You sure nailed it there, a few years ago it came out that several kids in the area didn't have a bed to sleep on and were having to sleep on the floor. Well, several beds were donated for the kids complete with mattresses, pillows, blankets, sheets and a comforter. I was part of a group that was helping to deliver the beds, at the first house we went to there was a man sitting there in a chair all stretched out playing on a phone. Even though we were bringing beds for the children of the house he couldn't be bothered to move until a deputy with him asked if he was going to get out of the way or did he need to run a warrants check. That's how sorry a lot of people are, the local Walmart has to black out the bar codes on the stuff that kids get through the shop with a cop program to keep the parents from returning it. But they always seem to have money for beer, cigarettes, and drugs, society is broken.

If you can’t feed, don’t breed.

Makes sense in a lot of areas of life.

Michael Jackson wasn’t wrong in that song.

If you can’t feed the baby, don’t have the baby.

Feed the kids with what your already taking for me make cuts to admin at the local and state levels to cover it.

You say “huge expenditure”, and I suppose it may look that way to you. But again, $.0028 per tax dollar is spent on the free and reduced school lunch program per dollar of taxes paid. Pay $10,000 in taxes in a year, $28 goes to feeding the kids. You may have a moral issue with that, and that is your right to feel that way, but it isn’t like that $28 a year has much significance if you are already paying $10,000. But it’s true in an absolute sense, you could be keeping your $28 and only paying $9,972 a year. I just think it is important to keep this in perspective - again, you can have a moral issue with even a penny of your money in your lifetime going to feed someone else’s kid, but as far as you tax bill goes, feeding those kids is not the reason your taxes are high if you feel they are too high.

Agreed - these parents are despicable, there simply is no nice way to say it and it is heartbreaking. But that kid didn’t choose those parents. I just can’t look at a hungry kid and not want to feed them, don’t care how useless the parents are. You are definitely free to feel differently, guess I just have a soft heart for children in general no matter if it enables the parents.

Great advice and rule to live by. But for the low life parents who don’t heed it, I can’t stand kids going hungry. It isn’t perfect, but at least I know that $28 of every $10,000 I pay in taxes helps make sure the unfortunate children of those dbags are getting at least one meal every day.
My best friend is a cop in Ohio, and last summer he arrested parents of 2 kids who were literally starving while the parents had a cell phone and drugs and alcohol in the house. He said there was nothing but half jar of peanut butter and a few slices of moldy bread in the cupboard, and the fridge didn’t even work. He said it was enough to trigger his “one feeling” that he still has after seeing so many people at their worst in his line of work, and he went and got them some Culvers on his dime while the other officers waited for CPS to arrive. Is it the parents’ fault? Absolutely! But that doesn’t make it easier to ignore a hungry child.

I was always told there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Lol. I'm not female and I don't have any pronouns either. I drink beer and smoke cigars too

feeding kids is some tax money I'm happy to pay. I guess it is much cheaper for taxpayers to pay for abortions than pregnancy, birth, welfare, education, and incarnation many of the kids will cost. BUT I'm still anti abortion and not going to adopt any of the unwanted kids either. ( had enough of that mess and dynamics with my adopted brother and sisters) So feel a bit like a hypocrite.

Question. If .gov didn't write the check for you, would you write a check to feed the kids? If so, why is it necessary to pay the salaries to people to write a check when you're able to write your own?

they also get breakfast here. i guess it keeps a few at school. wonder how kids survived before these programs? we took a sack lunch to school. they had these little cartons of milk everyday. infused with vitamin d to prevent rickets. some kids did not get milk. no money. i dont remember the cost. never knew anyone with rickets though. i think the benefits of free breakfast and lunch are grossly exaggerated.

once in a while you hear about some kid locked in a closet or something that is starved by the adults in his/her life. made into a sex slave sometimes. it is rare and these programs dont address those things.

without all these programs how would the poor social workers find a job?

war on drugs rather than crime keeps cops employed.

meanwhile your tv keeps telling the story all this stuff justifies the expense and is making a difference.

Milk was 2 cents when I went to school, cafeteria lunch was 35....we didn't have a lot ,but we had the milk money and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches....No free anything back then and no one disappeared from starving...

Considering I don't get involved with any school systems not likely. I also don't Wright many checks things are electronic these days. Now I have bought food many times for families and individuals holding signs and give to st Judes. Why them 1 when I see the need and 2 they let me know of the need.

Would everyone agree that you should be able to pay for the lunch if you choose to. I had a problem being made to take a free lunch. Again, not begrudging those that needed it. I actually qualified for reduced price because they lowered the bar so low and eventually just made everyone free with no other option. This bothered me personally. I think lunch and breakfast was 1.75 a day for each child and I was spending more than that each day for my lunch so I felt I could or should pay for theirs.

Now I'm confused. You're a lady, but not a female?

…. I’m confused also lol

Sometimes life is confusing. I get it........back to the school lunches.

lol …. Just trying to figure out if I’m talking to a man or a woman in here

Tranny