Posted on 08/08/2020 6:29:06 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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Philadelphia, which closed pools, recreation centers, and libraries in this pandemic summer, has doubled down on its 300 PlayStreets. A nearly 60-year-old tradition, once mostly a vehicle to distribute meals during the “hungry season” for schoolkids, they are now meal service, summer camp, and field trip all in one. Backpacks, art kits, super-soakers, and games were distributed citywide. Fifty blocks, including Alden Street, were designated “super streets” — where high levels of poverty and violence would be met with extra resources and programming, like play equipment, DJ dance parties, and mural-making
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If they just got rid of the police and stopped incarcerating black men then this wouldn’t happen.
Democrats have controlled Philly for 60 years.
Why isnt it an utopia?
Like the dumb a## tip jar stealing waitress, what does a no police environment look like? the suburbs.
It's what you get when community organizers hire marketing consultants to "sell" spending programs. Can't just throw money around without a cause to spend it on, unless you are a Kennedy.
They have a simple response.
You have not given us enough money yet!
Don’t care. Democrat problems. Maybe they should tear down some more statues.
Whu eould they be hungry?
The parent gets taxpayer money for food
So we soend more money feeding them and the parent spends the fod money we gave on manicures
What was the tragedy?
Summer is “the hungry season” because the children have to depend on the adults in their lives to provide food for them, as opposed to being given food at school, including food to take home for the weekend, lest they have to depend on the adults in their lives to provide food for them.
At least one adult per child is a parent/guardian who is being provided with money and/or free food specifically for the purpose of feeding the child. Yet, the child has no food, and it is all the fault of “society.”
Exactomundo. It’s Econ 101: If you subsidize something, you’re guaranteed more of it. The more you spend on “feeding programs,” the hungrier the recipients get. Fatter and more prone to the sugars (diabeetus) too, but that’s a whole ‘nother matter.
I teach in a place where kids are probably kept in a lot. This summer we visited my in laws on the south Shore of MA. Quiet neighborhood filled with families with kids. From early morning until evening they played, they laughed, the swam and screamed. All in a safe atmosphere. It was so nice to see.
You would be shocked at the number of kids being raised in homes where they don’t regularly get food. Instead of removing kids from these abusive households, they create programs to “fill the gap.”
My sister was volunteering through her church to help one homeless mom with 4 beautiful little boys. She would deliver food, bags of groceries, toiletries, etc.
At Christmas, she purchased, with several hundred dollars of her own money, clothes, sneakers, and toys for the kids (the family had moved to a cheap long-term stay hotel and the mom got her room for free in exchange for working as a cleaning lady there).
The three younger boys were so excited to open their gifts and enjoy their things; they showered my very loving sister with hugs and kisses. The oldest boy thanked her but looked wary throughout; she couldn’t understand why.
When she came back the next week, she understood.
All the gifts she brought were gone. Their drug addicted father had shown up, taken everything, and sold it for pennies on the dollar to buy drugs for himself. Mom refused to press charges. The younger kids were so downtrodden and the oldest had a zombie stare, like he had seen it all a million times before.
My sister knew that any future generosity would meet the same fate and only brought them edible treats and inexpensive trinkets moving forward.
She worked as best she could with authorities to protect those kids. A few months later, “mom” packed them up and moved.
There are literally thousands of truly shitty people masquerading as parents out there.
It is a scam, and we have thousands of innocent kids in every major city that go hungry because their parents sell their food aid for cash.
I don’t care a bit about the parents, I care about those innocent babies. They didn’t ask for it.
The system is so broken.
We give them food stamps and feed their kids three free meals a day at school as well. Makes one wonder where the food stamps are going.
In Michigan due to COVID: The food assistance benefits will go to Michigan families with students ages 5-18 who are enrolled in the Michigan Department of Education program for students eligible for free or reduced-price school meals and will reach approximately 895,000 students. This includes families currently receiving Food Assistance Program benefits as well as those not currently enrolled in the program.
ligible families not currently receiving food assistance benefits will receive in the mail a pre-loaded Electronic Benefits Transaction (EBT) card – known as a Bridge Card – issued under the name of the oldest student in the household.
The amount of EBT benefits will be no less than the total amount of free or reduced-cost school lunch benefits that the family would have received during the time that school is closed. The benefits will include $193.80 per eligible student to cover the months of March and April and an additional $182.40 per student to cover May and June combined.
On top of all the food banks for free food every day every week.
$193 per child and then additional $182 per child. With 4 kids in a family they received $1500 from the program.
Pat Buchanan said it best years ago, when he pointed out that civilized countries used to send missionaries to foreign lands to correct the dysfunctional behaviors and disordered morals that have now become commonplace and socially accepted here in the U.S.
Very true.
Yes, indeed. There is no excuse for any parent to allow their kid to be malnourished. Of course, if the parents were responsible adults, they wouldn’t need the government to pay for their food in the first place.
The most important health problem of the poor in America is obesity. That tells you all you need to know about “hunger” in America.
When I first read that, I thought: "Wow, you know, $50 a day is a decent amount to feed a family." Then I realized you meant $1500 per week, not per month. That's a lot of booze and Fentanyl.
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