The High Cost of a Free Lunch

Townhall.com ^ | March 14, 2008 | Burt Prelutsky

[MrB]

The benign bias analysis does have merit.

Leftists are too intellectually lazy to go beyond the 11 yr old girl analysis of issues:

“is this ‘nice’ or ‘mean’?”

Letting people suffer the consequences for their behaviors is “mean”. Alleviating those consequences using wealth confiscate from those not making poor decisions is “nice”.

[Drawsing]

I learned that the federal government spends well over eight billion dollars a year supplying over 30 million school children with “free” lunches and another two-and-a-half billion on “free” breakfasts.

I remember my father telling me about walking to school with his lunch pail to the small rural school. Wrapped up in a cloth were a couple of biscuits with a little country ham in the middle. He remembers being embarrassed because they couldn't afford "store-bought" bread like some of the kids had.

[Arrowhead1952]

I remember my father telling me about walking to school with his lunch pail to the small rural school. Wrapped up in a cloth were a couple of biscuits with a little country ham in the middle. He remembers being embarrassed because they couldn't afford "store-bought" bread like some of the kids had.

I did the same going to parochial school in rural central Texas in the mid - late 50s. We seldom had "store bought" bread for sandwiches. Nowadays, I prefer homemade bread to the "store bought", even if it is made with a bread maker and mix.

[sergeantdave]

Yes, I should have qualified it, but the meaning was clear to me. How’s this:

The 20th century produced some of the worst liberal presidents in the 20th century.

[P8ri0]

Marxist Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan is ready to take the next step, “Some children should not go home at night; some of them we need 24-7.”
See today’s Chicago Tribune titled: “No small plan: Public boarding schools for Chicago.
School chief wants to launch first residential program as early as 2009.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-boarding-schools_14mar14,1,2452750.story

[Mr. Jeeves]

The mere fact that he and his economic advisors thought it made perfect sense to keep raising taxes during the 1930s suggests that their primary motive wasn’t to lift the country out of its economic morass, but to take advantage of the situation to inflate the power of the federal government.

Now if one looks carefully at the parallels between that statement and how the current Administration and both major parties have run the "War on Terror" one will realize that the goal never changes, only the pretext.

[tbw2]

And you can’t use soynut butter, or else someone with soy allergies will scream.
I’ve bought hazelnut butter, to try with my kids. We’ll see if that solves the dilema.

[iopscusa]

Yep the WOT was in my mind when posting, it is the nature of Government to seek power and it will fearlessly use fear to do so.
It may be time to try to Kill the Beast!

[Christian4Bush]

mark

[Smokin' Joe]

bfl. Who would have thought it? The Communist threat is alive and well. McCarthy was right.