Posted on 06/24/2022 1:21:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Congress passed a bill Friday that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all students this summer.
Final passage of the Keep Kids Fed Act in the U.S. House came less than a week before rule changes for child nutrition programs were set to expire June 30.
“Our action today staves off a dangerous hunger cliff: ensuring universal free meals for all children throughout this summer, while helping schools keep up supply chain snags and rising costs for the upcoming school year,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, in a statement.
The bill now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature.
The legislation is intended to extend the rules that were adopted soon after COVID-19 disrupted schools nationwide so that summer meal distribution sites could operate in any community with need, rather than just where there’s a high concentration of low-income children, and offer to-go meals.
Rules that have allowed all students to receive meals for free at school, regardless of family income level, are still set to expire before the next academic year.
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Keep Americans fed up.
In other words Kongress steals more money from the taxpayers and uses it to give the indolent more spare money to buy beer cigarettes dope and scratch off lotto tickets
I’ve seen school lunches.
UGH!
What’s wrong?
Parents can’t make a PB&J?
How many kids are in school during the summer?!
Why is congress supporting irresponsible parenting?!
I worked in a school meals program in SF where they decided to keep it going through the summer. This was in the early 70s. Most of the people who actually came every day to eat there were adults, mostly black although the nabe was Hispanic.
The Hispanic kids didn’t come because they ate at home, some black kids did show up, nobody was starving, and it really ended up with us setting up a place for older adults to sit and pretend to eat the hideous cafeteria food and just hang out in a safe space away from the projects down the street.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Pay up, taxpayers!!!!
How many months of additional inflation tinkering is required to offset this freebie?
We knew that the free lunch wasn’t ever going to be temporary, with the excuse of the pandemic.
How many kids are in school during the summer?!
Why is congress supporting irresponsible parenting?!
Also the ‘free’ lunches are not deducted from the families’ Food Stamp allocation.
You forgot 40’s of Olde English.
Where I live-—RURAL-—those free meals were delivered with full sized buses-—NOT cars....
Expensive fuel & upkeep.
"Congress approves free student meal extension through summer"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the post-17th Amendment ratification, unconstitutionally big federal government the specific power to tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes, including for school lunches.
Paying particular attention to the clarification of the fed's limited powers by President Thomas Jefferson and Justice Joseph Story, consider the following excerpts concerning the fed's constitutionally limited powers by respected constitutional experts.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphases added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The bottom line on unconstitutional election year legislation by corrupt career federal lawmakers is this. Beginning in 2023, Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters need to work with their new, Trump-endorsed federal and state lawmakers to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers according to the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above.
Once the states eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their revenues, the following will happen imo.
Each state will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that each state can use to feed schoolchildren, also increase teacher, police and fire department salaries, and fix infrastructure for starters imo.
In fact, Justice Louis Brandeis had introduced his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to encourage the states to experiment with their own social spending programs, ultimately depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of each state want.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
And to make such changes permanent, Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters also need to work with state lawmakers to effectively secede ALL the states from the big, bad federal government by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments.
In the meanwhile...
Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
My brief introduction of school meals was that there was a breakfast lunch and dinner and weekend and then when parents couldn’t show up they had takeouts. So what happens to the food stamps? I guess they sell those for 50% of the value and buy cigarettes and alcohol or casino lottery winnings.
My brief introduction of school meals was that there was a breakfast lunch and dinner and weekend and then when parents couldn’t show up they had takeouts. So what happens to the food stamps? I guess they sell those for 50% of the value and buy cigarettes and alcohol or casino lottery winnings.
I’ll get flamed for this, but providing even the minimal nutrition of a school lunch is part of being pro-life and protecting children OUTSIDE the womb.
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