Free meals for all Detroit schoolchildren in fall (18 year old, abortions, politicians)

[Cindy_Jole]

Originally Posted by Zimbochick

Amazing that people would begrudge little kids getting a decent meal. Ain't family values grand?

So your idea of family values = having other people pay for your children's daily meals?

[BruSan]

Yep; one more example of how those darn British are so much more socialized than the U.S.. Bullcrap!

[70Ford]

I had free lunch as a kid for a few years. If you get hungry enough, you can & will get past the stigma. (ROFL, what stigma, a free lunch is a free lunch.)

P.S. My friends, who weren't on free lunch, thought it was cool. I got free food and gave them the free stuff I didnt want. It was a win/win situation for all.

Another thing is that kids are dumb. If you're lunch is paid for, you can only eat lunch. If you have money in your pocket, hey, save most of it, grab a bag of chips and a coke.. and then go buy some weed. .. .... ..... / just sayin'

[rhawkins74]

Originally Posted by Aganusn

Do conservatives think everyone can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become successful just like that? You do realize that with 6 billion people on the planet, not everyone is going to have money, right? This is why dirty liberals like us are in favor of things like abortion, birth control, education, regulated capitalism etc lol.

except we are talking about kids from all economical backgrounds getting free lunches on the tax payers dime. Not just the poor.

[Alltheusernamesaretaken]

Originally Posted by whatyousay

What kid is starving? Have you looked around the poor neighborhoods? They are filled with overweight kids.

Exactly.

The poor kids here look exactly the oppposite of the poor kids in, say, Somalia.

If they are fat and unhealthy, it is because their parents are choosing to give them
cheap sugary soda instead of FREE water to drink.

Other cheap, crap foods apply as well.
If you can buy Chef Boyardee with your gov't assistance, you can
also buy peanut butter and bread.

No sympathy from me on that.
The parents make crap choices, period.

[mackinac81]

Originally Posted by h0tmess

I agree they are worthless too.
But why should I be forced to pay for other people's children? Why are people having kids they can't afford? Not my responsibility.

Good point, but it's still not the kids' fault. Would you rather they starve to death? That said, I think you should qualify, unlless Detroit decided that there were so few people who wouldn't qualify (which is plausible in Detroit) that they just said "to hell with it".

Originally Posted by maja

Great! Its a pilot program, so we can look forward to soon having it spread to schools all across the country once these kids complete the trial phase and fill out the form reporting that they no longer feel "stigmatized" for eating on our dime because even the kids who don't need the free breakfast, lunch & snacks get them! That's swell. Gotta spend all our country's excess money somewhere!

Get a grip. So one school district does something you don't like, and suddenly everyone's going to do it. Yeah, because every district from Detroit to rural Wyoming is exactly the same. You clearly have no clue how public schools work.

[rhawkins74]

Originally Posted by mackinac81

Good point, but it's still not the kids' fault. Would you rather they starve to death? That said, I think you should qualify, unlless Detroit decided that there were so few people who wouldn't qualify (which is plausible in Detroit) that they just said "to hell with it".



Get a grip. So one school district does something you don't like, and suddenly everyone's going to do it. Yeah, because every district from Detroit to rural Wyoming is exactly the same. You clearly have no clue how public schools work.

It is not a Detroit program, it is a program that is being started in Michigan and 2 other states, not just Detroit, and the USDA is supposed to roll it out to every other state in the US by 2015

This program is NOT about poor kids getting free lunches, because they already do, it is about the non poor kids getting free lunches also.

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by Cindy_Jole

So your idea of family values = having other people pay for your children's daily meals?

And your idea of family values is to let the kids go hungry because we need the money to bomb families in other countries?

[70Ford]

Originally Posted by filihok

Not to me. I'm healthy as ****.

Why should I pay for any of you lazy or genetically inferior bastards.

The whole world would be better off without you. You all increase our healthcare costs.

I don't give a **** how much potential you have, or how much your family loves you, you are an economic drain on me. That's clearly more important

U mad bro?

[20yrsinBranson]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

Obama's America:
Free meals for all Detroit schoolchildren in fall | Detroit Free Press | freep.com (http://www.freep.com/article/20110816/NEWS01/110816004/Free-meals-all-Detroit-schoolchildren-fall - broken link)

Wouldn't it be nice if the schools REQUIRED that at least one parent (since most of these kids only have one parent, anyway), to donate 5 hours of service to the school where their child/children attend?

If you can get them to turn off the television and put down the crack pipe long enough, that is.

Waste of money. Total waste of money.

20yrsinBranson