Free Lunch. No such thing?

[daepp]

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]

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

[daepp]

Alas I am a bit too old!

[motion]

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]

Chinese Treasury bill holders?

[turbo6bar]

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]

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]

"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]

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

[Hugh R]

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]

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

[daepp]

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]

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]

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]

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...