▲ 164 ▼ Republican congressman suggests some children receiving free school lunches should work at McDonald’s instead (www.nbcnews.com) submitted 2 years ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Forced to be there by law all day. They fucking earned those lunches! permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (2 children) Those lunches are usually not even that nice. It's not like the kids are being given caviar and smoked salmon. This is just being mean for the sake of being mean. It reminds me of "Maggie Thatcher the milk snatcher". In the late '70s Thatcher's government cancelled contracts to supply all kindergarteners across the country with the option of a little cartoon of milk. For many of those kids that was their breakfast and a highlight of their day. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net [S] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Yeah, it breaks my heart knowing for a lot of kids, these free school lunches or breakfasts are the only dependable meals they have. Feeding hungry kids is the kind of thing I want my taxes being used for. Suggesting kids need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get jobs if they want to eat is cartoonishly evil. They’re already working. School is their job. I’ve spent my whole life hearing that the US is the greatest country in the world… but I guess I’m just not rich enough to have enjoyed any of those supposed benefits because they sure aren’t trickling down to us common folk. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* No, the benefits are trickling down. After having been digested, but trickling down they are. permalink fedilink source parent [–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago I was on free lunch as a kid. It was the same lunch as everyone else. The only difference was free lunch kids couldn’t get chocolate milk and the rich kids could. This was in the 90s. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (2 children) Those lunches are usually not even that nice. It's not like the kids are being given caviar and smoked salmon. This is just being mean for the sake of being mean. It reminds me of "Maggie Thatcher the milk snatcher". In the late '70s Thatcher's government cancelled contracts to supply all kindergarteners across the country with the option of a little cartoon of milk. For many of those kids that was their breakfast and a highlight of their day. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net [S] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Yeah, it breaks my heart knowing for a lot of kids, these free school lunches or breakfasts are the only dependable meals they have. Feeding hungry kids is the kind of thing I want my taxes being used for. Suggesting kids need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get jobs if they want to eat is cartoonishly evil. They’re already working. School is their job. I’ve spent my whole life hearing that the US is the greatest country in the world… but I guess I’m just not rich enough to have enjoyed any of those supposed benefits because they sure aren’t trickling down to us common folk. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* No, the benefits are trickling down. After having been digested, but trickling down they are. permalink fedilink source parent [–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago I was on free lunch as a kid. It was the same lunch as everyone else. The only difference was free lunch kids couldn’t get chocolate milk and the rich kids could. This was in the 90s. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net [S] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Yeah, it breaks my heart knowing for a lot of kids, these free school lunches or breakfasts are the only dependable meals they have. Feeding hungry kids is the kind of thing I want my taxes being used for. Suggesting kids need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get jobs if they want to eat is cartoonishly evil. They’re already working. School is their job. I’ve spent my whole life hearing that the US is the greatest country in the world… but I guess I’m just not rich enough to have enjoyed any of those supposed benefits because they sure aren’t trickling down to us common folk. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* No, the benefits are trickling down. After having been digested, but trickling down they are. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* No, the benefits are trickling down. After having been digested, but trickling down they are. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago I was on free lunch as a kid. It was the same lunch as everyone else. The only difference was free lunch kids couldn’t get chocolate milk and the rich kids could. This was in the 90s. permalink fedilink source parent