What's a more basic responsibility than feeding your kids?

MikeDamone

Kaepsknee said:

MikeDamone said:

Kaepsknee said:

MikeDamone said:

Kaepsknee said:

I don’t hate the school lunch thing.

I do. Not because I hate kids getting food. I hate the message it sends to kids and parents. They state will take care of your simplest and most basic needs. Parents no longer need to even put in an effort to provide. A dangerous message that has consequences that we see now and will in the future.

Seriously, how hard is it to get your kids some food before they head out. They don't need a full blown giant country breakfast. Boil some eggs on Sunday night and they can have them all week. Even now eggs can be bought for 25 cents each. Add it some oatmeal and you have something that takes almost no time and costs less than $1.

And the food they feed the kids is garbage.

This just allows kids and parents to be lazier and fatter and good training for when the government tells them what to do.

Arguments in favor usually succumb to the "won't someone think of the children" logical fallacy. An appeal to emotion.

I remember when being on free/reduced lunch was a stigma that parents wanted to avoid and get out of if they got into that position. It was temporary and transitional for most.

The price of food has went up 30% at the stores as a whole in the last year. Despite the bullshit inflation numbers.

Certain items like bread and some select produce have been immune from this type of drastic price increase. But most items have not.

Couple this with gas and power to your home, and you have many in the lower middle class struggling. The ones that don’t get food stamps because they work for a living and see their rent go up every year as well.

I can live with giving them some help when needed. Much better than throwing half of a trillion overseas every year for mostly nothing.

Free lunch for all started way before current inflation. And it's not just poor who are getting it. It's ever student. Read the post.

People can afford food for their kids if they prioritize it. Instead the government provides the lunches and I guarantee you you'll find the parent buying weed, smokes, alcohol and tattoos. Also the top of the line cable/satellite package.

Get the kid knowing the government takes care of them, not the parents. It takes a village,etc. it's easier to control them later when they are trained early. Also make sure the brown kids are oppressed victims and the government will even the playing field for them and ensure outcomes without them putting in any effort.

Are you saying giving kids free lunch means we won't be sending billions overseas?

No.

Then why did you make the comment?

Interesting. I didn't have you pegged as an emotional thinker. I was wrong I guess.