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[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Here in California, we have a “Kids get a free lunch program.”
It’s not named that literally, but public schools give free lunches, another social program so that kids get at least one free meal and no one goes hungry. So what happened? Kids are fat as fuck, the food is cheap processed bullshit. So now we have kids who don’t speak English, who drop out, and are fat and sick.
Yay for letting the government run shit. [/quote]
This is exactly what was going on in the group home where I used to work with teenagers in the fostercare system. The kids were consuming a very unhealthy meal at each meal time because the agency was buying in bulk from Cisco (this is common). At the same time, they were given varying doses of meds, some of which were experimental in the “let’s see if this fixes the crazy kid…oh no… it just makes them close to unconscious for most of the day. Oh, let’s try THIS med… oh wait… the kid just gained 50lbs and is still crazy…well darn.” way. Next, they were denied excersize and not given access to interesting activities because there wasn’t enough staff to take them if one of the other kids was having a crisis.
Can you imagine how greatly that fucks kids up just from an altered brain chemistry perspective due to physical conditions? Some of the kids had lived in the group home for nearly 5 years.
The government isn’t interested in solving problems like hunger and nutrition; they’re only interested in looking like they’re solving them. That fact becomes really frightening when the government tried to take communistic control over people’s decisions on how to meet their own physical needs.
The only way to solve the problem is to figure out something that sounds equally PR friendly and shaves some dollars off the budget. That’s the only langauge the government understands.
[quote]florelius wrote:
If the lunch is free aka the parents doesnt pay, than I dont see the problem. And milk owns coke everyday.
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Yeah no problem cause it’s not like any of us have to pay with our tax dollars. The good fairly drops money from the sky on the school district and the kids get free lunch.
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
If the lunch is free aka the parents doesnt pay, than I dont see the problem. And milk owns coke everyday.
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Yeah no problem cause it’s not like any of us have to pay with our tax dollars. The good fairly drops money from the sky on the school district and the kids get free lunch. [/quote]
some doesnt wiew taxes as a evil, including me.
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
FWIW, I told an Eqyptian welder that to become a US Marine you have to kill one of your parents. He believed me and left even more scared.
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Ha, that’s awesome Jewbacca.
[quote]florelius wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
If the lunch is free aka the parents doesnt pay, than I dont see the problem. And milk owns coke everyday.
[/quote]
Yeah no problem cause it’s not like any of us have to pay with our tax dollars. The good fairly drops money from the sky on the school district and the kids get free lunch. [/quote]
some doesnt wiew taxes as a evil, including me. [/quote]
I see, I see…,Well tell me how old are you and how much in taxes do you pay?
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
If the lunch is free aka the parents doesnt pay, than I dont see the problem. And milk owns coke everyday.
[/quote]
Yeah no problem cause it’s not like any of us have to pay with our tax dollars. The good fairly drops money from the sky on the school district and the kids get free lunch. [/quote]
some doesnt wiew taxes as a evil, including me. [/quote]
I see, I see…,Well tell me how old are you and how much in taxes do you pay?[/quote]
Did you read the article ZEB, its avout one school in chicago, its not the federal state that are making up a new tax for school lunch.
btw: since you are dieng to know, I am 25 and I pay 50% in income tax. ( if you wonder why a poor student like me pay that %, it has something to do with mix up with papers and addresses, I should pay less ).
[quote]florelius wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
If the lunch is free aka the parents doesnt pay, than I dont see the problem. And milk owns coke everyday.
[/quote]
Yeah no problem cause it’s not like any of us have to pay with our tax dollars. The good fairly drops money from the sky on the school district and the kids get free lunch. [/quote]
some doesnt wiew taxes as a evil, including me. [/quote]
I see, I see…,Well tell me how old are you and how much in taxes do you pay?[/quote]
Did you read the article ZEB, its avout one school in chicago, its not the federal state that are making up a new tax for school lunch.
btw: since you are dieng to know, I am 25 and I pay 50% in income tax. ( if you wonder why a poor student like me pay that %, it has something to do with mix up with papers and addresses, I should pay less ).
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I see…
And when you want to spend it you pay 25% Vat, do you not?
What about social security including your employers contribution of course?
So how high is your tax rate really?
[quote]florelius wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]florelius wrote:
If the lunch is free aka the parents doesnt pay, than I dont see the problem. And milk owns coke everyday.
[/quote]
Yeah no problem cause it’s not like any of us have to pay with our tax dollars. The good fairly drops money from the sky on the school district and the kids get free lunch. [/quote]
some doesnt wiew taxes as a evil, including me. [/quote]
I see, I see…,Well tell me how old are you and how much in taxes do you pay?[/quote]
Did you read the article ZEB, its avout one school in chicago, its not the federal state that are making up a new tax for school lunch.
btw: since you are dieng to know, I am 25 and I pay 50% in income tax. ( if you wonder why a poor student like me pay that %, it has something to do with mix up with papers and addresses, I should pay less ).
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What you don’t understand is that such actions would be symptomatic of a more serious problem that could spread nation wide, state by state. I do not believe that it is the schools responsibility to supply a FREE lunch to a child. This is not a socialistic state…yet.
And if someone like you wants to pay higher taxes to support this I have a suggestion. Simply mail in more money to the government if that makes you happy (Yes I realize you’re from Norway, but surely they need your money too). As for me I’d like to keep more of my money so that I can expand my business, hire more people and in the process help the economy far more than if I gave the government more money which is inevitably squandered.
All the best to you,
Zeb
I handle finances for a large urban school district. Childhood obesity rates are ridiculous. Granted, I haven’t had a chance to visit cafeterias yet… but I will tell you I pay close to a million dollars just for kids with diabetes to have nurses per year. Ive really had some eye opening experiences here with public ed…