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January 19, 2011 07:58 PM UTC
27 Comments
Can’t have the the ag producer subsidies cut, so we gotta cut somewhere.
Seriously though. That free/reduced lunch is the only meal many low-income children eat all day during parts of the school year.
Watch them block school lunch funding, then complain when low-income students’ standardized testing scores aren’t rising. As Scott Adams might say, the malnourishment will continue until test scores improve!
We just cant afford to prevent childhood malnutrition anymore. Sorry.
But don’t worry, the streetlights are back on in Colorado Springs!
I live in Colorado Springs, and I still see over half of the street lights out at night. Was this recent?
but they can’t afford the bulbs.
start up some charities to feed poor starving American children.
“Forget the monthly check, just go buy the kid a sack of groceries!”
There’s more than enough money to feed starving kids.
Those kids aren’t creating jobs!
Off hand, what kind of “jobs” are the bull owners and the bulls thinking about?
I think they have machines for that!
My 2 year old is very detailed in his anatomical knowledge, and knows where milk comes from. He sees the cow jumping over the moon in “Goodnight Moon” and says “Cow Udder!”
We got a 2011 safari calendar with a male giraffe on the cover in all his dangly glory, so of course he exclaimed “Giraffe Udder!”
Take him to Hooters.
He’ll love it.
is all about “jobs, jobs, jobs.”
Colorado GOP – putting bull semen before feeding poor children.
“Colorado GOP prefers bull semen over poor children … video at 10.”
Republican 2012 campaign message.
As you all know, I am not a Republican, and haven’t been for years. I am also not a “starve the kids” person and recognize the value of having breakfast for poor kids. However, based upon the tweet from the paper which shall not be named, it seems like to me that the cost of this to a poor child is $10 per year. That’s essentially a $10 co-pay for nine month’s of breakfast. I just don’t see the big deal, especially when the budget is like it is.
Seriously. I think the hardest bit is that most people on the food program have more than one kid. If they’d been asking for $.50 a week or something all along, maybe. But asking a family close to homelessness to come up with $40 is going to increase the line at the Catholic Charities eviction help.
I think, even with the budget like this, that these aren’t the people to jerk around.
Tell you what, I’ll donate $1K to this program if 29 of my fellow posters will. It’s just that big of a deal. Not to me really, but to these kids.
I think many of us who are privileged enough to have food on our plates every day have a hard time empathizing with people who can barely feed their children, but as progressive cowgirl pointed out above, these two meals are all that some of these kids eat in a day.
Not only that, but the meals these kids are eating are barely nutritious. In the morning they might get some powdered eggs and a milk carton, and at lunch they get a hamburger or a tiny bowl of mac & cheese. But I guess when middle class families are cutting down their restaurant trips from three nights a week to maybe one night a week, it’s kind of hard to understand that kind of poverty.
Sure, it’s a worthy program we should support–and I do. That’s why I have joined this shared endeavor called government. Lambert and his ilk are an embarrassment to the species.
What priorities our representative show, bonuses to associates, but nothing for the kids!
Have they forgotten that we are still in a recession, many people/families are still homeless, unemployed, etc. thus how do they expect these children to eat, as yes many receive their only meals at SCHOOL. When you are unemployed, what is a parent supposed to do, allow your children to starve while the Ed. Boards receives bonueses totally over $100,000. Wow imagine how many hungry kids could have been fed with those unnecessary bonuses!
And BTW: state reps, did you not see or abide by the NEW LAW, requiring schools to provide healthier foods, written primarily to provide healthier food to the hungry kids. (yes, I was in WA. DC with Chefs Move to Schools, they were not?) SO are you now purposedly ignoring that law. I bet not many reading this know that YOU, are part of forcing smaller rural districts to pay more for the same food that larger districts pay.
Therefore, We can only pray for these ignorant (knowing better but looking the other way) representatives that they do not get run over by RTD, or AMTRAK, leave their spouse struggling to pay off depts and med bills, and leave their children fending on a street for food, or robbing a store to gain that .30 cents per day for the priviledge to eat and become prepared for being educated in the day ahead!!
You stated personal responsibility, but don’t you have a legal responsibility in accordance with the new Nutritional Law/bill?
poor people actually exist.
I have certainly met suburbanites of that opinion and Lambert’s comments about personal responsibility seem to reflect that sentiment.