Thoughts? Elem. School Taking Away Regular Lunches From Students Who Owe Money, Replacing With Tuna

[Demo_Chris]

113. Three thoughts

1. For many children this is the ONLY nutritious meal they will have that day. They have no money at home for food, or they take turns with dinner. Approximately one in five children go to bed hungry every night.

It is probably a safe bet that these are also the kids who's parents cannot afford the school lunch.


2. If the scholl doesn't have the money they don't have the money. They very likely cannot afford to provide free meals to the kids. Not unless the teachers and admin want to make up the difference out of their own pay (and it is, of course, ridiculous to expect any such thing).


3) It is a sad but understandable thing when a parent cannot feed their children. I have nothing but compassion for these people. And at the same time, I have nothing but contempt for a SOCIETY which allows this. In truth, it's not a society at all. It's a mob of sociopaths. The idea that we cannot afford to feed our children is absurd. Of course we can, we just choose not to.

I am often criticised for being hard on President Obama. THIS is one reason why. We have hungry children in this country and he is giving tax cuts to the wealthy, we have hungry children and he is spending 600 BILLION on defense, we have hungry children and he is locking in micro tax rates for the Romneys and the Waltons, we have hungry children--

HUNGRY FUCKING CHILDREN

--and he is talking about anything else. It's inexcusable. Sorry, but it just is. If hungry American children are not a priority than nothing is. You can do everything else perfectly and if you blow it on that one you fail.