Is Free Lunch Program a Wonderful Idea or Another Wasteful Program?

..... gonna make it easy for you .... one of 2 taxes ... either eliminate the IRS and institute a National Sales Tax

or go to a Flat Income Tax

Go ahead, tell me how it hurts only the poor or the children.

Subsidy to oil company .... you're correct, we should all get a Oil Royalty as in Alaska ... ooppss, you wouldn't like that, Palin's State does that

Congress ... screw 'em, and the guy your Dream Prez touts has the method ....

Warren Buffet [sic] is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.

Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.





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Exactly. This is what happens when we allow liberals to continue their crusade in pushing everyone out of the workforce and onto the government teat. If we don't stop all of these ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS that have FAILED for decades than America is done. We the taxpayers cannot continue to carry these lazy irresponsible freeloaders on our backs. Sooner or later we too run out of money. These parents who send their children to school without breakfast is mostly out of laziness. Investigations need to start happening. These parents who depend on others to do what they as parents should be doing need a reality check.

1. If you cannot take care of what you produce than you need not produce it (Children.)

2. If you're down and out we'll be more than happy to help you with a Hand Up vs a hand out so that they the parents can get back on track in taking care of their responsibilities.

3. Those who are receiving free breakfasts and lunches 18 and under and who come from families who have money but send their kids over for freebies need to pay a fine of at least $5000.00 and also have to do 200+ hours of community service.

I volunteer an X amount of hours serving food at shelters and raising money for those in need in our community but I get a little irritated when I see these so called people coming in with 4 to 6 children and many times another baby on the way with cell phones, their nails done and lots of nice jewelry. The money they spend on unnecessary BS vs spending that money on feeding their children raises a red flag with me.

We need to stop enabling those who can work by making them uncomfortable in their poverty.

Ben Franklin said this:


“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

― Benjamin Franklin

I don't really think we disagree so much - I am all for parental responsibility..I work everyday..and had to go back to work when my son was only 3 mths old..he's 21 - I've always worked..I think able bodied people should work..and I think if you have a child it's a blessing and it's a big responsibility...and it should be something that a parent does lovingly and willingly...but - unfortunately - things aren't so black and white..people aren't just good or bad..some are mentally ill...sometimes men after a divorce go out of their way to make life difficult for their ex wives..and don't care if it hurts the children..some are abusive but their kids are loyal to them..relationships are complicated..there are nothing but shades gray.
I think rather than to do away with a free lunch program...because we know that the children actually see that food and the parents can't abuse it...the food stamp program should be made to be more fraud proof..maybe put the users photo on their card so that they can't sell their food stamps...that would be easy enough. maybe food banks should be for laid off people or people who have exhausted their unemployment and can't find work..or the working poor rather than to also help people on food stamps. The same people get help compounded by help..and others who have suffered a temporary set back..get nothing and need it more.
I think there should be work programs for people on welfare..there is a cycle of dependence..I believe that..and the only way to break that is to force a person to work for their benefits...it's good for the parent and it's good for the child to see that you have to get up every morning and earn what you get..