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To: Brookhaven

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Stop all school based food programs.

We provide food stamps to families. They can feed their own.

I took a lunch to school every day. Somehow I survived. The lunch was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich each day. I loved it.

You can’t tell me that people who want to support their kids can’t find a way to come up with the few dollars needed to feed them.

Oatmeal isn’t that expensive. Cream of wheat isn’t that expensive. A few eggs per week, aren’t that expensive.

Bread isn’t that expensive. Generic brands of peanut butter aren’t that expensive.

And if families don’t want to feed their kids, then put the kids in a kid friendly place where they can be fed an taught some good values. It sure beats the gang infested areas we have today.

My heart has bled enough. It’s time to clean up our act. And this school breakfast program is worthless.


17 posted on 11/16/2010 10:42:32 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Your next chance like this? About 2044. Vote popularity and don't waste time with the details.)
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To: DoughtyOne

RE: “One place to save...

Stop all school based food programs.

We provide food stamps to families. They can feed their own.

I took a lunch to school every day. Somehow I survived. The lunch was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich each day. I loved it.

You can’t tell me that people who want to support their kids can’t find a way to come up with the few dollars needed to feed them.

Oatmeal isn’t that expensive. Cream of wheat isn’t that expensive. A few eggs per week, aren’t that expensive.

Bread isn’t that expensive. Generic brands of peanut butter aren’t that expensive.

And if families don’t want to feed their kids, then put the kids in a kid friendly place where they can be fed an taught some good values. It sure beats the gang infested areas we have today.

My heart has bled enough. It’s time to clean up our act. And this school breakfast program is worthless.”

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Agree — a friend is a long-time substitute teacher for LAUSD, in the ‘city’ neighborhoods. He has seen it all — and one of the things he’s seen is parents or whomever taking the kids from school directly to whatever fast food joint happens to be across the street from school — this...after the same kids have consumed, or at least been offered, the free lunch AND BREAKFAST in some cases.

Heaven forbid those who should be responsible for kids actually have to make sure they get three meals a day. Reports are that there is terrible waste, as kids don’t find the offerings all that appealing at times.

These same kids are, in about half the cases, OVERWEIGHT in the first place. Yeah, if I were getting food at school and from fast food joints and undoubtedly at home as well, I’d be really overweight, too.

I am so sick of all this catering to the so-called unfortunates and/or illegals that I can’t stand it anymore. I am almost ready to trade great weather and 55 years in L.A. for a more ‘normal’ environment in some ‘red’ state.

If the USA would just STOP this insane spending, zip up the borders, drop the feeding and education of illegals and most of all, STOP employers from giving work to illegals, a lot of our problems would resolve. But we know that won’t be happening.................. what a pathetic mess we are in.


21 posted on 11/16/2010 10:51:48 AM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: DoughtyOne

Amen! You know, I still love a fried egg sandwich to this day and so does my sister. That’s what I took to elementary school in my “Bonanza” lunch pail :).


23 posted on 11/16/2010 10:55:16 AM PST by LadyShires
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