FEED ME!
Nutrimens Gluto Immodicus, also known as The Socialism Plant
Posted on 08/23/2010 10:52:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
WASHINGTON (Aug. 23) -- Acknowledging that the hunger faced by millions of American students during the summertime is "a catastrophe," the top nutrition official at the U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to experiment with a totally new approach to feeding poor kids during the months they have no access to subsidized meals at school cafeterias.
The idea: issue a seasonal electronic benefits card to families whose children are eligible for free or reduced-price school lunches during the academic year.
In an interview with AOL News, Undersecretary for Food and Nutrition Kevin Concannon said the department has recently asked states to volunteer for a pilot project for the cards during the summer of 2011.
In participating states, the card would complement or replace a patchwork of summer food programs that reach only one in five of the children who qualify for subsidized school meals.
"We want to try it just to see if it can work out," Concannon said.
He expects that benefits would be paid in about the same amounts that the U.S. government pays to reimburse the organizations that run feeding sites during the three-month break.
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How about their effin’ parent(s) use their food stamps for food and feed them?
Send money to the parent? Parent buys booze and smokes, kids stay hungry.
OK. Send food stamps. Parent trades food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar, buys booze and smokes and kids stay hungry.
OK. Give the kids an electronic card just made for ripping off the system.
Great fricking plan!
OK so what is the Government’s definition of hunger? I know there is an official definition.
How about arresting and jailing the parent(s) for not feeding their child. That sure sounds like child neglect, which I believe is a crime...
“issue a seasonal electronic benefits card to families whose children are eligible for free or reduced-price school lunches during the academic year.”
No problem. But be sure to deduct the price of food from the welfare checks than. K?
I do not want, nor believe we should have, another government run food program paid by our taxes.
That said, I find it really appalling that when we talk about welfare and hungry children we have been conditioned by the media and the Government to immediately think of the inner cities, where the abuse of the system runs rampant.
If we turn our attention to places like Appalachia, there are children there who really are hungry and their parents do not get any benefits of Welfare nor do they get any of this politically directed relief.
The problem is they have no political clout and most are of the wrong persuasion. The media reports and the politicians hand out our money to the ones who will band together and vote for them.
” I brown bagged it all through junior and high school.”
I brown bagged it K-9. Mom put in an apple everyday. I now gag at the sight of apples! Dorm food 9-12, which was occasionally very interesting! The school bought a drum of cheap peanut butter, and they tried to sneak it into everything! Ever had mashed spuds with globs of peanut butter in them? Or oatmeal with the same treatment? I was also introduced to mystery meat. Yuck,,,,,
“OK so what is the Government’s definition of hunger? I know there is an official definition.”
It used to be “A Republican is in office”. Not sure what it is now. :)
You’ve got to be frickin kidding me. Hunger is not a problem in the US. Poor kids have a much greater risk of being obese than starving. Unless you live in some remote region or are insane, you will be able to find more than enough to eat each day.
The obesity problem has its genesis in the fact the we started taking fat out of food because of the misguided belief that fat leads to heart disease. Food without fat tastes like cardboard, so we started added sugar. The large increase in sugar in the diet is the problem. This is a 90 minute video that will change your life.
There is this new product coming out for the summer of 2011 that will feed kids everywhere.
It is green and made at the Soylent Corporation, subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.
Ah, good old EITC. Proposed by Nixon, signed into law by Ford and increased under every administration since, without exception.
This is something I’ve never understood. The parent of kids on welfare always get Food Stamps, or whatever the modern equivalent happens to be. They get this money during the school year, as well as in the summer, so they have money to feed their kids. During the school year, their kids get either free, or reduced cost lunches, in addition to the Food Stamps, so they’re getting double benefits.
16 Million starving kids in the USA? That number is preposterous, cooked up nonsense.
Cut the next two Obama vacations scheduled for later this month.
That will feed all of them.
Marble floors and restaurant quality pizza ovens.
578 million dollar new school in LA, California.
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