Posted on 11/15/2010 8:28:07 AM PST by Nachum
The question is — be honest — where will the money come from?
Government is chock-full of programs many people view as worthwhile — until the cost is added up. Then, many taxpayers decide priorities need to be set.
That is why liberals in government have become adept at concealing the cost of social programs. One example is currently in the news.
First lady Michelle Obama insists that healthier foods should be served in public school lunches. That will require a new $4.5 billion program, say the program's proponents. The federally funded school-lunch program feeds 31 million low-income American children a year and provides many with the bulk of the calories they consume each day.
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Why should it cost a penny?
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Just another way to take parenting responsibilities from children and give it to the government.
All we got (50's) was milk when I was a kid. My kids (late 60's and 70's) had lunch available but they made their own.
My grandchildren ('90s until today) made their own lunch for the early years but now BUY school lunches. Yes...they grab a bowl of cereal at home..Imagine that!!
From cradle to grave this bunch is.
Odds are if it’s “healthier” 50% more will go in the garbage. More enterprising kids will sell junk food out of their locker, a mini black market so to speak.
Public school lunches should be a state or local issue, not a federal one.
And this coming from someone whose backside is the size of Hitlery’s . . . Incredible that the irony of this hefty woman’s pronouncement has not been splashed all over the media. If this woman is not way over weight, then my lying eyes need to be checked.
The number is ridiculous....That’s half the children and the majority are already getting food stamps. This is about lazy mothers, raising lazy kids to get another free handout without doing the work...God forbid that a mother or kid would have to actually get a bowl out for cereal or make a sandwich for lunch.
Take it out of Moochelles travel budget!
Just 2-3 fewer Moochelle-style flotus vacations should cover it.
We are getting sooooo screwed!!!
Kids are being fed Breakfast—lunch & dinner (in some schools). These meals are FREE to ‘low income’ kids.
Those same ‘low income’ kids are often part of a ‘family’ that is on Food Stamps.
I am more than troubled that the Food Stamp people are not communicating with the Free School Lunch people & that the Taxpayers are paying double.
The end result???
Obese kids who are eating twice as much ..
The Post Script? MOOOOCHELLE NObama who is sticking her Saxquatch frame into the debate...pushing for ‘healthier foods.
Keep in mind that this push for ‘healthier foods’ in happening in the same time frame as Senate Bill S-510, which would make growing any kind of food—even you home garden more difficult—more expensive— & more intrusive behavior from your Federal government.
See FR thread for more info. # 2627395 “Alert S-510 Fppd Takeover Act.....”
the gubmint can make back most of that by selling the school cafeteria garbage to pig farms, because that’s where all that “healthy” food ends up - in the trash
you’ve never worked or watched the slop line in school cafeterias!
“How many celery sticks would you like with your soyburger, Darrell?”
At least for the investment America will have happier healthier hogs
This is exactly what confuses liberals. They see polls showing that 70% of people want free heathcare... but what they don’t understand is that everyone wants someone for free, but when people are told are you willing to pay higher taxes to provide free healthcare for everyone... the result changes dramaticly.
In the real world you have to pay for things, in the liberals dream world everything is free or “other” people (usually the rich) pay for it all.
That’s $1451 per student... Or $8.61 per lunch. Kind of a spendy lunch isn’t it?
“Kids are being fed Breakfast—lunch & dinner (in some schools). These meals are FREE to ‘low income’ kids.”
You wish. My kids had free breakfast for years at their Title One school. It was “free” to every kid in the school so no one would be stigmatized” by getting “free” breakfast
And I fed my kids before school because “free” breakfast was poptarts or sugared cereal and flavored milk
How in the world can cutting fats and sweets possibly cost so much?
“I’m serious about this. Why should it cost one cent more than we’re already spending?Replace french fries with carrots, celery, apples, oranges, grapes. Replace white bread with whole grain, and don’t add so much salt to stuff.
That should be cost neutral at best.”
Actually it will cost more because vegetables cost more than frozen french fries and commercially made white bread. What irks me is that there is no reason why a mother or father or the kid himself for that matter, cannot make their own lunch at home with healthier options. It was a horrible thing to get people dependent on the federal government for subsidized lunches. It makes people less independent and more needy.
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