Posted on 05/30/2017 12:21:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
America ain't rich.
$20 Trillion in debt says otherwise.
So what do they buy with food stamps? Drugs?
Average food stamps per person is $127 per month.
During the school year many of these kids are on school breakfast and lunch programs...
As well as the family getting food stamps.
Also, don’t forget the EITC.
The maximum EITC with one qualifying child is $3,250, with two children, it is $5,372, and with three or more qualifying children, it is $6,044.
Abuse doesn’t happen in a vacuum. If children are being abused by not being fed, then there is also other abuse happening. Remove those children from the abusive home instead of covering up abuse with lunch programs that enrich NGOs.
It’s ironic how some people just never wanted to leave the plantation after all.
Yes. And 40’s, smokes, lottery scratchers, junk food, gas, etc.
The USA is too stretched financially to pay for the things she wants as well as the other ones you mention. We need our money to build a wall and do other things to keep terrorists out that murder children. It’s far better that they be hungry than dead. I say, let churches and other institutions that don’t have the security responsibilities that the Federal Goverment has feed these children if their parents can’t or won’t.
A LOT of people and organizations (churches, etc) would be happy to feed hungry kids. The government involvement will only end in abuse and thievery!
If all of these programs were replaced with simple “soup lines”, the country would appear to be in ten times worse condition than during the Great Depression.
Just sayin’...
Pretty Soon the Welfare families will get three meals a day at taxpayers expense.. What is the matter with PBJ sandwich and some milk in a thermos. The kids don’t like those school lunches any how.. I mean a bowl of Cheerios or Cornflakes in the am before school. These parents are something else..
The type of poverty that causes these children to be hungry has very little to do with a lack of physical resources.
Now we’re responsible for feeding the parasites year round.
I’d rather think about the millions of parents who have kids they can’t or won’t take care of.
For many of these children’s plights, we can thank Democrat LBJ for his “war on poverty” which caused many families to split so they could get MORE support money...
Fathers left their families and it just grew and grew...
Actually, in the fifties, black families were more closely knit than white families, it is said...
If these children are being neglected, why aren’t they in foster care?
A big portion of that debt, and almost all of our unfunded liabilities, are from "gibsmedat" programs like this school lunch thing.
Almost all of them CAN afford to feed their kids, but the simple fact is WHY feed them when all they have to do is fill out a card and the state feeds them for you?
What is the incentive to feed your own kids and spend money that YOU can use for your own benefit when it’s so easy to let them get it for “free”, telling them to walk down and eat like all their friends do?
We know kids whose parents make good money and still get their kids on the meal program at school. And what is so infuriating is the system that we have now WANTS them to do it to inflate the numbers, and these parents think that it’s perfectly fine to do this.
Big old bowl of oatmeal, some brown sugar and cinnamon and some fake maple syrup when mom wasn’t looking was pretty much a staple when money was tight at our home growing up. Costs is in pennies even in today’s prices, throw a couple of eggs in there when we could and a couple slices of toast and we could go all day if we had to.
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