Kate O'Beirne: Parents of kids in school breakfast programs are criminals

[proud2BlibKansan]

Parents of children who participate in school breakfast programs are "criminally negligent," says the Washington editor of the conservative National Review.

Kate O'Beirne, who also appears as a pundit on MSNBC, made the comment at a Republican strategy session she moderated at the Hudson Institute Friday.

"My question is what poor excuse for a parent can’t rustle up a bowl of cereal and a banana?" O'Beirne asked. "I just don’t get why millions of school children qualify for school breakfasts unless we have a major wide spread problem with child neglect."

She continued, "If that’s how many parents are incapable of pulling together a bowl of cereal and a banana, then we have problems that are way bigger than -- that problem can’t be solved with a school breakfast, because we have parents who are just criminally ... criminally negligent with respect to raising children."

more . . . http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/obeirne-parents-school-breakfast-criminals/

[northoftheborder]

1. That woman just needs to go away.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Maybe this will help

[northoftheborder]

2. oops

[drm604]

3. Criminally negligent?

She's criminally stupid.

[spotbird]

4. She has never been unable to buy

a bowl of cereal and (especially) a banana. Her absence of insight is typical of the policymaking class,

[csziggy]

5. Has she priced cereal, fruit and milk recently?

The prices have gone up three or four times what they were ten years ago (maybe more) while wages have stayed flat or gone down. And how about those parents who were laid off because their jobs were outsourced and who are trying to feed their kids on unemployment compensation - if theirs has not been cut off? Or who are working two or three low wage jobs to make ends meet and are not able to devote the time to help their child fix breakfast in the morning?

The problem IS "bigger than that" but it is not criminally negligent parents - it is a system that rewards rich crooks and penalizes real workers.

[Danger Mouse]

6. Not all conservatives are assholes, but damn it does seem like it sometimes, eh?

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Sure does

[w8liftinglady]

57. the ones that aren't keep their mouths shut and actually DO something

I live with conservative Christians who do good for the community...all in silence,wanting no attention.
i live with neon-Light,Look-at-me Xtians who make sure everyone sees them at church..while critisizing the poor and down-trodden.
I think Ms. O'Beirne falls in catagory "B"

[Ramulux]

8. Wow

How do you explain to someone what "money" is?

[Dappleganger]

9. Many people just cannot fathom poverty.

My suggestion is instead of reading about it, go take a walk in their shoes for a week (more than one day) and see why there isn't cereal and milk available in the morning.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Absolutely

[LWolf]

30. +1

[provis99]

10. well, she's a moderate by Republican standards these days.

Most Republicans would rather execute people in school breakfast programs; she just wants to imprison them.

[Waiting For Everyman]

11. She should never be allowed back to comment on tv again.

Her bias against the poor is astonishing and she obviously has no common sense.

[grilled onions]

12. They Don't Get It

There are only TWO of us yet the idea of eating a lot of cold cereal for breakfast is not in our budget. Cooked cereal is the way to go. As much as we like bananas there are many weeks where the price is too high. Now you have a family of four growing kids and the problem is a lot worse. Add to that poor wages,rising costs of rent etc and you have them counting on those school meals,the food pantry etc. The comments by Rush were beyond the pale. Dumpster dive? What does he have in place of a heart? Also he comments on "just look in the refrigerator" proves he has never even been to a home where the only things they might have would be tea or kool aid with maybe a bit of margarine or ketchup.

[PassingFair]

37. It's not the money.

I can buy a bag of cereal for a dollar at BigLots.

It's the ability of some parents to even WAKE UP
and feed the kids, or make it to a grocery store
that DOESN'T charge $5.00 for a box of cereal because
the only place you have access to is an inner-city
corner store.

I HATE people that want to deprive children.

[eleny]

14. I'm surprised that hag is still around

[Shallah Kali]

16. no, it's the people who oppose a living wage that are criminally negligent human beings

these sociopaths-by-choice are the criminally negligent ones.

[Ilsa]

48. You nailed it. And they are in denial about the numbers of people

needing assistance from food pantries, through WIC, etc

O'Beirne should be ashamed of herself.

[YvonneCa]

17. Teachers in Title I schools need to invite her...

...and other 'detached from reality' media to visit their schools and communities. It's the only way these people will get a clue.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. I would volunteer but

she's probably too scared to come into the neighborhood.

[w8liftinglady]

21. My partner nearly blew a gasket when I showed him the ed in my paper

98 percent of the kids in his school get free breakfast/lunch.He has provided stuff for his kids so many times.This selfish bitch has probably never soiled her feet in a title-one school

[knitter4democracy]

31. She can come to mine.

I can think of a couple of homeless students she can bunk with and a couple of other families she can visit for a week. She should stay at least a week.

[YvonneCa]

58. Maybe volunteer hours should be required for...

...journalists... prior to granting them the giant megaphone they are privileged to use. ;)

[guitar man]

18. We are not supposed to advocate violence on this board

So I won't :grr:

[blondeatlast]

42. But we can dream, can't we? My idea of justice for her means that her favorite Escada suit go

to the dry cleaners for about a month--protein stains are the WORST.

[guitar man]

45. my idea of justice for her

is that she step off a curb and, whoops, didn't see that bus coming! :evilgrin:

[blondeatlast]

47. I could discuss my dreams all day--I had this one about Pat Buchanan

and an elephant with digestive difficulties...

[guitar man]

60. LOL!!

I was kinda hoping Snoop Dogg would catch up with him in a dark alley :evilgrin:

[w8liftinglady]

20. NOW I know where this person in my paper got their ideas

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9701001&mesg_id=9701001

[LeftishBrit]

22. That just makes me feel ill.

[Starry Messenger]

23. "Let them eat cake!"

Obviously the economy has not touched Ms. O'Beirne's life in much of a way.

[City Lights]

24. Sure Kateo. Whatever you say....

...meanwhile, war criminals like George and Dick roam freely.

[GoCubsGo]

25. The real criminals....

...are the ones who let Buck-toothed Katie spew that hateful shit.

[TBF]

26. LOL - we are very rushed in the morning getting our kids to school,

and my daughter solved part of our problem by suggesting "mom, can I just eat at school"? They make toast, eggs, cereal, etc... she loves it. Of course most of the kids eating are getting reduced or free food, but not my daugher. We have a healthy income so I just fill up her on-line account and let her buy whatever she needs for breakfast/lunch. Usually that amounts to about $4.00/day for food. Occasionally I go in and have lunch with her, so I can see for myself the food choices and her lunches aren't half bad.

So, yes, I guess I'm a hardened criminal ... :rofl:

[Vinca]

27. Kate just doesn't get the "poor" thing.

Some kids go to the fridge and find just mayonnaise or ketchup to eat. Not a very good breakfast.

[proud2BlibKansan]

56. True story

I have had more than one student in 31 years bring lunch for me. More than a few have shared a ketchup sandwich.

[Vinca]

59. When I was a kid I remember having mayonnaise sandwiches.

I never thought we were poor, but I've got this memory in my head some half century later of the mayonnaise sandwich.

[Darth_Kitten]

28. I wonder how many pampered Republican women......

couldn't support their own children without relying on some man? What if their gravy train came to a sudden stop?

Get a conscience, Kate O'Beirne, you empty-headed twit.

[seabeyond]

43. what a offensively fucked up post. any woman staing at home taking care of kids are gravy trainin'

it. couldnt possibly take care of kids single? totally fucked up in order to attack this woman. vast majority of women raising kids with no help is going to be in tough shape. why the need to put down women suggesting marriage is just a ride on gravy train, dismissing what these women do.

want to attack what the woman in the op says... fine. but fuck that shit cause i stay at home and raise my kids and have created a healthy environment for all of us, much to your disdain. would it be tougher if i did it alone with NO support? fuck ya. pretty much that way when i see a man raising his kids without any help from the woman too.

[surrealAmerican]

29. If she were able to really think this through ...

... she would realize that we, as a nation, are the ones who are "criminally negligent" in this.


... and yes, it WILL take a lot more than just feeding kids breakfast to solve the problem, but they need the breakfast too.

[Blue_Tires]

32. what do you expect? it's not like she's ever had to work for a living...

and her worldview reflects that...

[Le Taz Hot]

33. Spoken like a person who has

never known need and been in a desperate situation. How nice for her. I'm guessing she's a good, church-going Xtian as well.

[undeterred]

34. I once worked with a guy who couldn't get how someone could overdraw their checking account.

And he was in charge of reaching out to marginalized peoples on a project.

[TexasObserver]

35. She could be the poster girl for that "Mean People Suck" concept.

For whatever reason, including bad parenting, kids don't get the food they need at home. We can either take Kate's approach, and seethe about the parents, or we can address the problem of hungry kids.

The mean spirited always want to focus on their anger at the parents, instead of helping the kids.

[spanone]

36. oh kate, you ignorant slut....

[SalmonChantedEvening]

38. Compassionate. Right.

Bet she thinks these kids should be selling matches to pay for their cereal and bananas.

[PA Democrat]

39. I guess it goes without saying that she is "pro-life."

Force women to have children they can't afford and then jail them when they can't feed them. What a genius!:mad:

[Cal Carpenter]

40. Holy shit

What a fucking asshole.

:wtf:

[Binka]

53. Love You

Pithy. Perfect. :loveya:

[hobbit709]

41. With a name like hers she should remember how her ancestors were treated

Especially in the late 1840's in Ireland.

[justiceischeap]

44. When I was in school, I had to partake of the school breakfast AND lunch programs

It wasn't that my parents couldn't scrape up the money for cereal and a banana, it was that they were too poor to do it consistently (and I was an only child). Of course, this was in the 70s & 80s. I didn't know until I was a pre-teen that food boxes and cans of food actually came in anything other than black and white. I totally grew up on the Acme brand.

I suspect as unemployment benefits give way, more and more children will need to take advantage of those school programs.

[Swede]

46. Poverty is ugly and so is her soul.

nt

[NuttyFluffers]

49. we give too much time to those who are insane and seek to harm us.

is it really a surprise that the malignant in spirit could say such evil things? if not, why do we need to share them? it is a redundancy and harmful to one's spirit.

liberate yourself and ignore this woman from now on. :hug:

[PVnRT]

50. Who is this fuckwit and how is she an "expert"?

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[krabigirl]

51. Bitch. Nt

[FourScore]

52. What an ignorant twit! n/t

[geardaddy]

54. Fist meet O'Beirne's face.

Sorry, she's a vile excuse for humanity.

[ck4829]

61. Disgusting.