Today’s best posted article. Thanks.
One thing I have noticed by WIC users in the checkout line at the grocery store is that WIC (at least in TX) only allows certain brands of food. Users can’t buy the more expensive milk, or eggs, but just buy the less expensive store brand.
Good Stamps could save $$ if they did that, and cut out sodas, and energy drinks.
Public education - or ‘public indoctrination’, if you will, is in urgent need of fixing. Early indications are that Ms. DeVos is apt to make some good headway in this regard.
I think it’s important to note that we put men on the moon with slide rules, relatively slow and low capacity computers, chalkboards, and textbooks. Most Americans had a good grasp of English, Math, Science and could think creatively and critically.
Point being we have done far more with far less. Time to get back to the fundamentals in public education. Home school needs to be a viable alternative as well (void of local/state harassment).
The only good thing about WIC is it restricts what can be bought. Where food stamps anything human edible can be bought. Food stamps needs the most reform, and it starts with restrictions on junk food purchases and classifies what is junk food, I watch the fatso go through the check out line with 2 buggies loaded with junk food not just chips and soda, but frozen dinners that are not nutritious and energy drinks. MANDATORY Drug testing must be included. These people don’t even know how to cook. They do know how to zap something in the microwave. Thus the frozen dinners.
The free meals program to public education is popular, and yes, needed. However, over years the federal government has larded it with countless demands, under threat of taking those monies away.
So the best reform here would be to make the free meals program a block grant to the states, with no strings attached. This would save schools a vast amount of money, on what are otherwise unfunded mandates.
It might even be enhanced by including with the block grant additional monies for the states to use their surplus foods to *augment* the meals.