Free Lunch. No such thing?

daepp · 07-12-2011, 02:59 PM

22 parks around here in just one city. Free lunch to anyone 2 to 18. Think it's to keep the union workers busy over the summer? Lots of official school workers in attendance. Many mini-vans showing up with 5-7 kids each. None look malnourished. My tax dollars at work...

A930Rocket · 07-12-2011, 03:01 PM

So was the lunch any good? Might as well get some if you're paying for it!

daepp · 07-12-2011, 03:02 PM

Alas I am a bit too old!

motion · 07-12-2011, 06:31 PM

Something like 96% of students in North OC get free lunches during the school year. 3% of South OC students get free lunches. Guess who pays.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

Chinese Treasury bill holders?

turbo6bar · 07-13-2011, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by motion

Guess who pays.

Hugh R? He should pay more taxes so we can feed more kids in South OC. He isn't thinking about the children.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

Oh, my bad - looks like a local or possibly state-funded program, not federal. So it'd be rich Porsche owners paying through their $600-a-year, you-get-two-days-to-renew registration fees, or possibly the property taxes on their McMansions.

I suppose I can think of worse things to be spending money on than lunches for poor kids, but geez! They're not even in school!

Por_sha911 · Por_sha911's Garage

"None look malnourished." The sad fact is that kids in poverty still eat a lot but its all junk.

Make sure you don't exclude all those undocumented aliens.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

Another event that should have an I.C.E. van parked in front of.

Hugh R · 07-13-2011, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by turbo6bar

Hugh R? He should pay more taxes so we can feed more kids in South OC. He isn't thinking about the children.

I guess I had that coming. But I only pay for free lunches for undocumented kids in LA county.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

You're right, those kids should go hungry....

daepp · 07-13-2011, 10:40 AM

The point is that none of them would go hungry.

Isn't making your kids breakfast or lunch part of the responsibilities of being a parent. Seems to me people did it for millennia!

daepp · 07-13-2011, 11:01 AM

Apparently they're everywhere. Here's one in Claremont, CA. Which, if I'm not mistaken, is in LA county and will continue to drain Hugh's wallet!

RWebb · RWebb's Garage

remember that CIA free vaccination plan in the ME that was really designed to collect DNA?

well, think about what you could do "in reverse"...

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

Don't have more kids than you can afford, if you can't afford any, don't have them. Unfortunately, that message of responsibility never gets learned any more... We had 2 kids because we could afford 2 kids, it's as simple as that...