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Old 08-08-2012, 12:33 PM
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There was an article on FoxNews website that talks about the free federally funded lunches being given out during the summer by various non-profits that any kid under 18, no matter what their family income level, can receive.

Tonight I attended a school board meeting in which the board was informed that all the students who attend schools in our school district will be receiving free breakfast and lunch, no matter what their family income. It's being done by what is called Provision 2. When a school district has an enrollment of 75% students who are below the poverty level , they can apply for this program and as a result, for 4 years at least, often longer, they give all the students two free meals each school day. The schools don't have to collect and process any applications, keep track of meal application or meal categories, or conduct verification for at least three out of four years at most. Yes you read that right!!! There is very little oversight.

Mind you, most of these families receive food stamps, WIC, and some receive cash aid!!!!

This program has been going on for many years, since the 80's. But very few take notice because they say it's for the "kids". Well, those kids are now so fat and have such a feeling of entitlement that really makes this whole concept a real joke. Are these kids or their parents to lazy to slap to pieces of bread together and make a PB&J? Or put a bowl of cereal and milk in front of them in the morning? My mother sure did, and if I was to lazy to make my lunch, well I went hungry, but whose fault was that? Where's the responsibility on the part of the parents and students? They should not be our responsibility or a double payment of our taxes.
Jean,

The program was signed into law in June 1946 by Harry S. Truman and was originated by Congressman Richard B. Russell. The program used to have accountability, but I believe that's been removed and replace with a 4 year accounting scheme which has more holes than swiss cheese and greatly susceptible to fraud https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...HMyMjOQ3lT6qHg. 74 pages.

The rational is that it reduces application burdens and simplifies meal counting and claiming procedures http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/governan..._FactSheet.htm

While a long, unintelligible drone with all the lawyerese, amendments, and repeals http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/42C13.txt, the original intent of the National School Lunch Act seems to have been rooted in a desire to prop up farm commodity prices by purchasing and using farm surplus food products rather than paying not to grow.

I haven't seen that premise in the background discussion of the bill (because I haven't found it yet) or any direct quote from anyone originally involved, but it is alluded to around the internet and I did find a statement (by inclusion) in a google books rendition of American Farm Policy 1948 - 1973 by Willard W. Chochrane and Mary E. Ryan http://In which the bill was somethi...201946&f=false (scroll up to chapter heading then read through)

I thought about getting it, but the book retails for $60.00.

Wading through the incomprehensible fog of the interminable legal text, I perceive the bill has been amended constantly from the mid 1950's to the present, with revisions and amendments becoming an incremental flurry to blizzard sometime from the 1980's. I'd have to print it out and study it to find if the original text exists.

I don't think it's the same bill at all that it was in 1946, and I believe that in some cases adults qualify for free meals on the program without being associated with any form of education being performed.

Full name of the act:

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79 P.L. 396; 79 Cong. Ch. 281; 60 Stat. 230, H.R. 3370, PUBLIC LAW, NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT, JUNE 4, 1946, UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE 79TH CONGRESS - 2ND SESSION
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