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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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!
Federal law requires school districts with a certain percentage of households qualifying as economically disadvantaged to provide the summer program, Grant said.
Food offered during the summer program will be similar to standard school fare, but will feature more “kid-friendly” treats such as hamburgers, pizza and chicken nuggets, Grant noted. - Big Spring Herald - Free lunch! (for kids, anyway)
"I can imagine how many kids are not able to come eat in free programs that are probably at home; waiting for their parents each day to come home and be fed," Pinon says. - centraltexasnow.com - Local school districts offer free summer meals
“I always tell folks, at the end of the school year, everyone thinks all of the children are thinking about where they are going on summer vacation and what they'll be doing,” said Cheryl Evans-McDonald, summer food services program coordinator with the South Carolina Department of Social Services. “But you've got other children who are thinking about where their next meal's coming from. Some children aren't happy to see school get out because they know they won't have anything to eat. We're here to help them.”
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Already, Evans-McDonald said, people are calling to ask about where free lunches will be served.
“I do anticipate with the economy being the way it is, it's making a huge impact on the need,” she said. “We're out there doing what we can. It's a busy time. If you could just see the faces of the children, to just be getting a meal and taking something home to eat later or taking something home to their grandparents or parents. … That really is what it's all about.” - Free lunch! (for kids, anyway)
The Summer Food Service Program is designed to fill that nutrition gap and make sure children can get the nutritious meals they need. - USDA Summer Food Service Program Site
Now the last quote up above is direct from the USDA site, the point being that the kids will have access to nutritious, healthy food that they "obviously" couldn't get at home, right? Well, I decided to try and find some of the menus, now bear in mind that each school district is going to have a different menu, but take a gander at these - Albuquerque Summer Lunch Program
Here's a wonderful breakfast for a kid -
Poptart Fresh Fruit Milk
Or how about this for a lunch?
Chocolate Milk Chicken O Rings BBQ Sauce Cinnamon Apple Cup Fruit Punch
This stuff looks like garbage to me, and surely kids could get a Pop Tart at home. Stuff like this just really upsets me, though I guess it's just all part of a bigger picture.
It's a federally funded program.
Welcome to FR and good post.
Staying on the government tit for all their lives. Just what zero wants, more people depending on government. Austin ISD is doing the same thing here.
If you hadn’t said it, no one would know it was your first post. Well done!
So, now the daycares that used to provide lunches just pack the kids up and take them to the school for 'free' grub?
These programs are despicable.
I live across the street from an elementary school. The number of “parents” dropping their little ninos off for “free” breakfast while driving new cars is utterly disgusting.
The goobermint should not be in the business of feeding children, certainly not the 95% that are on “free” breakfast and lunch at that grade school. Parents who don’t feed their kids should be prosecuted for child abuse.
Now they’ve extended them to adult parasites as well.
Many of these blood suckers are - wait for it - ILLEGAL ALIENS who do not have to prove citizenship (as the article states) for leeching on to the necks of the taxpayers.