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I get really fired up on this one too. In WA state, the have free lunch/reduced lunches for .60 cents. Meanwhile I (if my daughter eats at school) has to pony up $1.75. These lunches aren't free or reduced, they are subsidized by me and you. I don't have a problem with helping those in need. But isn't that what WIC is for and other social programs? My mother raised us (3 children) all alone without any assistance or free lunches or food stamps. We went without many material things, but we always had food. Why don't people realize that we are not helping people with handouts....we are simply enslaving them to the system.

$1.75 is kinda steep for a school breakfast. Ours is a buck, I think.

Well, that's just it. Most of the parents who take advantage of these lunches will be sure to spend $3 a day on cigarettes or else those kids will be wearing brand name clothing head to toe.

My BIL and his wife had a daughter a few years ago. She got on WIC. But, they always made it a point to have their daughter in POLO clothes and brand name sneakers.