust bowl? Kinison (RIP) would have been yelling "go where the water is, you idiots!"

The moral of this post? Don't over-react.