Posted on 09/18/2011 6:17:20 PM PDT by Bluestateredman
A Staten Island couple stole at least $2.5 million in federal funds meant for nutritious meals for preschoolers, prosecutors asserted in a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday.
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If they contributed to Zer0 or the democRATS they’ll get off scot free.
It’s terrible the money was stolen—but this sort of give-away program must be stopped. We cannot afford it.
If folks were forced to work for food, they would do it. We have too many people who are third and fourth generation welfare receipents, IMHO......
I don’t think we would see people dying in the streets of hunger. People would figure out a way to feed themselves and their children.
Benjamin Franklin felt exactly the same way.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
STARVING CHILRUN!
Do you really think you can buy a meal or snack for a preschooler for $15.28 in New York? What do you supposed these people could have skimmed from Fedzilla if they had set up a solar company and contributed sufficiently to the mob boss campaign?
Is it their fault they didn't have sufficiently high ambitions?
Did the 9/11 terrorist know what they were attacking?
Just asking.
I think it’s up to the churches and other charitable organizations to help those who are truly in need. It is not the responsibility of the government to fulfill our every need and want.
But...but... they did it for the chilrens.
Right you are, but look who has manipulated our Federal government in the direction of the Nanny State over the years. The same Leftist’s that disdain those Church’s, and specifically Christian “other charitable organizations”.
This country grew to greatness during that period we the people were taking care of our own, and now that the Left has the Fed taking care of us we aren’t so great anymore.
More theft of taxpayers funds courtesy of an incompetent and overbloated Federal Bureaucracy and the leeches who deceitfully suck from it
Well well, a Chinese schoolmaster and schoolmistress (they weren’t even naturalized Americans) cheated the government out of money they claimed was going to subsidize lunches for Chinese kids in a Chinese school.
If this was discovered happening in China, and it sounds like some of the shenanigans that have popped up there from time to time, they’d end up getting shot. At least they didn’t feed the kids melamine (as far as we know).
Well—we sure know how we got into this state—now, if we could only figure out how to get out of it........
The real story here is not the thievery but the amount of money being thrown at these “programs” with little or no oversight. This should be at minimum a state matter, but the federal lunch “program” has grown into a behemoth.
This is just the tiny tiny tip of s multi-trillion$ iceberg. Entitlement welfare. If only one hungry child gets fed, it's worth the collateral waste.
It's only taxpayer money, and they can always print more.
Perhaps if we knock off the PC nonsense, speak our minds as we often do here at FRee Republic, and encourage our representatives to do the same the message will reach more.
Perhaps....
How else do you expect them to pay their property taxes?
/sarc-I guess....
That's exactly what it was like, in the old days when charity worked. I think you would be hard pressed to find $3 million missing in the old days.
You didn't have generations which never worked a day in their lives driving cadillacs, having color TVs and expensive sports shoes and clothes, either.
What was the "poverty rate" in 1949?
For those old enough remember in the 60’s and 7o’s in public schools we students paid for cafeteria food? It didnt cost much and the meals were pretty nutritious too. Although providing lunch for needy kids is just fine the waste and irresponsible handling of Federal funds allocated is damn disgusting!
Meanwhile, the parent(s) receive food stamp funds as if they were actually feeding them three meals a day. In addition to the preschool funding, school districts offer breakfast and lunch via government funding as well as snack bags for the weekend in many urban areas. The overlap means that parents provide, at most, 11 meals a week while being given enough food stamp money to provide for 21 meals a week. I dated a school teacher who taught in an urban district and there were minority kids who entered school not fully potty trained who had watched all of the SAW horror films. Their parent tended not to feed them many of the 11 meals they were expected to provide.
Charity should be provided for by charitable organizations, not the government. At the very least, governmental programs should have strings attached and a limited number of staple food selections.
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