Is Free Lunch Program a Wonderful Idea or Another Wasteful Program?
Chris D
2012/07/05 17:00:00
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The free lunch program that is supposed to feed kids in need is really just a free lunch for anyone who shows up. Do you think it's a waste of tax payers' money?
FOXNEWS.COM reports:
FOXNEWS.COM reports:
Every summer across the country, more than 3 million children eat for free at more than 30,000 sites, from schools to recreation centers to migrant worker camps. It's a valuable resource for families who are struggling -- but, critics say, a convenient freebie for those who aren't.
Read More: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/05/taxpaye...
Top Opinion
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Nick 2012/07/05 18:28:41Free lunch, please!
These "Free Lunches" are *NOT* free, the money is confiscated from the taxPAYERS to pay for these programs.
The Libtard/Progressives haven't advanced past the early 60s.
And encouraging people to to be comfortable in their poverty, is the best was to assure they *STAY THERE* . . . and to continue to voting Democrat.
I am one of those "Not everybody was born with a silver spoon in their mouth."
And my aunt didn't ask to get cancer, my cousin didn't ask to get rundown and killed at her bus stop, because a dumbass was texting while driving, that's just called *LIFE*.
You state: “but now that they are old enough to go to school, we have to understand that education and nutrition go hand in hand.”
Soup is nutritious, and soup is easier, and cheaper to produce.
And isn't soup. Better than a child being hungry?
You state: “I believe that most of the complaints originate from school officials and education employees, who do not like life. and don't like their jobs, and have allowed themselves to become so stressed out. that they cannot deal with people in general.”
I believe you're *RIGHT*! Because Liberal ideology seldom “works as advertised”.
You state: “and no, we do not make people comfortable in their own poverty.”
Sorry, but you're wrong.
More and more States are going to some form of “Food Card”, in order to “eliminate the stigma shame of using food stamps”. (What *SHOULD* happen, when you pay with food stamps or equivalent, a horn sounds and a large “FOOD STAMP” light flashes over your register.)
Read other people's posts on this very topic, they are so concerned that the welfare recipient children get the same food as thos...
And my aunt didn't ask to get cancer, my cousin didn't ask to get rundown and killed at her bus stop, because a dumbass was texting while driving, that's just called *LIFE*.
You state: “but now that they are old enough to go to school, we have to understand that education and nutrition go hand in hand.”
Soup is nutritious, and soup is easier, and cheaper to produce.
And isn't soup. Better than a child being hungry?
You state: “I believe that most of the complaints originate from school officials and education employees, who do not like life. and don't like their jobs, and have allowed themselves to become so stressed out. that they cannot deal with people in general.”
I believe you're *RIGHT*! Because Liberal ideology seldom “works as advertised”.
You state: “and no, we do not make people comfortable in their own poverty.”
Sorry, but you're wrong.
More and more States are going to some form of “Food Card”, in order to “eliminate the stigma shame of using food stamps”. (What *SHOULD* happen, when you pay with food stamps or equivalent, a horn sounds and a large “FOOD STAMP” light flashes over your register.)
Read other people's posts on this very topic, they are so concerned that the welfare recipient children get the same food as those who have to *PAY* for their lunches. (Why should the ones getting *FREE LUNCHES* get the same as those who pay, other than to make them comfortable in that station?)
You state: “if there is a job to be done, we assist in providing the tools to do the job with for a job worth doing is worth doing well.”
That's correct.
But has virtually nothing to do with this subject as far as I see.
Abortion Price List
Ultrasound $100.00 (This fee is subtracted from the abortion fee)
6-11 weeks $500.00 16 weeks $950.00
12 weeks $550.00 17 weeks $1100.00
13 weeks $650.00 18 weeks $1400.00
14 weeks $750.00 19 weeks $1600.00
15 weeks $850.00
EDIT: This was a program for the school children, not just anyone who showed up.
The parents are the real "heartless a-holes".
If they want more "free food" programs "for the children" start a special tax for those who "believe in it" . . . like *YOU*.
I'd be for a 25% maybe even a 50% tax on all those who support such programs, in order to finance the programs.
That why I'm against more freeloader programs.
Oh wait. The people don't ACTUALLY matter so long as the conservatives "win" this non existent competition. I forgot. My bad. -______-
Nobody makes changes without a reason to change.
The do-gooders seek to make the poors' poverty "acceptable" to them and this only kills the incentive to better their lot in life. (How many other countries, is obesity a sign of poverty?)
I say make jobs digging ditches for the able-bodied to receive a welfare check.
No work, no pay.
Soup line to feed those families are physically able, but don't work.
I say soup lines for those children in school that can't afford to bring their own lunches.
After all: Isn't soup, better than the children being hungry?
Isn't soup better than the child going hungry?
Time to quit taking the money of those who work, to give to those who don't; and do so in a way that they are satisfied to be there, thus killing their drive to better themselves.
You can give all the sob stories you like, but I have *NEVER* been unable to find a job, and there has *NEVER* been anything "beneath me" to do.
Have you heard Obama state that the Illegals are only doing the jobs Americans won't do?
That statement says that there *ARE JOBS AVAILABLE* to people willing to do them.
And I know of a lot of people that are in the same boat. They reason people hire the Illegals is because the work for cheap. And as far as Obama saying that illegals are doing the jobs Americans wont do, just makes it easier for them because he appovers of it. Which i feel is UnAmerican.
But with personal choices, come limits to opportunity.
Okay, so why not soup lines for the poor children in schools?
Isn't soup better than the child going hungry?
I'm *STUNNED* that you are spending over $6.50 per child for lunches!
I make meals that feed *the whole family* for just a couple dollars more.
Nobody makes changes without a *REASON* to change; making poverty "acceptable" only encourages those who are there to stay there.
You state: "And as far as my choice to not speek Spanish we are in American so if I or any one who as experice should get an open position over an illegal."
At no point did I say that I disagreed, only with choices, come limits.
The more self-imposed limits, the fewer your options.
Why do you feel that you are entitled to *MY* money?
What have is the "origin of debt" that entitles you to *MY* money? ("Origin of debt": You work X hours for an agreed upon price. Or, I break your window, your broken window by me, is the reason I owe you.)
Yes, there are abusers of the system. But does that really make it worth it to make children who need it go hungry? This is the type of place tax money SHOULD be going-- back to the people.
"she's entitled to have food to eat and air to breath and water to drink."
Does someone's effort or money produce that food?
Then *NO* she is *NOT*entitled to it!
It is *WRONG* to take by force, the money those who work make, to give to those who don't work.
If the children in school are hungry: put in soup lines for those children who are poor.
That way they won't be hungry.
Why does the children of the willfully non-productive poor, need to receive the same as the children of the productive?
No one makes changes without an incentive to change.