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I think a few of the libertarians on CD need to spend a week in their libertaian Eutopia...Somalia. Maybe they will gain a new perspective on the benefits of no govt.
Probably the largest part of our foreign aid is sending obsolescent miliatary equipment to allied nations.
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and then go after the free meal program. make the parents prove the kids need the freebie. from what i have seen this program is very abused. it is based on filling out a form and no need for proof like a tax return.
The reduced meal program at schools is a small fraction of what we taxpayers gave to Wall St shysters.
And yet, conservos have their shorts in a knot over raising taxes on these very same crooks.
These programs might have been created with good intentions, but all they've done is perpetuate a system of dependency on the government. What a shame. What was once temporary assistance has become a way of life. Who could possibly be in favor of that???
The DOJ spends a $121 million a year to feed their employees $16 muffins and $10 cookies. Of course you all don't have a problem in the world with that.
Yet you believe that the country is being destroyed by entitlements, when a poor kid from the ghetto gets a free $2 school lunch. This is just more of the rich are entitled and the poor are not.
Since children's attendance in school is required by law, it means that the government has excepted the responsibilities for educating children. Therefor the government should pay 100% of the cost. From transporting the kids to school, to the supplies the child needs, to free breakfasts and lunches for all students.
Second, studies have shown that kids don't learn very well when they are hungry. Which is the main reason that school breakfast and lunch programs where established in the first place. School meals are a legitimate expense for properly educating students.
Hey, here is an ideal thought. Let's void that billion dollar annual payment to Pakistan when it's obvious that they are hoarding terrorist and shooting at U.S. troops across the border! Let's stop spending billions on building aircraft carriers when we already have 12 and the rest of the world's armed forces combined don't even have 6. Do we really need another B2 bomber or billion dollar per plane F22? If we are serious about cutting spending, let's make some real cuts instead of picking on a paltry free lunch program that is costing us literally nothing compared to the rest of the stupid sh*t our country spends money on. Let's start with cutting free meals, haircuts, travel, healthcare, parking and housing for Congress first.
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I'll second that. Can we start with Blackwater or whatever they now call themselves? Xe
EXACTLY....those guys should have been arrested and the families of the Iraqis they destroyed be allowed to line them up against the wall and shoot them between the eyes.
Private entities were making roads... of course, government intervened..
The same police who commit the brutal acts you whine about every day
Yep, everybody would let the town burn down... We need government or people would be TOTALLY indifferent to fire.
Being a Congressman should NOT be a career.
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LOL
Same argument as roads..
Hey! you forgot the internet one!!
People are so silly... Let's all be pretentious and act like we wouldn't have roads, police, fire dept., parks and air traffic controllers if there was no government.
This....THIS...my friends..is rich. I mean, so rich. So...oh, just forget it.
I'm looking for a high enough roof around here to jump off of and just end it all.
I see your point with this. Parents do need to be forced sometimes to get involved. Welfare causes laziness. Still having hungry kids at school wont help that. Mandatory requirements for the parent to receive that check will. If they have to show how they have been involved if that child acts up or has failing grades and it is linked to that check on the 1st they will get involved. Also I believe in drug testing for food stamps and welfare. Working people have to get them. Why shouldn't someone getting a check.
How about having the parents that are getting free lunch (welfare) work in the cafeteria preparing the food?
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