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More schools serve students dinner as demand expands
Associated Press ^ | January 18, 2015 | Christine Armario

Posted on 01/20/2015 8:40:02 AM PST by Pelham

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1 posted on 01/20/2015 8:40:02 AM PST by Pelham
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What exactly are the parents’ food stamps buying then?


2 posted on 01/20/2015 8:42:03 AM PST by uncitizen (When's the last time you heard: "It's a free country"?)
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Well, hell, why not just redesignate the school as a government orphanage, set up army cots in the gym and let the kiddies stay 24/7?

Then, you can track down the parents and send them back to Mexico where their welfare check will go a whole lot further.

3 posted on 01/20/2015 8:44:19 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Research on family dinners has shown a plethora of benefits: Greater academic achievement, less delinquency, and better family relations.

And there you have the gist of the problem . . . if the kiddies grow up in a functional family, there is always the possibility that they might not vote Democrat.

4 posted on 01/20/2015 8:47:24 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Yes. Add some washers and driers and call it home. Then end payments to the so called parents.


5 posted on 01/20/2015 8:50:06 AM PST by Oldexpat
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OK so these parents are on food stamps, WIC etc . Now correct me if I am wrong but they are for the food which we pay for which goes to their kids.

If they are getting all meals free at school then what the hell are they spending the food stamps and WIC etc on?


6 posted on 01/20/2015 8:51:13 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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That idea may have already started with the Central American and Mexican kids who flooded across the border at Obama’s invitation.

The whole school dinner thing is just one more step for the Open Borders lobby. LAUSD doesn’t ask about citizenship and it became overwhelmingly latino in recent years. This is your chance to pay Mexico to send its people to America for free stuff. Órale!


7 posted on 01/20/2015 8:55:06 AM PST by Pelham (WWIII. Islam vs the West)
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If they are getting all meals free at school then what the hell are they spending the food stamps and WIC etc on?

Most likely either selling their EBT cards at a discount or buying premium food you and I can't afford so they can raise some quick cash for booze, smokes and drugs. I've sometimes thought we should open government stores which sell booze, smokes and drugs at bargain prices for EBT card users only.

8 posted on 01/20/2015 8:59:37 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Who needs parents when Obama rules?/sarc


9 posted on 01/20/2015 9:00:03 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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“OK so these parents are on food stamps, WIC etc . “

That isn’t necessarily true. Some of these parents make plenty of money but they’re real happy to have you pick up their food bill. Who gets booted off the program? No one. The schools push these programs because they are getting money based on the number of students enrolled.


10 posted on 01/20/2015 9:01:27 AM PST by Pelham (WWIII. Islam vs the West)
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“When kids are hungry, they don’t pay attention,” said Bennett Kayser, a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District board,

Makes sense. Why aren't their parents feeding them? And why are you putting a gun to my head to make me feed them?

11 posted on 01/20/2015 9:09:33 AM PST by TheDon (The genocide in Iraq is the legacy of Barack Obama.)
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Many of the students at Kingsley Elementary School in a low-income neighborhood of Los Angeles eat breakfast and lunch provided by the school. For the nearly 100 enrolled in the after-school program, another meal is served: supper

"the basis of economics is scarcity .. prices are the mechanism by which scarce resources are allocated" (I forget who)

When something is free there is going to be no limit on demand. Of course the demand is growing.

12 posted on 01/20/2015 9:13:40 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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‘stensionz, nailz, rimz, grillz...


13 posted on 01/20/2015 9:15:08 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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I, for one, am TAPPED OUT on this paying to feed these poor children over and over and over again. Now 3 meals a day, plus they take food home on weekends, and THEY ARE STILL GETTING ALL THE FOOD STAMPS.

Someone in the GOP needs to make an issue of this, AT LEAST propose an option that the kids either get meals at school OR the parents get the food stamps, but NOT BOTH.

The media is so incompetent in not asking these questions, as well, and just reporting on how it makes better students if the kids are not starving all the time.


14 posted on 01/20/2015 9:18:17 AM PST by NEMDF
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Great! Let’s cancel the “fool stamps” for those families.


15 posted on 01/20/2015 9:20:34 AM PST by CSM
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Who gets booted off the program? No one

And at least here in GA all you have to do to get your chil on the program is say you can't afford to feed them - no checking done and no proof required.

Of course if you can't feed your chilluns you probably don't have any business dropping them in the first place, but that's another subject.

16 posted on 01/20/2015 9:21:37 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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I weep for the future.


17 posted on 01/20/2015 9:23:46 AM PST by dfwgator
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You being tapped out has nothing to do with it. It's not THEIR money, so they don't care. To think that entitlement programs would shrink under anyone's leadership is laughable.

Imagine the MSM headlines- "GOP to Cut Food for Infants and Toddlers"
18 posted on 01/20/2015 9:28:00 AM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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Exactly, it’s a double whammy for the taxpayer (who no one seems to care about anymore). Plus—what are these parents doing with their time?


19 posted on 01/20/2015 9:32:02 AM PST by rbg81
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I’ll bet a lot of ‘em don’t pay much attention anyway. Or even speak the language.

Next thing you know, they’ll start building dormmatories.


20 posted on 01/20/2015 9:33:36 AM PST by rbg81
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