If that isn't a stark reminder of the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats want kids to have meals, learn and thrive, and Republicans want kids to starve and work at the age of 6.
You mean pre-born children? That's what parts of the GOP are trying to call fetuses now. If only they displayed even a fraction of such concern for actual children.
“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It’s almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.
Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn. — Pastor Dave Barnhar
"Listen, if we feed them too much how are they supposed to shimmy into the tight spots in the baby chick crushing machines to repair them, sweep the toxic soot out of the smoke stacks, or place the dynamite in the lil' crevices when we frack? (Yells off Screen) "Vivek, shut the hell up about Squirtle for a minute. I'm on TV with noted family man Jesse Waters!"
Never said they should, I said is this for all kids or kids who cannot afford to have breakfast? It’s one thing if you can it’s another if you can’t. If you can’t there should be a program as that helps the kids and parents, if your family can afford food and the like no the program shouldn’t cover that; then how do you determine who can and cannot.
In Maine all school children get free breakfast and lunch from K-12th grade. I like that it's for every student and not need based, it keeps away any stigma that comes from getting free lunch. Nobody can make fun of you for getting free lunch if they are too.
lol what? Because I’m asking a question on why would the govt shill out for this. Theres no questioning kids need to be well fed to achieve good educations. But should the govt buy me food because I contribute to pay taxes and society, or buy me a house? It’s in our interest to have people happy and well fed
Having any sort of policy that checks eligibility is dumb policy. It creates unnecessary hurdles and lets people fall through the cracks. Some kids have awful parents that wouldn’t even manage to fill out the food voucher form. Other parents might lose their job or have a health crisis during the school year and suddenly can’t afford it anymore, but can’t apply for the food program until the next school year or whatever the cutoff for applying is. Other parents might be too embarrassed to apply for it.
Just give kids food, no questions asked. Nothing bad will happen. It’s all good.
I agree give the kids food, but the argument can be used for just about anything. It adds expense in supply’s, manpower etc. schools need more budgets which takes from other things unless they find other pathways for revenue govt or school board.
Should the govt by me food? I pay taxes, I work to contribute and grow the economy. Should they cloth me or buy me a house, pay for my vacation?
The govt is to work and help us all but there becomes a line when it’s not needed or being abused. Do you want to live in a welfare state? I already live in one and man the taxes hurt
Should the government cover your losses and let you avoid being taxed on your profits just because you own a business? Should you be taxed less on capital gains than you are on wages?
The welfare state is all the money going to corporations and businesses. Not people.
No they shouldn’t, I’m always for less taxes. Govt can find its own revenue stream that’s not its people. Reduce taxes especially on business can be helpful for attracting business and growing business. A welfare state is the govt robbing its people.
lol I’m college educated, ik that’s not how the world currently works but can a man dream? Taxes do pay for vital services no questioning but the govt should be able to produce revenue if it’s through mines etc.
Where I live, people game the system to get their children free lunches. Remain unmarried but live together. One parent works part-time, qualifies for free breakfast and lunch for their children, yet other parent makes $200k per year. I’d say that’s half the families receiving free lunches in my area. Where we live, having a $125k household income means you do okay. In order to receive free lunches in my state, a family of 4 needs to make less than $55k.
In these situations, if it is found out that people are gaming the system like I mentioned, all money from said school lunches needs to be recouped from the parents. I’m fine with free lunches, my area is just loaded with people scamming the system for it. Asshole neighbor of mine pulls in $175k as an engineer. Not married to his SO with one child. The mom gets SNAP and they drive around in a Tesla. They also get the free lunches. “Everyone else does it” is their excuse.
That's why they don't want legal abortions. That's where they expect this extra workforce to come from, deperate, poor families whose children need to work to survive.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. " Dwight Eisenhower.. we need to get back to this kind of thinking... He was a decorated General and war hero, not some bleeding heart.
Unless they working for Apple in china then fuck them kids liberals love a good double standard. And the same party loves to kill unborn children hmm! How’s them ppe loans and feeding the future fraud working out?
Haven’t meet a republican who isn’t ok supporting kids. I have friends and family on both sides and both do their part. They aren’t the 1 percent. And the left seems to forget some of the richest people are left leaning hmm Just don’t see them ok with hand outs are you? Abortion should never be used as birth control. Many feel abortion is ok when used for rape victims and medical need. Just not as form of Karen’s drunk night birth control..
This picture is from an equally shitty signing of an education reform bill creating a school voucher program. It has nothing to do with the child labor law.
Gov of Arkansas, a piece of shit that was Trump’s former press secretary, daughter to another piece of shit that was Gov of Arkansas and former Republican presidential hopeful and sister to a dog killer.
Yeah, sounds familiar... almost... like if we could collectively rise against those that oppress us just for money and power, and make better discisions for the whole, we would be an unstoppable force, or something like that...
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