One in three US students gets his or her stinking lunch paid for by the federal leviathan.
So many reasons this is a dark bit of news:
Planned decline - the Freedom-Hater overlords are pleased as punch that the masses have been brought to their knees economically.
Intrusion - Since the leviathan is footing the bill (actually, you and I are), they can reserve the right to impose all that "healthy" crud that kids are throwing right in the trash can all across the nation.
Abolishing of the local level of government - Not only are you paying for the lunches of the kids down the block, you're also paying for them for kids across the continent.
Destruction of the family - subsidized lunch means one less parenting consideration for the mind-numbed comrades to have to fool with.
The National School Lunch Act was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman in 1946. Is that when your ilk thinks we lost America? Niggers still sat in the back of the bus then.
ReplyDeleteYou really expect to let your attempt at making some kind of equivalence between federally subsidized school lunch and locally bigoted customs and laws from decades ago go without being exposed for the intellectual shoddiness that it is?
ReplyDeleteDo you think it was a good thing for Harry Truman to sign that into law? If so, why?
Was useage of the program anywhere near what it is now? Why not?
Intellectual shoddiness? I am merely reminding you that this too is not part of your continued idiotic claim that this is part of planned decline by our current "overlords" as you call them since the lunch subsidies have been law since before we were born into, I guess you would call it post-America following our great victory in WWII vs. the forces of true darkness. Yes, I think it was a good thing. You need to remember that we had just emerged from a horrid decade of scarcity and worse for a large percentage of our population caused by, it has been and will continue to be argued, a catastrophic failure of free market capitalism. If the body is not nourished the brain cannot properly function. That was as true then as it is now. The giveaway GI Bill has been credited for the largest economic expansion the world has ever known too. Old Age & Survivor's Insurance was a good thing too.
ReplyDeleteOnto usage of the program. No, I doubt whether usage was as high then as now, but I believe that St. Bernard's Elementary School in Wabash, IN, where I went was the beneficiary of the program as well. Our lunches were $.40 a day. Of course the idea, stated or unstated, is that, as we individually succeed by some combination of individual effort and luck, that we will continue to give back. I suspect that usage has gone up for several reasons, but largely because the negro problem has not yet been resolved and we have a lot more little brown ones running around whose parents (actually so-called "Republicans who don't know it yet" (if we can wax intellectually shoddy here and generalize), given their fealty to family and traditional values). I know you want to ship the brown ones home if you can, even though your hero gave them the last amnesty deferring to the man who needed their near-slave labor to bring in the crops in Cali and we all looked the other way during the succeeding 3 decades as they came here in droves and the man kept hiring them in violation of the law. The other reason is that employment opportunities remain dismal for many and this has been ongoing since the beginning of the lost decade commencing with our preoccupation with matters Middle Eastern in 2001 during which China and Latin America became ascendant. (Incidentally, that preoccupation has contributed to our unprecedented budget deficit as much as the near-economic meltdown occurring at the end of Bush's watch.) There are company towns in Mexico and China that are thriving today whilst the towns their corporations abandoned here in America are mere shells of what they were while we were growing up. Of course you blame high corporate tax rates here for their departure. Whatever, what we have here today is not planned decline. You serve your cause poorly by continuing to condend thus. Will more free lunches work? I don't know. These people have already hit bottom and I'm not sure they will ever climb out of it. Some will, but the bulk will not. I pray we all will. Can't speak for you. Long live American public education, public libraries (in whatever form may evolve in this current information age) and, yes, subsidized lunches. Knock a few bucks off your tithe and call it being with the Beatitudes. Blessed are those.....
1.) Why is the government morally justified from forcibly seizing the money from someone in, oh, say, Columbus, Indiana or Orlando, Florida to pay for some kid's lunch in, say, Montana, Delaware or Hawaii? Isn't proper feeding of such a kid his parents' responsibility?
ReplyDelete2.) Re: sending "brown ones" home: only if they're here illegally.
3.) We were preoccupied with the middle east because it was and is crawling with jihadists and tyrants determined to lay waste to Western civilization.
4.) No business is obligated to keep a town from becoming a mere shell. That's not why businesses exist.
5.) Some off-the-cuff evidence that the Democrats, particularly those in this administration, are very definitely orchestrating planned decline: the MEC's promise that "you can build a new coal-fired power plant, but it will bankrupt you," or Transportation Secretary LaHood's acknowledgment that it is administration policy to get people out of one-passenger cars and into mass / public means of getting around. But most importantly, the stubbornly high unemployment rate and the ongoing shrinkage of the work force. Everybody knows that the Democrats' constant threat of yet more of a tax burden is the overwhelmingly main reason this is so. Then there's the "lead-from-behind" approach to foreign policy.
That should read "justified in forcibly seizing"
ReplyDelete1.) Why is the government morally justified from forcibly seizing the money from someone in, oh, say, Columbus, Indiana or Orlando, Florida to pay for some war, say in the Middle East? The 1st federal tax on Americans was to finance the Civil War. A majority of the populace has supported various social and other collectivist programs, including your much maligned public sewers, real and metaphorical.
ReplyDelete2.) Re: sending "brown ones" home: only if they're here illegally. Not gonna happen. Way to expensive. Why didn't your Ronnie send them all home when it would have been cheaper? I suppose his hands were tied by the man who needed their near-slave labor.
3.) We were preoccupied with the middle east because it was and is crawling with jihadists and tyrants determined to lay waste to Western civilization. OK, I'll buy that. Get out your wallet wherever you are to finance future incursions.
4.) No business is obligated to keep a town from becoming a mere shell. That's not why businesses exist. I'll buy that too. Government cannot even begin to pick up the slack.
There are also a whole heap of a lot of folks here who want to work too, rather than suck off the government tit, but are thankful for at least that. You would have them all fend for themselves.
5.) If there ain't no place to work, well there's no place to work. How is that planned decline to be siding with the anthropomorphic global warming faction? The science is still inconclusive, although actually I don't think it is man made. Something dire, however, is definitely happening.
Dunno about planned decline but methinks you long forb it. At least over the next 3 years, 10 mos.
DeleteOh, for heaven's sake ; there is no more glaring example of planned decline than public policy based on some cockamamie notion that the "planet" is in some kind of trouble due to human activity. Windmills and solar panels are not the energy sources of a robust superpower.
ReplyDeleteYou may not be wrong that a majority of the populace now goes in for collectivist crud like school lunches. That's why I call this blog Late in the Day. Memo to the American people: remember your dignity and your freedom. There's still time to rethink your decision to be cattle.
God what a sore loser. Aren't we free to think (and fail) too?
ReplyDeleteYou're free to fail - on your own dime.
ReplyDeleteCuomo says its definitely happening, as one would expect. Dunno bout Christie, but both of them have their hands out for fed $$. How many biil has FEMA shelled out vby now? The bjanks and various corps want us to pay for their cyber security. Baah, I just want my social security and medicare which, despite my paying the premiums, your ilk calls them entitlements. Oh, gotta feed that war machine too.
ReplyDeleteWhat you paid in went back out a loooooong time ago.
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