Posted on 03/17/2005 12:25:18 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
At one of my old jobs there was a manager who made a very, very nice living. She quite proudly told us that every year she applies for section 8 housing (I don't know if that's national or a local program, people get apartments with very reduced rent, most of the time under $100) and welfare. We were shocked and asked her why. She said, "Why not?? If the government is giving it out I might as well get my share."
Thank you thank you thank you!!
From a life long Badger who is looking for somewhere ELSE to retire.
Breakfast is like fixin' to take a nap while leaving for work.
"But, they always made it a point to have their daughter in POLO clothes and brand name sneakers."
That stuff doesn't bother me. As a Mom who could've easily afforded those types of clothes for her kids, I bought them...used, at Goodwill, LOL! Maybe your SIL is doing the same? It's amazing to me what the Rich Folk donate, but it makes the rest of us look good, too.
That whole "designer duds" fight started for me when the kids were 12 years old or so. If they wanted "designer" they bought it with their alloted breakfast meal money and went hungry. (Just kiddin'!)
I'm really surprised there hasn't been ONE voice of dissent here on this issue. I thought for sure some bleeding heart would show up and accuse us of starving little non-aborted children and being Evil Conservatives. Maybe it's still too early? ;)
I worked for a grocer many years ago....and very few people used the program as it should be used. My very first day a woman came through my line with $100 worth of crab. At that time I had never even tried crab. After a few years of witnessing these types of abuse you get very jaded about Food Stamp programs.
Some of the people suggesting these programs really do care about the kids who are not fed before school. I am grateful there are people like them in the world to look out for those who really need help.
That said, I do think the number of people who will enrols their children in these programs will be much larger than it needs to be. The kids get to be at school 30 minutes earlier each morning, so the parents don't have to make breakfast and can go about their other business sooner. Almost free food, free childcare - they will be signing up like crazy.
I'm sure the "food" served also rates a "Barf Alert".
I must have missed it - why is this bad?
Wisconsin is 50th in the nation when it comes to the number of schools that offer breakfast programs, and the number of low-income students
And don't they think there might be a correlation between these two items?
Yup, just what our kids need - more time in the government-run Education Centers and less time with the family. A perfect strategy for the RATS.
How could they be? They get free cereal, milk and orange juice through WIC and they get hundreds of dollars in food stamps for anything else they might want to eat. I have worked with children's programs where some of the kids participating were from low-income homes, and the common denominator was laziness. The children frequently didn't even make it to school, because none of the "adults" (all female) in the house could drag themselves out of bed early enough to get the kids up and ready for school.
Wait, are they complaining that Wisconsin doesn't have enough poor students?
LMAO!
When is the government going to decide to give every kid a split level? It's not fair that some kids have their own bedroom to study in and other kids don't. What? Doesn't the government like kids?
I'll never forget two similar instances I witnessed, years apart and in two different states. The first, a man in his 40s or 50s buying nothing but potato chips and jars of pimientos at a grocery store in St. Louis, and paying with food stamps. The second, a man in his early 20s at a 7Eleven in WV, buying candy, and paying with food stamps. What a world.
When I was a kid, my Dad got paid monthly. Once a month. A broken car or refrigerator or some other unexpected expense (doctor, dentist, etc.) and we ate lots of hot dogs and baked beans at the end of the month. My mother actually served Spam from time to time. It was rare that my mother would give me a quarter to buy lunch. She packed lunches for me and all my brothers every day. Sandwich, apple, cookie....
With the wonders of socialism, as handed to us by the scumbag Democrats and their allies in the scumbag liberal newsrooms, the parasite class (the Democrat "base") now believes it is "entitled" to reach into my wallet to feed their kids. I don't think things have changed for the better.
My 3 year old "makes" cereal for himself & his sister. If these people can't handle feed their kids breakfast, I'm shocked they were able to figure out how to reproduce.
"I must have missed it - why is this bad?"
Because they get extra money from the state/feds for having poor kids in the school, the more the "better".
I wonder what they want to serve for breakfast. At my high school they served breakfast, but instead of buying an entire breakfast, you could buy the individual items. On the days I got breakfast, I would get either a cinnamon roll or a Twix bar. Yummy, but probably not what nutritionists would recommend for breakfast. Also, a lot of kids at that school probably don't need breakfast because they have lunch so early. (First lunch was at 10:30 the last I heard.)
I agree with you. Those children that truly are coming to school hungry should have a chance to eat. Most children should and are fed at home. I'm a conservative and against a lot of forms of welfare. I just don't think it's fair to punish the children for the sins of the parents. We should be pushing for tighter regulations of social aid programs so that these programs aren't necessary. Unfortunately, however, as long as the parents are able to spend the aid money on alcohol and junk, the ones being punished by not serving breakfast are the children.
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