Posted on 11/14/2011 1:12:57 PM PST by Sybeck1
MEMPHIS, TN - (WMC-TV) - A new meal program for some students of Memphis City Schools was the subject of a recent rant by nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Students in dozens of Memphis City Schools are receiving an extra meal - dinner - during the district's after-hours enrichment programs. A recent story in the Commercial Appeal about the federally funded program caught Limbaugh's attention.
"The writer, this Jane Roberts, (writes as if) 'oh this is wonderful...this is the greatest invention ever: supper at school,'" Limbaugh said.
The article spotlighted an 11-year-old student at Shelby Oaks Elementary who expressed his gratitude for an additional meal at the end of the day.
"Why does this kid need supper at school?" Limbaugh asked.
Using Memphis as his whipping post, Limbaugh then criticized the federal government's Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was passed last year. The act adds dinner to lunch rooms across the country for the nation's poorest students.
"The sperm meets the egg, the kids are born, and off to school he goes," Limbaugh said. "You might see him on weekends, but you're not going to be expected to feed him."
Action News 5 contacted Memphis City Schools for a response to Limbaugh's statements, but a spokesperson said the district would not dignify the host's comments with a statement. But after the broadcast, parents like Richard Mitchell were quick to respond.
"That doesn't sound very sympathetic," he said. "I mean, my boy eats dinner at home, but some other people's might not."
Clearly, Limbaugh's criticism of a government program for the poor go beyond the Bluff City, but reading a story from the Commercial Appeal made Memphis easy pickings for his platform.
Action News 5 attempted to reach Limbaugh for comment, but Friday, the media telephone line for the E.I.B. Network was either busy or there was no answer.
Plays right into the hands of the Democrats.
More of the "I'm doing OK, but some hypothetical person might not be."
I recall reading a story 20-or-so years ago about schools where you could get your kid out of bed in the morning, take them to school unfed and in their pajamas, then pick them up at night, fed and pajamaed, ready to go to bed.
Don’t know if they covered weekends.
Apparently the school had a lot of folks in its area who wanted to have children but didn’t want to be parents.
Rush is correctly pointing out that the bloated government types...leftists, progressives, out and out marxists, and a good sprinkling of RINO, so-called compassionate conservatives...are creating a society where the government takes care of the kids from just after waking up in the morning to just before they go to bed.
What type of outcome is that likely to foster in society do you suppose? It produces more and more gvernment indoctrinated kids unable to distinguish between freebie handouts stolen from the public largess and hard work of others and true liberty...unable to read and understand, much less comprehend the Constitution and its underlying principles and why the founders set it up that way.
IOW, a system which is destroying true liberty and our way of life with a will.
And those other families are probably receiving food stamps and food from the food bank, as well, to go along with their free cash, almost free rent, subsidized utilities, free health care, free cell phones, free internet, free taxi rides to doctor appointments, and so on. Why don’t the schools just take over the full custody of these children that are seemingly never being fed “at home”, and save us all a lot of money?
Rush is right on!
Why is it abuse to spank your child, but simply a problem government needs to solve to feed them? I say we take children away from parents that send them to school without a lunch, lunch money, or having given them breakfast. Ask the kids a simple question, did you have breakfast this morning? If they are not eating lunch in a class or cafeteria, ask them if they forgot their lunch, note it, and ask again tomorrow. If the answer is no breakfast, no lunch and is a two day pattern, call CPS. The price of food is extremely low for breakfast foods. Ditto for lunches. People are drawing food stamps, make them lose them, or their reason (the children) for needing them. Starve the “grasshoppers” among us until the decide picking shi’ite with the chickens, or harvesting lettuce is a fine way to earn some “bread”. I totally agree with Michelle Bachmann, he who shall not work, shall not eat. Since they cannot feed their own children, they need to be housed in newly supplied orphanages. I am sure the price is close to or equal to the cost of social programs, or would be now. In the future though, people will adapt and the costs, and the number of children living with worthless parents would go Waaaaay down.
I know Rush would have been more sympathetic if he recalled that one of the high schools in Memphis had 90 pregnancies last year. Wonder if they are entitled to two suppers because... oh, never mind.
If the kids are getting all three meals at school, just make school year round and take the food stamps away from their most likely single (never married) mom.
Does Socialism taste like chicken? From my perspective now, it seems to taste like dirt, but maybe that’s me. :-)
Just keep the kids once Paternity Leave is over. This is right out of ANTHEM by Ayn rand.
Oh, I think Rush is probably a tad smarter than Dims.
I just emailed Ms Hartman to see if she sought opposing viewpoints.
What reaction does the media want the general public to have regarding Limbaugh’s entirely rational statement? “Conservatives want children to starve to death!!!” that’s what. Even if it means parents are allowed to abdicate their responsibility to their own kids, the media wants the general public to think that conservatives are so greedy and mean-spirited, they’d let kids starve rather than give them a “free” meal. All the people involved with the decision to give more free meals to kids should be fired, but we know that won’t happen.
Well, it started at free lunch, but heck, why stop there? If they were really concerned about the kid’s nutrition, they would have free breakfast and dinner too!
Not only that, most of those kids live in messy unsanitary houses. Much better if we build a building next to the school where they can all stay in clean, government regulated comfort. And just think, the athletic fields are right there, so they can get healthy exercise.
And what about clothes? Lots of under privileged children are made to feel bad because they can’t afford stuff as nice as their rich classmates. Let’s make it equal by putting everyone in the same stuff. Nice elegant brown shirts for the boys, and smart “Hillary-style” blue pantsuits for the girls!
Of course, since they would have a lot more time on campus, they would probably benefit from club activities like “Obama Youth”, “Young People’s Atheist Society”, etc.
Anna Marie Hartman
WMC-TV, Channel 5 reporter Anna Marie Hartman sings behind husband Brad Birkedahl at the Blues City Band Box. Hartman, a vocal music major in college, performs on Beale Street four nights a week.
Do you know that most, if not all, of the benefits you mentiond do not count as “Income” and reduce the amount of Federal and state grants? And now suppers, gee, isn’t this a wonderful country.
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