Posted on 12/10/2022 1:43:05 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
“The policy also helped address household food insecurity,”
Kids from poor families are in almost automatically. Of course they are already on the Food Stamp/SNAP program, so in theory, they should already be getting enough to eat. But we know how that really works. So schools provide a free breakfast and a free lunch—often year round even when schools aren’t in session.
And then there’s the ‘backpack’ program for kids to take home food for the weekends. You can’t expect parents to feed their own kids on the weekends, can you?
Note: I realize that there are kids whose only likely weekend meal is coming from those backpacks and that their parents’ irresponsibility isn’t the kids’ fault. But I’m curmudgeonly enough to think there should be stigma attached to parents who don’t provide for their kids, even when they’re collecting welfare expressly for that purpose.
Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend for INTRAstate school lunches.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In other words, so-called CV19 "federal" funding for school lunches should never have left the states in the first place. Such funding can be consider as state revenues that the states could have used for school lunches without the unconstitutionally big federal government's "help."
Trump's red tsunami of patriot voters need to work with MAGA federal and state lawmakers to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers according to the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above.
Roof? you had roofs? We had to sleep leaning against
a windfall...
Government dependence, interference, influence, indoctrination, and control.
For stsrters
ProtectOurFreedom wrote: “Self-reliance. Dignity. Hard work. Thrift. Taking care of your family. You know...all those good old-fashioned American values that made the country great.”
Left off the freedom to choose what’s for lunch instead of the government choosing for you. You want the crickets or the grasshopers?
I didn’t mind the PB&J, but oh, I loathed the Olive Loaf.
” I loathed the Olive Loaf.”
Lulz.
I remember.
Ironically, hated them then but get a hankering for them at times even today.
It reinforces the Idea that your kids belong to the gov’t, not you.
“I used to complain about the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and an apple I got to take to school for lunch everyday”
That’s what I used to make for myself for a decade or so when I went to work.
The milk servings were required, because the program is run by the Department of Agriculture. It was a sop to the dairy farmers. I bet there is a higher percentage of children today with lactose intolerance than when I was a school aged kid, but the dairy requirement is still there.
“I remember most people hated the school provided lunches except for tater tots.”
Depends on how hungry you are.
In my elementary school, there were some kids that came from the backwoods from dirt poor families. This was before food stamps. They looked like stick figures they were so skinny.
At our school, if you cleaned your plate at lunch, you could go back for ‘seconds’ and get whatever food was left over. Those kids ate every scrap of food on their plates, lima beans, carrots, didn’t matter they ate everything. I remember to this day one kid swabbing off his plate with a piece of cornbread, stuffing that in his mouth, and running back to the serving line.
I’m pretty sure those lunches were all some of those kids got to eat. We can debate welfare and supporting other peoples kids, but you’d have to be pretty hard-hearted to want to cut off school lunches for kids like that.
>>I thought poor families received EBT credits specifically to feed their dependent children.
EBT plus SNAP, plus WIC, plus ... plus...plus...
If the state wants to do it, fine. But fedgov has no part under the Constitution. It’s a grift.
Those meal programs were never about feeding students. They were nothing more than a government racket to subsidize farmers and food producers.
Most of those lunch trays went from the line to the garbage cans.
Don’t understand why today’s kids can’t be given real food like we had. Real pieces of chicken. Real fruit. The smell of homemade yeast rolls and peanut butter cookies wafting through the hallways during English class before the lunch bell. You know, a cheaper but still yummy version of Sidwell school lunches.
I didn’t say I wanted to cut off school lunches, I just don’t see why everyone’s lunch should be free. The article is about universal free lunches.
I don’t think there were any kids who were starving in my schools, but there were lots who were seriously overweight. In high school lots of students went off campus even though it wasn’t technically allowed.
Oh, we used to dream of having a windfall...
Because po’ people can afford cigarettes’ and liquor- and Escalades, but not a PB&J and a banana
“Lunch”?? You’re out of date. At lots of schools, it is now Breakfast, Lunch AND Dinner.
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