Posted on 11/11/2011 10:25:05 AM PST by Sopater
In the early 1980’s my wife ran a daycare center out of our house. Back then it was easy. You take people’s kids, watch them for the day, along with a meal, and the parents pay you money. Pretty sweet.
And because of it we would go to these events and get tons of free government cheese in five lb rectangles. It was pretty sweet, actually. Meanwhile, we made about $40,000 a year not counting the childcare income. Not a bad deal.
And I got some of my taxes back through free cheese. :-D
—Nor is there any shame anymore in asking for a handout.—
As a taxpayer, I never see it as a handout. I see it as a refund.
—As a taxpayer myself, I’d prefer to keep my money and spend it how I like. I’ll glady forego a “refund” if I can keep what’s rightfully mine anyway.—
I firmly agree. The “refund” route is the next best thing though. I can only change what I can change. ;-)
pizza at school is grease-laden, the cheese like rubber
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The pizza must have changed since I went.
The pizza we would get wasn’t exactly like regular pizza—it was square and didn’t have much cheese but it was a delicious junk food!
At the snack bar we could get a slice of pizza for .50, an ice cream or little Deb treat for .15 and a milk for .05 or get a cup of soda for .20 in the machines. If you spent well, there would have enough for a pack of wintergreen lifesavers out of the vending machine! YUM!
One could buy the lunch trays but you had to stay in the cafeteria with that and the only good thing on them was the dinner roll. I still believe those were the best dinner rolls I’ve ever eaten! I still compare most all rolls to my memory of those big fluffy, yeasty, thangs!
I don’t recall many getting free lunch when I went to school, though I’m sure some did.
We ate how we wanted to eat and there were few fat kids.
I can still remember when I was a kid eating lunch in the cafeteria.
The food was not very good. Some days there was a main course that was good, but usually not. But it was very cheap food. Hotdogs. Mac&cheese. Tacos. Deep fried bean burrito. Plain hamburgers that were not real meat. Hoagies(sub sandwich) that had balogne, lettuce, pickle, and kraft cheese in them.
At that time you could get a hamburger at burger king for 49cents. If you bought a hamburger at the school cafeteria a la carte(not part of the whole meal), it cost 55cents and was not made of real meat, did not have lettuce or onion, and came on a plain stale bun.
Keep in mind that ALL school lunches are subsidized. Even the kids that pay full price for their school lunch are eating food that is partly paid for via tax dollars. This was the case even when I was a kid. Someone is making money off of taxpayers and not giving the students a good deal. There is no reason why a subsidized meal should be lower quality than a meal at burger king which not only is NOT subsidized, it is a private enterprise that must earn a profit.
I don’t blame people for trying to get school lunches at a discount. They are cheap crappy meals and are overpriced. They are a scam. It might be time to do away with them and require all kids to bring their own food.
We must have eaten the same food...
When I went to public school, it seems the only choice was the lunch tray. When I switched to a private, Catholic highschool, we could choose the items that we wanted and I lived off of french fries, ketchup, and Mt. Dew for lunch for the next three years. ;-)
Hey, its the American Way these days -— Gimme gimme gimme and make the “rich” pay for it. If you don’t get what you want, riot. Conservatives say we live in a “center right” country. B.S. We live in a country where at least half the population thinks its OK to vote themselves $$$$$ out of their neighbors’ wallets.
Wasn’t it great?!
We didn’t have junk food at home and usually ever had a soda on Sundays— when we would gas up for the drive to my Granny’s house for Sunday dinner. So having soda at school was great!
We did have cereal on the weekends, that is all it would last because we would go crazy on it. The constant was eggs, grits and oatmeal.
I think part of the problem is that nowadays most homes are loaded with sodas, pre-pacakaged and processed foods. Homemaking classes need to make a comeback.
If we wanted a meal at home it took work and knowing how to cook, unless mom put it on the table.
See ‘Whywork.org’
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It’s an art in Europe to milk the government and participate in the underground economy. Many countries have a vigorous tax enforcement regime. Recently, in Italy, the tax enforcement agency decided a company had not paid enough in taxes and they simply withdrew the amount from their bank account. (At least, in the US, Treasury would freeze all your accounts until you voluntarily paid or were ordered by a court to pay.) Must be why Obama hired an additional 16,000 IRS employees.
I remember the food at the school cafeteria not being half bad, and they had the best yeast rolls. Had to go to a really GOOD restaurant to get rolls as good as the ones they made at the school cafeteria. The rest of the food was mediocre institutional food - bland, but pretty tasty. Except for the sausage patties, which stank on ice. Sure, we made fun of it, but we ate it.
Nowadays, I swear they have gourmet meals at the cafeteria. They practically have a menu to pick from. When I was kid the choices were “Whole, skim, or chocolate milk or orange drink?”
Seeing all these smiling “chilrens” reminds me when I was young and my dad left my mother with four kids and an infant to raise us without a nickel of support...we had free lunches and I felt deep shame in getting something for free...not all smiles and entitled
You should see the number of parents drving up in new cars to drop their kids off for “free” breakfast and lunch - many of them illegals.
They have no qualms taking everything they can get.
free lunch program participation is tied to per-puil funding. if you can’t fudge the numbers to make everyone look destitute, you lose money and unions can’t expand and get more dues and elect more ‘rats.
“You should see the number of parents drving up in new cars to drop their kids off for “free” breakfast and lunch - many of them illegals.
They have no qualms taking everything they can get.”
They bagged several politicians and bureaucrats here in NJ receiving free lunches while bringing in six figures; all Dems, but not the illegal ones.
When I was a kid in the 1960’s and 70’s our food was wonderful. Almost all homemade. When I was in grade school there were only about 4 or 5 kids on “free lunches”. And they had to work in the cafeteria to get theirs “free”. I really am not very happy with the citizens today. A bunch of freeloaders all around. And talk about being poor. Most everyone was poor. But our parents PAYED for our food, clothing, health care,and homes. Not todays people. They are horrible.
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