Posted on 06/18/2010 6:52:01 AM PDT by relictele
More children in the Dayton area and Ohio are relying on free summer meal programs.
In 2009, schools and community groups in Montgomery County served 510,496 free summer meals, a 20 percent increase since 2007, according to the Ohio Department of Education.
Statewide, schools and community groups last year served 3.56 million free summer meals, an increase of 10 percent from 2008 and 17 percent from 2007, according to federal data.
Food service officials expect the numbers to be even higher this year.
Money is tight in the home of Amanda Gyldholm, a 32-year-old single mother of four who is taking classes for massage therapy and works at her college’s library.
Gyldholm is grateful that Mad River Local Schools offers a free summer lunch program.
Without the program, “I’d have to do my best to make my money stretch further,” Gyldholm said. “It would be cold sandwiches every day.”
Gee. Who would have guessed that if you provide something for free, you increase demand? What gets me about this is that grocery stores and fast food places are taxed, and the money is used to provide them with competition at a “lower” price.
Mandy gets her massage therapy degree ... now what?
Is there a viable market in Dayton for massage therapy?
This is just more system hustling, IMO.
How many packs a day do you smoke? How much do you drink? Do you have cell phones? (Bad question - the gov provides those now.) How much is your cable bill? Do the father(s) contribute anything? Have you tried to get them to, or would that be too much work?
How often does she get manicures and pedicures? BTW - nothing wrong with cold sandwiches. We carried baloney sandwiches (tunafish on Fridays) to school every darned day.
In re-reading my post I should avoided the word ‘planning.’
Clearly there is no planning whatsoever occurring.
The horror of cold sandwiches. I suppose my typical lunch is a violation of human rights. I now understand the right to a hot lunch.
must be nice to get a free lunch, I pack leftovers for lunch, that I eat while I work through lunch... to pay for those free lunches...
The local food pantries always bewail any perceived shortcomings in food donations by the citizenry. They state that whenever the pantries are filled with food, people come and take the food no matter how much they try to keep the pantry filled. Imagine that, people taking FREE!!! food.
According to the alarmists, this "proves" that any shortfalls of food donations will result in thousands of starving unfortunates. Apparently, they don't realize that if there's something offered for free, many people who don't necessarily need the free thing will take it anyway. It's not "if I build it, they will come" but "if I give it away, they will come."
How about a Constitutional Amendment banning the use of the word “free” and instead mandating the use of “taxpayer-subsidized?”
When I read about the schools providing free lunches and free breakfasts, I always wonder whether those receiving food stamps are docked a buck or two per day for each kid.
I also cringe when I see “free lunch.” Someone is paying for them. The government cannot give something to Peter without taking dollars from everyone.
Yes cold sandwiches are a travesty that require 0bama to appoint a czar and immediate U.N. intervention.
Only a hate filled nation such as the U.S. forces cold sandwiches on their people.
So if they are getting free lunches do they get less in food stamps? (HAHAHAHAHA, I crack myself up!)
Dang, you beat me to it.
BTW - nothing wrong with cold sandwiches. We carried baloney sandwiches (tunafish on Fridays) to school every darned day.”””
Boy! You guys lived high on the hog!!
4 kids in my family & we went thru a loaf of bread every day for sandwiches-——Peanut Butter & Jelly. Only think that changed was the flavor of the jelly. Ate the same thing all thru high school. The only itme we could get at school was access to the machine that dispensed the small carton of milk for a nickel.
PB & J=== 4 kids who all went on in life to be self- employed, 3 with employees. One had over 60 employees in his company. None of those 4 kids have ever been arrested, spent time in jail, or had any criminal problems of any kind.
WTH?! I eat cold sandwiches every day of my life. What's wrong with them? These people make me want to scream.
Only a hate filled nation such as the U.S. forces cold sandwiches on their people.
Shhhhh - don't mention cold cereal.
Question:
How are food stamps calculated??
IF a ‘welfare family’ has 3 kids—aged 8 9 10—I want to know how they figure the food stamps.
Say 1 adult & 3 kids, aged as above. That is 4 people, 3 meals a day, 7 days a week, 30 days a month. That equals 360 meals for a 30 day month. That is over 4380 meals a year in calculating food stamps. (12 x 365)
Now-—the kids are in school 180 days a year & get free lunches there.....that adds up to 540 meals for those 3 kids that are NOT served at home. Some schools serve breakfast, also & have for years. Another 540 meals??
Since the welfare system & the school district systems don’t seem to inter-communicate any more than any other government program, how confident should any of us be that there is some serious double dipping going on?
Many schools have been feeding the ‘poor kids’ breakfast for years in the cafeteria (Los Angeles)...& now I am hearing noises about feeding the kids ‘dinner’ before they go home because they are hungry at home.
Just exactly how many meals are the taxpayers getting to pay for?
How are food stamps calculated & how much adjustment is made for kids in school??????
NO wonder these kids which are ‘poor’ are fat??
It’s always leftovers and cold sandwiches for me. I consider the once a week can of sardines a real treat.
Wife does PB on sliced apple. I’m cheap but I can’t handle that.
We had a piece of cheese between 2 pieces of bread, with a squirt of mustard. I was so jealous of the kids who had bologna sandwiches.
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