[NEWS] Republican bill will reduce free school lunch

[Red Spy]

you yanks are living the loving lives.

No we're not the food is loving dogstuff

[Ad Bot]

[Insert Name Here²]

yeah, in most places it's on par with the gas station bargain isle

[Red Spy]

Paid school lunches in my hs were like 2-4 dollars
The average school year is like 176 days or something
4 x 176 = 704
You can still bring your own lunch unless you're too poor to buy basic stuff like bread or meat then I don't really know how you managed to get to school in the first place. And op is acting like the free stuff is sent down from God himself and ordained to your school. Anyone who went to school knows (unless you went to a charter school idk) the free stuff is worse than stuff in India after spicy curry day during a heatwave. The hotdogs at my school were loving green. Green. Don't even get me started about the sauces that stuff would make your liver fail.
It's like Canadian medicine. Or free apps. The paid stuff is better but the free stuff is, well, free.
Idrk maybe a good counteract to this would be to make lunches cheaper

[SeventhSandwich]

<probably gonna pass a bill increasing food insecurity for kids who have no control over their family's finances
<still wants to spend billions on a useless wall

so where's the part where America becomes great?

[Ragequit]

That doesn't loving matter. Millions of kids live in low-income families and their parents cannot afford to dish out 1-2$ every day for meals, just because some kids decide they want to throw away their food doesn't mean that people who absolutely need it shouldn't be able to get it.

honestly if someone cant afford 1 dollar a day theyre doing something wrong

[e-maxx]

my school's free lunch was the same as the paid???????????????

[Nonnel]

Why is the government involved with this in the first place

contrary to popular belief, public schools are actually publically funded.

[SeventhSandwich]

honestly if someone cant afford 1 dollar a day theyre doing something wrong

I don't think that's the point. The entire reason free lunch systems exist is to guarantee that kids will always eat in school, regardless of whether their parents suck at budgeting. I don't see why kids should have to take the burden from adults' stuffty finances.

[PhantOS]

3$ a day is loving expensive for a low-income family. regardless of how bad the food tastes to you or your friends, it still provides macronutrients and other stuff needed for survival. if you don't eat the school lunch you miss out on a bunch of proteins and fat which are necessary to keep your brain active for the next couple of ours. every loving nutritionist will give you the same answer too.

It's not about how good/bad the free food tastes to you, it's about the fact that it's free and it's food and not many families can afford paid lunch

[Red Spy]

so where's the part where America becomes great?

Is this like an inside meme you keep talking about what even

[Alternat¡ve]

That doesn't loving matter. Millions of kids live in low-income families and their parents cannot afford to dish out 1-2$ every day for meals, just because some kids decide they want to throw away their food doesn't mean that people who absolutely need it shouldn't be able to get it.

From what I've read, families in critical situations like the one you described will still get meals. From what I've seen in school, the system has been too liberal with who qualifies for free lunch. A lot of kids who have no financial problems still get free lunch and end up wasting it.

[Nonnel]

Is this like an inside meme you keep talking about what even

did you forget the president's campaign slogan or are you getting at something else

[PhantOS]

Is this like an inside meme you keep talking about what even

Despite promising to do wonders for americans and americans first, the administration loves the idea of making necessities harder for american families. This includes clean water, education, and now free lunches

From what I've read, families in critical situations like the one you described will still get meals. From what I've seen in school, the system has been too liberal with who qualifies for free lunch. A lot of kids who have no financial problems still get free lunch and end up wasting it.

i'm all for some program that will make sure kids stop wasting food. however, i'm not for reducing the free lunch scope to only children below the poverty line. There are still families who earn around 70-80k a year and 3$ lunches are considered a luxury, especially after the cost of living, electricity, clothes and other necessities

[Red Spy]

did you forget the president's campaign slogan or are you getting at something else

It's not the slogan handicap I'm wondering why he keeps saying it even though this has nothing to do with Annoying Orange for all we know this thing'll get shot down in the Republican controlled congress

[SeventhSandwich]

Is this like an inside meme you keep talking about what even

It's just like - the trend here just seems to be "make everything stufftier and cut government expenditures" rather than actually make anything better. I guess 'great' is inherently subjective. Maybe people enjoy living in an Ayn Rand dystopia where there exists no assistance nor safety nets to help you if your life suddenly gets forgeted up.

for all we know this thing'll get shot down in the Republican controlled congress

lol. why?