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Paul Ryan Claims Free School Lunches Make Children Feel Unloved
Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:51 PM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:“He didn’t want a free lunch,” Ryan insisted. “He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag, just like the other kids.” “He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand.”
Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:09 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Or is it that the audience at CPAC really IS that stupid?
Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:42 PM
WISHIMAY
Friday, March 7, 2014 6:27 AM
Friday, March 7, 2014 9:08 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Friday, March 7, 2014 9:10 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Wishimay: When my parents got divorced and I started Jr. High, my mother found out she could take free lunch. All I had to do was say the word "program" at the lunch counter and it was free. I couldn't do it. I stopped eating, sneaking whatever pre-packaged crap I could find from home. And no one noticed. For six years. It was a HUGE thing for me. That one little word was so much more. It represented everything that had gone wrong in my life and it made me feel dirty and poor and a burden. So, yeah, I have to agree. If ye can't feed 'em proper, don't breed 'em. I'd take up mugging before I'd let my kid take government cheese....
Friday, March 7, 2014 11:29 AM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by Wishimay: So, yeah, I have to agree. If ye can't feed 'em proper, don't breed 'em.
Friday, March 7, 2014 11:54 AM
REAVERFAN
Quote:Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA: Feh, I say we go the other way, roll that into the education budget and feed em all. Seriously, it would not in any material way increase the education budget to simply offer 1-2 meals as part of the damn curriculum, if they wanna brown bag it anyway, that's okay too, but the offer, you know ? Surely a better use of tax dollars than bombs and plots and spies, innit ? And while not to decry your bent for self-reliance, lemme give you my perspective - see, when I was living in the deep dark ghetto, there was this lady a couple doors down, who despite pressing and actual need, refused to apply for assistance, and refused to take charity, and she had two kids - two kids who were plainly and obviously malnourished, due to her goddamn pride. Even though I had so little I couldn't really spare it, I would sneak those kids PB&J sandwiches on the sly, it was all I had, and it meant I went hungry for a bit, but damn me I couldn't just sit back and watch that even though I was generally nihilistic and hateful of humanity as a whole at the time. When my tax dollars feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, or heal the sick and injured, I have no grudge about it whatever - whether they "need" it or not. Even though I am antagonistic to Christianity, to make a point here, ya didn't see Jesus checkin incomes when he handed out the loaves and the fishes, neh ? -Frem
Friday, March 7, 2014 1:32 PM
Friday, March 7, 2014 3:30 PM
Quote:When my tax dollars feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, or heal the sick and injured, I have no grudge about it whatever - whether they "need" it or not.
Quote:I call that a good use of my tax dollars, and would gladly pay for it.
Friday, March 7, 2014 7:09 PM
Quote: When my tax dollars feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, or heal the sick and injured, I have no grudge about it whatever - whether they "need" it or not .
Friday, March 7, 2014 9:33 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Saturday, March 8, 2014 4:20 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote: When my tax dollars feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, or heal the sick and injured, I have no grudge about it whatever - whether they "need" it or not . To quote The Operative... " I do "
Saturday, March 8, 2014 8:20 AM
Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:23 AM
Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by reaverfan: Study after study proves that fraud on that end is negligible. People who need assistance actually do, and denying kids food is reprehensible. We need to raise wages, and stop paying for benefits to people who work full time because their employers would rather burden taxpayers than pay a livable wage.
Saturday, March 8, 2014 3:24 PM
Quote: Especially when there's no real NEED. That's the small part that gets over looked. Fraud and excessive benefits to those who really don't deserve our HELP… The world you live in does not exist. There is MASSIVE fraud. Those who want to raise a family need to stop working for min wage, and get a real job.
Saturday, March 8, 2014 3:35 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Quote: Especially when there's no real NEED. That's the small part that gets over looked. Fraud and excessive benefits to those who really don't deserve our HELP… The world you live in does not exist. There is MASSIVE fraud. Those who want to raise a family need to stop working for min wage, and get a real job. So I ask, yet again, why DO you people even pay attention to this idiot?
Saturday, March 8, 2014 3:47 PM
Quote:“If you make me lunch,” he said, “will you put it in a brown paper bag?” I didn’t really understand the question. “Do you want it in a brown paper bag?” I asked. “Or how would you prefer it?” “Miss Laura,” he said, “I don’t want your money. I want my lunch in a brown paper bag.” “Okay, sure. But why do you want it in a bag?” “Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?” http://www.aninvisiblethread.com/about
Quote:Today at CPAC, I shared a story I heard from Eloise Anderson, the secretary for children and families for the state of Wisconsin. She mentioned it in her testimony for a House Budget Committee hearing last year. I have just learned that Secretary Anderson misspoke, and that the story she told was improperly sourced. I regret failing to verify the original source of the story, but I appreciate her taking the time to share her insights. https://www.facebook.com/paulryanwi
Quote:A recently-released budget proposal in the House of Representatives – often referred to as the Ryan budget – would be devastating to SNAP. The proposal would lead to up to $125 billion in cuts to the program and would lead to millions of families and children losing access to the program entirely. http://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/snap-wic/2013/03/ryan-budget-proposal-and-what-it-would-mean-families
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