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Governors of 15 states opt out of summer food program for children
https://baptistnews.com ^ | Jan 15, 2024

Posted on 01/16/2024 4:48:10 AM PST by 11th_VA

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To: 11th_VA

Yes ,let the parents do THEIR JOB and the children get a little less brainwashing


21 posted on 01/16/2024 5:53:06 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: 11th_VA

The dirty secret of the government and the agriculture lobby: Every food program the government has instituted has resulted in obesity. It is well documented but not publicized.

The kids get breakfast, lunch and take-home dinners for the family and get fat.


22 posted on 01/16/2024 5:53:09 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: 11th_VA

Putting Principal ahead of buying votes.


23 posted on 01/16/2024 6:04:41 AM PST by DeWalt (Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.)
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To: 11th_VA
Child nutrition advocates..

Translation: Unnamed ranting Marxist trashbags.

24 posted on 01/16/2024 6:11:29 AM PST by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: 11th_VA

Good for them. It is the responsibility of the parents to feed their children. My parents fed me and I fed my children. Let the parents spend some of their drug and alcohol money for food for their children.


25 posted on 01/16/2024 6:22:05 AM PST by sport
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To: dfwgator

Amen to that. If you don’t want to feed them, don’t have them. I fed mine.


26 posted on 01/16/2024 6:26:35 AM PST by sport
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To: mewzilla

‘The bureaucrats will benefit far, far more than the people they purport to serve.’
So true. Try taking something away from the paper pushers.. see how they whale and accuse others.


27 posted on 01/16/2024 6:41:49 AM PST by Track9 (Matches for sale.. get your matches!)
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To: Track9
From 1963...

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

28 posted on 01/16/2024 6:43:33 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: 11th_VA

On the one hand, there are any number of ways in which benefits can be misused.

On the other hand, $40 a month does not seem sufficient to feed a child.

And handouts are just plain wrong. They remove the incentive to better oneself and get a well-paying job. At the very least, anyone who is able-bodied should have to perform some kind of work in exchange for the handout.


29 posted on 01/16/2024 6:48:18 AM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Mice in my house that fell for that scam ended up dead.


30 posted on 01/16/2024 6:49:19 AM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: 11th_VA

These programs are 1% aid and 99% federal demands for compliance with a litany of unrelated federal programs.

School lunch programs have been this way since shortly after their creation—strong arms to force school districts to comply with all kinds of social engineering crapola.

About five years ago, some districts did the math and found out that the costs of compliance were *greater* than the money they got. Especially requirements to hire “woke” employees to indoctrinate the kids. The salary to pay such parasites costs as much as thousands of “free” meals.


31 posted on 01/16/2024 6:53:32 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: exDemMom

“And handouts are just plain wrong.”

You’re looking at it from the point of view of human compassion, behavior, incentives, responses to those incentives, etc.

But, the objective is NOT to feed the needy. Nope, the objective pure & simple is to BUY DEMOCRAT VOTES.


32 posted on 01/16/2024 6:56:40 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: mewzilla

I believe it was the same for Obamacare. The Feds started out paying the majority of the funds for a period of time, then the states had to start paying more and more of the cost until the states were responsible for the majority of the funds. Rick Scott was our governor at the time and I believe he opted out. IIRC


33 posted on 01/16/2024 7:02:53 AM PST by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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To: 11th_VA

$40 equates to one happy meal per month per child.


34 posted on 01/16/2024 7:09:47 AM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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We already have 15+ Food Assistance Programs. Do we need another one? Here are just 13...

https://www.waterford.org/resources/food-assistance-programs-for-families/


35 posted on 01/16/2024 7:29:53 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: 11th_VA

In my misguided youth, I helped out in the Black Panther free breakfast program, which was used to indoctrinate black children. None of them looked hungry or underfed. Some looked quite overfed.


36 posted on 01/16/2024 7:39:31 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: mewzilla

Thanks!


37 posted on 01/16/2024 7:47:13 AM PST by Track9 (Matches for sale.. get your matches!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Deep State controls states through the budgets.

Don’t do what Deep State demand, find your federal aid yanked.

No state in the union has a plan in place for that eventuality.

There’s not a truly red state in the nation.


38 posted on 01/16/2024 7:50:04 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: 11th_VA

EBT benefits are aimed primarily on feeding the kids in the family. So why do families need an extra $40/mo/kid during the summer? Well, the kids don’t receive free school breakfasts and lunches during the summer (except that many do in fact get fed during the summer as well). School lunches aren’t subtracted from the basic EBT benefit and now the gov’t feels it necessary to add extra money in the summer.

You cannot expect parents to feed their kids apparently.


39 posted on 01/16/2024 8:02:23 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: mewzilla

‘vineyards were rooted out, and buildings were de­stroyed to escape taxation….’


40 posted on 01/16/2024 8:15:00 AM PST by Track9 (Matches for sale.. get your matches!)
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