Posted on 06/02/2010 8:31:11 PM PDT by Gennie
Liberals destroy everything.
Daddy Government at its best....the only thing you could have done is check off which State this was in...otherwise good job!
" It's a federally funded program. Children from toddler through age 18 may participate, because "all kids need a nutritious meal. We don't ask questions, they don't have to fill out applications," Bechtold said.
I thought schools were perpetually out of money... and yet the can afford to feed non-students.
They’re free to thank me anytime for paying for their “free” meal.
I got the same flyer and explained “free lunches” to my g/kids that live with me. They “get it” now.
As if "federally funded" wasn't taxpayer money... Doofus!
Great article for a first post. Very disturbing implications.
IN comparison, Cuba last year ended it’s multidecade long free lunch program for adults, apparently just in time for the Obama Dept of Education and Dept of Agriculture to start it up in the USSA.
Free and reduced lunches are paid for by the Feds
Did you know that it's illegal for state governments to audit these programs?
Actually, there's a formula that "allows" a percentage of around 2 percent of recipients across locales to be audited anonymously, but the federal regs actually forbid governments from oversight of these programs they administer, to find out, for example, whether parents of new students are "guided" into lying about their income in order to inflate the numbers of those eligible?
Pretty sweet gig for SEIU, et.al., eh?
The free summer lunch program for children has been going for years. They ought to subcontract the lunches to Subway and have a real summer school enrichment program at the schools, but that would involve real learning. Can’t have that!
http://www.summerfood.usda.gov/about/index.html
They seem to have a HUGE staff for a Food Bank.....wonder where they DO get their money, outside of local donations....here's their last Financial Report....where they get about $586,000 from USDA.....they have $7,000,000+ in Assets...
http://www.omahafoodbank.org/documents/09annualreport.pdf
Then there is FEEDING AMERICA (formerly Americas Second Harvest, I think) and a "donor" to this food bank and others........here's a little ditty from their website....
Bridging the Gap Between Friday’s Lunch and Monday’s Breakfast May 12, 2010
"Today in America, nearly one in four children struggle on a daily basis with hunger. Federal school breakfast and lunch programs curb their appetites during the school week, but many families have little help to rely on over the course of the weekend and holidays. Two days without adequate food can do a lot to hinder [...]"
I'm sorry, but I am SICK and TIRED of hearing 1 in 4 children struggle with hunger daily....yeah...they're hungry in the morning when they wake up (I always was)...and just before lunch, and just before dinner, and even before bedtime.....!!! Foodbanks are great...for the TRULY needy...but I have a sister who has used them, and she tells of the WASTE and problems...
These idiots are doing no favors for the adults getting the free lunches when they should be out looking for work or contributing to the economy in some small way.
This means prime or filet with the use of their food stamp money! There should be no need for those gubmit classes on home budgeting for the poor. Not!
I’m a diabetic and I demand that they modify the program for me. LOL I’m sure some Muslim participants will demand Halil meals and they will get them or I don’t know government!
Well WHAT do the poor in the U.S. have to pay for? Free section 8 housing, welfare, food stamps, free breakfast and lunch at school, free medical care, etc. Seems like they’d have a LOT left over for essentials like tennis shoes, cell phones, flat screeen TVs, engraved nails and designer clothes. No wonder we have morbidly obese poor people.
Meals will be provided by the federal Summer Food Service Program every Monday through Friday, although no meals will be served July 2 or 5.That's inhumane - these folks will starve on those two days. Send in emergency backup!
It's a federally funded program.What a relief. Here I thought it was a government-funded program - it turns out to be funded with free money!
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