Posted on 01/30/2016 8:31:14 AM PST by Cheerio
The Obama administration proposes to provide free lunch to millions of children who lose access to the subsidized meals once the school year comes to a close.
Under the program announced Wednesday, low-income families who are eligible for free and reduced-price meals during the academic year would receive an electronic benefits card loaded monthly with $45 per child. The benefit would go toward groceries during the summer months when school is closed.
The program will cost taxpayers $12 billion over 10 years if Congress accepts the proposal in President Obama's 2017 budget request, scheduled to be submitted to lawmakers next month.
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What about the food stamps they already receive allocations for?
Maybe if they didn’t buy the “air Jordan’s†for $450 or whatever they are called they could afford lunch for their kids.
Students don’t get enough of Michelle O’s crappy lunches during the regular school year?
This will be more crap that ends up in the trashcans, assuming they keep the same menues.
Why is this needed if unemployment is truly 5% like BO says?
Have all the children you want the government will raise them for you. Here in Indianapolis there are schools that actually give the children showers at school and have newly washed clothes available for them to change into when they get to school. Teach them early that other people, read government, will take care of all their needs.
Sadly I can’t argue with your logic.
Let’s get the fathers employed so they can pay for their own lunches!
Fathers first; mothers too I suppose; but let’s create conditions for private industry to grow to facilitate the required background conditions for financial health within the family so that the mothers who do want take care of their infants and toddlers can - many do! despite the feminist propaganda out there to the contrary.
Bring back manufacturing jobs to American cities! We have the technology today for clean manufacturing processes.
The manufacturing jobs ought to be in America! We can regulate pollution in this day and age- government can spend the money supporting private industry in creating clean manufacturing processes so the parents have jobs instead of hand outs!!
Families can support themselves and self-respect and self determination will return.
Go Trump!
$45 will hardy buy a lobster for the parents!
Leftover Mooch lunches from the school year, no doubt.
Invading Iraq cost us $1.6 trillion. This lunch scheme is a bad idea in many ways, but to say we don’t have money to spare for it - when we had $1.6 trillion to blow on the wasteful Iraq boondoggle - is going to be a tough argument to make
Also the GOP Hawks like McCains and Lindseeds who want us at war with Syria and Iran seem to think there’s plenty of billions at the federal govts disposal, so $12 million for lunches is chump change
Ya Think!!
BTW, lest we forget, each of these families is already on SNAP. There is no offset.
I agree, but i remember reading many articles few years back some schools don’t allow kids to bring lunch from home. some only allowed with doctors note.
I’ve seen very few of these kids or their parents who look like they’ve skipped a meal ever.
Actually the government feeding program is a big problem. Millions of kids are now obese because of government feeding. It’s been documented. Of course you won’t read about it in the newspaper.
$60 free bus pass to get to feeling trough?
I never heard of that .. I’ll look into it ... thanx
Yep, so-called “Compassionate Conservatism” which is neither, was the death of this country.
Bump that to $25 billion and we won’t need parents at all! Yay!
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