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Old 08-08-2012, 04:58 PM
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I am aware of where it all started and where it is today. Provision 1,2,3 was added in 1980. But the point I was making is that those that receive foodstamps are receiving payment for food to provide three meals per day to each kid at home. That's 21 meals per week. But the schools are also providing 10 of those meals per week, just about half. Yet, that is not counted as income or credited against the amount of food stamps received. So basically these families are double dipping. They get half of their kids food needs met and still receive the food stamps as though they were providing 100% of their meals. And to add insult to injury, every kid at all the school gets those 10 free meals each week, no matter how wealthy their family may be. Yes, our schools are nothing by socialist establishments all on the tax dollar.

This is going on throughout the country and costing BILLIONS!!!!!
You're right, and I agree 100% with you.

But I'll tell you what the argument is going to be from the other side, and sadly it has some validity due to the culture change starting with the kids born in the late 70's - not the least narcissism delivered to schoolkids with the "you're so special" and everyone gets a trophy routine, then they grow up and become parents who essentially ignore the kids for a decade. That is, until the kids become unmanageable and it's too late. Drugs and alcohol figure in too.

Lots of kids don't have breakfast regardless of how monied or not the parents are, and that brown bag lunch might only have a bag of chips.

I'll tell you right now about how screwed up our society has gotten with all those young men who live with a woman who works and provides for them while they hang out smoking pot and playing video games all day. The kids come in a distant third.

What's going to change it all? Will the system have to be overloaded until it implodes, or is there a viable way to fix it before that happens? The politicians aren't going to fix it.
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