Posted on 12/16/2019 9:17:54 AM PST by karpov
On the presidential campaign trail, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been pushing for a policy that would pave the way for free meals at school for all children. His campaign promise is backed by the notion that one out of six children don’t know where their next meal is coming from. His flawed logic asserts that the federal government should make free and reduced-price lunch available to not only the one out of six who need assistance, but to the five out of six children who are already adequately fed.
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There are more than seven major federal food programs created specifically for children: National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Special Milk Program, Child and Adult Food Program, Summer Food Service Program, Team Nutrition and Community Food Systems. These are multi-billion-dollar programs that have been developed and implemented throughout the country to supplement meals for children in need, and their focus should be serving the one in six underprivileged children Sanders keeps mentioning.
If Sanders has a true passion for addressing food scarcity in public schools and observes a failure in one of the above seven programs, he and the rest of Congress ought to make reforming them a priority. Sanders’ current job, which he shares with only 99 other people, and the platform he has on the U.S. Senate floor, give him a pretty big microphone with which to draw attention to this issue.
But instead of doing the job he was elected to do, Sanders is running a presidential campaign comprised of solutions in search of a problem. If there are one in six children suffering from food scarcity who should be receiving the benefits of a booming economy that funds seven federal child food programs, then I suggest Sen. Sanders do his job in the Senate.
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We should go in the other direction. Do food stamp allowances reflect the availability of free school lunches and sometimes breakfasts for the poor? Whether the federal government should be paying for children's meals at all is arguable, but it certainly should not be paying twice.
“Free for all” is all about smashing the stigma around taking government handouts.
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Whether the federal government should be paying for children’s meals at all is arguable, but it certainly should not be paying twice.
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“Arguable”? If said parent\guardian(s) cannot provide FOOD for their brood\charges, why are they not being taken-away+? And, if continue to procreate, not prosecuted?
Rhetorical, I know...grow govt.
How many of these "one out of six" are morbidly obese?
In the northern VT city of St. Albans, with a total population of less than 7000, there were a dozen different locations this past summer where kids could get free breakfast and lunch.
It’s obviously too great a burden to expect a parent to feed their offspring.
This might even lead to not allowing children to bring food from home.
There isn’t anything else the dude can come up with that truly NEEDS improving?
IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!!! SO IS ABORTION!
When was the last time a school kid partispated or completed the presidential physical fitness test? Timed 600 yards, timed 40, standing broad jump, over hand hang time, vertical jump, running broad jump. Hell when was the last time a kid had to climb a cargo net to the top of the gym or climb a rope the same height?
Expecting this loopey geezer to fix anything at all is demanding he function way beyond his pay grade. His only skill is taking money from those who made it and throwing it away, after taking his cut, like the pure socialist he is.
Get rid of half the administrators in each school district and I might be closer to being for it.
“... the notion that one out of six children don’t know where their next meal is coming from.”
One out of six? Maybe one out of 60 at worse.
SNAP benefits probably should be placed on a weekly payout basis [every Thursday, in time to catch the supermarket sales] since they are now electronically dispensed. Weekly distribution would help even out food availability for the feckless.
You don’t understand. With the kickback he gets from his name attached to yet another stupid program, he could buy another lakefront house.
This is a meaningless question.
I am an a grown ass man and I rarely know where my next meal is coming from.
Once I get hungry, I figure out what i want to eat. I still don't know where the food is coming from until I go get it.
Of course the kids don't know where their next meal is coming from. It could be MickeyD’s or Popeyes. they don't know till it walks through the door.
Maybe they should ask if the kids get enough to eat or are they hungry instead of playing word games.
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When was the last time a school kid partispated or completed the presidential physical fitness test? Timed 600 yards, timed 40, standing broad jump, over hand hang time, vertical jump, running broad jump. Hell when was the last time a kid had to climb a cargo net to the top of the gym or climb a rope the same height?
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They can’t pass the 3 R’s...what’s physical acuity going to provide?
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