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Just when it seems humanity is the suck (1 Viewer)
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Politician Spock
Footballguy
Bomb makers have better lobbyists and make bigger super PAC donations than school cafeterias do.
NCCommish
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
'Burque has always been a big RAK town. It was such a charming city that way before anglo sprawl overran it. Middle-class folk were more proud of their causes than their cars.
Even after i came back to the sprawl after 15 yrs away there was still some of that spirit. I started the dealers in my poker room betting RAKs when they propped each other (the tribe had fired some BJ dealers for personal bets) and within a coupla months, the players were doing same. During Iraq, I mentioned to one of my dealers that the soldiers were starved for phone cards and, by the end of the yr, we had donated 15K worth of em to VFW. Just that kinda town - miss it every day...
Even after i came back to the sprawl after 15 yrs away there was still some of that spirit. I started the dealers in my poker room betting RAKs when they propped each other (the tribe had fired some BJ dealers for personal bets) and within a coupla months, the players were doing same. During Iraq, I mentioned to one of my dealers that the soldiers were starved for phone cards and, by the end of the yr, we had donated 15K worth of em to VFW. Just that kinda town - miss it every day...
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
NCCommish
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Everyone should get free lunch. And we shouldn't be raiding the Food Stamps program to the tune of 5 billion dollars to do it. Which we did to provide lunches in areas where virtually all students are poor. Yeah I am sure no will miss that money.
We are on the hook for roughly 6 trillion dollars for the Iraq war at this point. A war of choice against someone who really did nothing to us. But we don't have the money for universal free lunch, or head start, or single payer healthcare. Of course we actually do have the money we just have extremely warped priorities.
And apparently we have way more than one parent who doesn't seem to be taking advantage of whatever program Albuquerque does have. So maybe they need to work on that bit.
whoknew
Footballguy
Why do you think this? Wouldn't it be a waste of money to feed kids from wealthy families?
NCCommish
Footballguy
No it wouldn't. Universal free lunch removes the stigma for those that aren't wealthy meaning more poor kids participate. Further universal free lunch removes administrative costs which are between 10 and 20% of the cost of producing the meal. And the truly wealthy are generally sending their kids to private schools anyway not public.
Cjw_55106
Footballguy
Please. Poor families aren't skipping out because of stigma. I was a free lunch kid 30 years ago and I got my lunch tickets just like everyone else did. No one knows who sent in a check and who didn't. When I went to middle school, it changed to a lunch card. Again, no one knows who paid and who didn't. While I can't say for sure, I have to imagine privacy is more guarded today than it was then.
NCCommish
Footballguy
When free lunches have been made universal participation by low income students increased.
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
When I was in middle school you turned in an envelope with your payment for the week. The teacher had one of the kids collect them in our homeroom. When the girl got to mine she could tell the envelope was empty and said "oh you get free lunch".
Privacy not so much. It's different now though. I worked in a school lunch program and all the registers were touch screen and kids could cash out with a finger print tied to an electronic balance. No one would know the lunch cost.
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