Free Food For All, So Some Aren't Stigmatized

[coastal-boy]

As far as the contention that someone made that results are better when kids get free breakfast and lunch, that sounds good. I'll bet every working person in the US would feel better about themselves and become more productive and have better long term results if each was given a new GM car every year too.

I'm sure they would...but this isn't about adults is it? It is about children. There are so many studies that have been done it is silly. They all say the same thing...give kids food while in school and they perform better.

If kids perform better...will the country benefit in the long-term from the this small expenditure? What expenditure you ask? It cost 19 cents a day to feed one child in a US school program in 2008. You adjust to today's rates.

 

[Disgustipated]

For those of you living in Bizarro world it all boils down to this: rewarding bad behavior will create more bad behavior.

Rewarding bad behavior will indeed create more bad behavior. But what about the other circumstances I listed below?

So if a couple (regardless of age) have a child and one or both lose their job, or runs away from the child and other parent, or dies, the child should suffer?

The Department Of Agriculture needs to be shut down. It's been taken over by insane Socialists bent on making the world safe for incompetent, irresponsible, single moms who choose to inflict upon society the consequences of their utterly promiscuous lifestyles:

Many single moms are not single moms by choice. That's a really ignorant statement.

Free meals for all Detroit schoolchildren in fall

Most of you are missing a key word from this headline.

 

[Sean]

Exactly what we've been doing for over 40 years now, all it's done is increase the illegitimacy rate many fold.

It's kinda like 99 weeks of unemployment, paying people not to work, people stay home.

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT SINGLE MOTHERS SHOULD BE LOCKED UP IN CAMPS, ER, FACILITIES?

 

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[mercury14]

For those of you living in Bizarro world it all boils down to this: rewarding bad behavior will create more bad behavior.

Yes because a 2nd grader getting a cheese sandwich at lunchtime is a reward that creates bad behavior.

 

[coastal-boy]

COASTAL BOY assumes that the study groups had identical lives except for the pre-school experience. In a valid experiment every variable is controlled and static except for one. Its how you determine if something creates an effect....ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL!

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As a scientist, Coastal-boy knows very well how it works...he understands that randomization negates the issues you are discussing. You however, do not. BUt, do try again if you wish

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

So punish the kids because of their mother's decision?

No. Vetteman wants to punish the kids for HIS decision. Remember, it was his decision not to educate the mother or father.

 

[Sean]

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT SINGLE MOTHERS SHOULD BE LOCKED UP IN CAMPS, ER, FACILITIES?

I think his refusal to answer says it all. I'll check back tomorrow to see if the bigot has the courage (ahahahahahahaha!) to answer.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Actions have to have consequences. If we have to shoulder her responsibilities, the government should make her children wards of the State and she should be made to work off the debt of having us support her irresponsibility for 18 fucking years. Fuck this phony shit.

You know it's good to have you on record advocating slavery. I knew it was there and honestly if this is the stance you want I'll vote for your guy but only if they are gonna be honest about going all the way.

For the most part they faced her dad who was holding a fucking shotgun.

Yeah yeah according to legend. In real life this only rarely happened for a number of reasons starting with paternity tests didn't exist. If this was a regular thing women would simply get laid and CLAIM it was whomever was the richest man it town's baby. There also wouldn't be so many illegitimit children. And I suspect that back in the day when babies were born without doctors and without records that if you were too poor they simply vanished someplace.

Strong central governments that provide all the needs of the people have such a stunning record of success..it is no wonder that so many wish to install such a system in Capitalist America.

I mean if you can get a kid to goosestep at age three, imagine what you can do with him later?

Amicus

Nobody is talking about the government providing all the needs of the people. Nor is America a Capitalist country by your insane standards. No capitalist country by your standards has had any sucess, atleast Cuba is still there.

Single moms without a job and no means of supporting a child shouldn't be engaging in a lifestyle behavior that produces illegitimate children. Maybe we ought to require them to wear a Norplant, or something comparable, until they marry. Society has to impose consequences for the burden these youngsters place on the taxpayer. They shouldn't have Carte Blanche to become broodmare mothers and absent fathers while throwing the resulting burden on the shoulders of everyone else.

Yes. Because this happens on a regular basis. There are consequences. It's called being poor.

This BS has been going on for 40 years. Liberalism has created an entire class of people dependent upon government for their income. They've destroyed the family unit and replaced it with a legacy of absentee fathers and children without role models.

Actually that was conservatism that destroyed the family unit. Through brilliant plans like yours I might add.

For those of you living in Bizarro world it all boils down to this: rewarding bad behavior will create more bad behavior.

Yeah, but you're not rewarding bad behavior.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Like I have said, these man who have fled their parental responsibility need to be hunted down and punished either economically or criminally, there simply has to be consequences.

1. How do you propose we do that? We are broke, remember? It's easy to sit there and say "something should be done", but what is it you think should be done?

2. You want to punish the father criminally? How can he pay if he's in jail?

3. How do you get blood from a stone? If the father won't work, where does the money come from?

 

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[mercury14]

What about about a family of six that get by on wages not much higher than minimum wage that fall below the poverty line? Let's say they're married rural Christian conservatives in Alabama. They live in an tiny home and are dealing with debt issues. Luckily they have Medicaid and food stamps.

Not worthy for school lunches?

Even better, let's go with the Republican idea of abolishing minimum wage. Now this family is trying to survive on $6.50 an hour instead of $7.25.

Still want to abolish school lunches?

 

[fair_warning]

So if a couple (regardless of age) have a child and one or both lose their job, or runs away from the child and other parent, or dies, the child should suffer?

According to some - yes.
That kid will grown up knowing his/her place in society....oh, and when this individual ultimately replicates all they have learnt growing up, disadvantaged and marginalised, the Vettemans of this world will have the cure.

 

[kbate]

Like I have said, these man who have fled their parental responsibility need to be hunted down and punished either economically or criminally, there simply has to be consequences.

You only said that long after you suggested camps and punishment for irresponsible women and were in backpedal mode because as usual, your dumb ass is talking for your brainless head. You didn't state that men were engaging in irresponsible and immoral behaviour, you limited those accusations to women.

And of course, you are willing to pay higher taxes to build the debtor's prisons, work camps and child labour/training centres that your pogrom is going to require? Another million government employees to operate your camps, the hospitals for the pregnant teenagers or do they just have their babies wherever they happen to be standing on the assembly line? I trust that since you are planning to require single women without jobs to wear chastity belts (to enforce your good christian morals one can only suppose, you plan to pay for that with tax money.

 

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[coastal-boy]

Last year, the National School Lunch Program cost $9.8 billion (let's round to 10). The cost of incarceration was $60 billion in 2006 (let's add 10 to get it close to today's cost). So that is 1:7. If feeding kids reduces the rate of incarceration by 20% (as seen in numerous studies)...that means you saved $14 billion for a $10 billion investment (not adjusted for inflation) PLUS you get to make money on their increased wage earning ability.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Put his ass in jail, let him dive bomb for litter along the highway, let it show up on his record that he owes a monetary debt to society when his escrow tries to clear years in the future, I don't know, get creative.

Face it, the son of a bitch engaged in behavior that placed a financial burden on society. There has to be a reckoning in order to discourage that behavior in the future.

When you put him in jail (at a cost to the taxpayer) how much do you think he makes to pick up trash along the highway?

"The bitch who engaged in that behavior", it only takes one? And she's a bitch?

You're the only person on here who thinks being a single parent is easy.

 

[mercury14]

You only said that long after you suggested camps and punishment for irresponsible women and were in backpedal mode because as usual, your dumb ass is talking for your brainless head. You didn't state that men were engaging in irresponsible and immoral behaviour, you limited those accusations to women.

And of course, you are willing to pay higher taxes to build the debtor's prisons, work camps and child labour/training centres that your pogrom is going to require? Another million government employees to operate your camps, the hospitals for the pregnant teenagers or do they just have their babies wherever they happen to be standing on the assembly line? I trust that since you are planning to require single women without jobs to wear chastity belts (to enforce your good christian morals one can only suppose, you plan to pay for that with tax money.

Small government conservatism at its finest.

 

[girlsmiley]

Put his ass in jail, let him dive bomb for litter along the highway, let it show up on his record that he owes a monetary debt to society when his escrow tries to clear years in the future, I don't know, get creative.

Face it, the son of a bitch engaged in behavior that placed a financial burden on society. There has to be a reckoning in order to discourage that behavior in the future.

You're a fucking idiot.





Kill, kill, KILL all single mums

Kill them until they iz DEAD

 

[Saint Peter]

Kbate for president.

The rest of you shut the fuck up already.

 

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[richard_daily]

The Department Of Agriculture needs to be shut down. It's been taken over by insane Socialists bent on making the world safe for incompetent, irresponsible, single moms who choose to inflict upon society the consequences of their utterly promiscuous lifestyles:

http://www.freep.com/article/20110816/NEWS01/110816004/Free-meals-all-Detroit-schoolchildren-fall

Yes yes, everything needs to be shut down.

How about the communist, socialist VA hospital?

 

[girlsmiley]

Blather on dunce.

Stone the bitches.

Until they iz DEAD.

 

[Shagly]

The Department Of Agriculture needs to be shut down. It's been taken over by insane Socialists bent on making the world safe for incompetent, irresponsible, single moms who choose to inflict upon society the consequences of their utterly promiscuous lifestyles:


Free meals for all Detroit schoolchildren in fall


All Detroit Public Schools students will receive free breakfast, lunch and snacks in an effort to remove the stigma of being from a low-income family.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture program chose Michigan as one of three states to participate in the pilot program. Charter schools and districts in Michigan can participate if at least 40% of students are eligible for public assistance.

“One of the primary goals of this program is to eliminate the stigma that students feel when they get a free lunch, as opposed to paying cash,” said DPS Chief Operating Officer Mark Schrupp. “Some students would skip important meals to avoid being identified as low-income. Now, all students will walk through a lunch line and not have to pay. Low-income students will not be easily identifiable and will be less likely to skip meals.”

Although not required to participate, parents are still being asked to fill out a survey that includes income analysis to ensure that children, schools and the district will continue to receive millions of dollars in benefits and resources from the state and federal governments, as well as private grants. Program funding dependent on the surveys includes tutoring, after-school programs, field trips, technology and equipment, DDOT bus cards, free college testing, enrichment activities and others.

The Community Eligibility Option is among the early reforms enacted under President Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which authorized the USDA to select up to three states to test the option in School Year 2011-12. A main factor in choosing the finalists was the prevalence of high-poverty areas. The option will be offered to more states in successive years, and will be available to all states beginning School Year 2014-15.

http://www.freep.com/article/20110816/NEWS01/110816004/Free-meals-all-Detroit-schoolchildren-fall

Oh!

The WIC program that gives away free food to women that want children without a husband so they can get free welfare with the more children they reproduce and even more free food.

Prostitutes in New York City have been into this for years.