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Re: "Free" meals during school closures March 27, 2020 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 1,802 |
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CrabCake
I'm sure it's the same all over the country, but all of this handwringing over continuing the free feeding programs for brats during the school closures is making me ILL. Schools are delivering the meals door to door as well as having meal pick-up available.
Re: "Free" meals during school closures March 27, 2020 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 3,576 |
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CrabCake
I'm sure it's the same all over the country, but all of this handwringing over continuing the free feeding programs for brats during the school closures is making me ILL. Schools are delivering the meals door to door as well as having meal pick-up available.
Schools in our area closed before nonessential businesses, so the free food was being doled out before layoffs began.
If the food situation for these families is as dire as reported, why don't we hear/read about kids dying of starvation every August? Are they fed year-round?
Re: "Free" meals during school closures March 28, 2020 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,976 |
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Tiquer
Schools in our area closed before nonessential businesses, so the free food was being doled out before layoffs began.
If the food situation for these families is as dire as reported, why don't we hear/read about kids dying of starvation every August? Are they fed year-round?
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Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 11, 2020 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 7,027 |
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whatever we think of the welfare bints, the welfare in the trailer park my ex and I ran, they were able to feed their little bastards with what they got from gubmint. didn't have to rely on the skewls to do that.
Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 11, 2020 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 3,576 |
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whatever we think of the welfare bints, the welfare in the trailer park my ex and I ran, they were able to feed their little bastards with what they got from gubmint. didn't have to rely on the skewls to do that.
This is what chaps my ass about it. These loser breeders already get food stamps, oh excuse me SNAP, and sometimes WIC in addition to all the other handouts they get. It just encourages them to continue in their lifestyle...where exactly is the motivation to improve and become self-sufficient? It also sets a horrible example for the kids...all they learn is "schools/government hands stuff out for free" as opposed to when I was a kid in the Dark Ages (60s and 70s) when being on food stamps was a source of shame and something people usually wanted to get off of as soon as possible.
Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 11, 2020 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,976 |
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CrabCake
all they learn is "schools/government hands stuff out for free" as opposed to when I was a kid in the Dark Ages (60s and 70s) when being on food stamps was a source of shame and something people usually wanted to get off of as soon as possible.
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mr. neptune
I wonder, don't these people have any extra food in their houses at all? It's been about 3 weeks and earlier on, people were lining up in our area for free food boxes in relatively new cars with the line over a mile long. We often had Campbell's soups and beans and Rice a Roni and box potatoes and while it is high in sodium it's better than being hungry. If people can afford cars they can't afford a few cans of nonperishable food? Are the breeders cupboards that bare? Oh, wait, my bad, extra food requires planning, and if people can't do family planning, I guess they can't do ANY planning.
Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 14, 2020 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 2,364 |
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I wonder, don't these people have any extra food in their houses at all? It's been about 3 weeks and earlier on, people were lining up in our area for free food boxes in relatively new cars with the line over a mile long. We often had Campbell's soups and beans and Rice a Roni and box potatoes and while it is high in sodium it's better than being hungry. If people can afford cars they can't afford a few cans of nonperishable food? Are the breeders cupboards that bare? Oh, wait, my bad, extra food requires planning, and if people can't do family planning, I guess they can't do ANY planning.
When I was a teen we were very food insecure. The car wasn't a luxury, as there was no public transportation where we lived, and you absolutely could not bike or walk to work. If you did not work, you could meet none of your needs. The parents bought cars on the dirt-cheap, very often only paying $400 but that was only after the old car DIED. Several of their cars met spectacular ends, such as the engine blowing up. Sometimes, we got a car 'free' after performing a service for the car's former owner.
Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 14, 2020 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 7,027 |
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There's a huge difference between a car for transport, and a relatively new car like mr. neptune described. And that is often one of the reasons middle-class people are one month away from bankruptcy: they "have" to have a new cellphone, new car, new TV, and so on. If they had their priorities in order, they'd purchase used cars - as you described your parents doing, and which my parents also did, albeit because they were frugal rather than poor - and set aside money for emergencies. If you have a new car and are financially insecure, you are failing at adulting.
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mr. neptune
Crazyzits I did not mean to be uncaring or make you feel bad about your situation. What I meant is that today there was a line up for a food bank that went for over a mile. On the news, the reporter interviewed some of the people lined up and it was always "i've got 2 little ones" or "I got 6 kids" or "We've got 4 at home". They never showed one elderly or single person in the lineup. Why do couples who may be already "food insecure" having kids? But people have kids knowing someone will "bail them out" with food. It was almost as if some people semi-brag about being in such a situation.
I also wonder, when women have 2 or 3 kids do the doctors, especially the OB/GYNs ever recommend to women that they be sterilized with an operation (or their husband be neutered)? Are big families at all necessary?
Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 14, 2020 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 3,576 |
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So why isn't CPS getting called on these parents? Not just the ones that suddenly can't afford food because of the quarantine-- the ones who rely on the school system to feed their kids on a regular basis. The kids that only eat when they're at school. Why are those people allowed to keep those children? Why is that okay?
Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 15, 2020 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,842 |
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craftyzits
As for the large families, many women are hyper fertile, and they cannot get doctors to address that problem if they could afford to go to a doctor at all. This board is full of complaints about the difficulty of getting sterilized for women and how patriarchal doctors deny them the procedures they need to prevent pregnancy. This is a problem even for those who have had kids. They cannot find a doctor willing to do so because the gubment wants lots of cannon fodder for endless wars. Even long term birth control is out of reach for many women.
Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 15, 2020 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 2,364 |
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craftyzits
There are legitimate reasons for parents to not be able to feed their children.
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As for the large families, many women are hyper fertile, and they cannot get doctors to address that problem if they could afford to go to a doctor at all. This board is full of complaints about the difficulty of getting sterilized for women and how patriarchal doctors deny them the procedures they need to prevent pregnancy. This is a problem even for those who have had kids. They cannot find a doctor willing to do so because the gubment wants lots of cannon fodder for endless wars. Even long term birth control is out of reach for many women.
In this case, I feel that if the husband truly cared about his wife and her health with not having too many kids, then he would arrange to get a vasectomy. This situation happened to my sister who is married to the loud smelly doctor I mentioned here before, Jupy. After being rejected by doctors, she asked him about getting a vasectomy and he refused. She finally did get an operation after telling the doctor "even if Christ wanted me to have his child, I would refuse!" I still think less of him since he would not do it. Of course, he's a doctor, he's tough, he is playing golf, and he refuses to help out in New York and so what a selfish doctor. i guess a lot of husbands are like that. I'm not married, so help me to understand this situation.
Re: "Free" meals during school closures April 20, 2020 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,712 |
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There's a huge difference between a car for transport, and a relatively new car like mr. neptune described. And that is often one of the reasons middle-class people are one month away from bankruptcy: they "have" to have a new cellphone, new car, new TV, and so on. If they had their priorities in order, they'd purchase used cars - as you described your parents doing, and which my parents also did, albeit because they were frugal rather than poor - and set aside money for emergencies. If you have a new car and are financially insecure, you are failing at adulting.
Exactly. I didn't think I was the only one who noticed this about the long food lines seen on the national news lately. On one, the reporter was talking to a guy in the line driving a late model Cadillac sedan, for fuck's sake. We've all heard the statistic saying that something like 60% (I can't remember the exact number but it was high) of people can't absorb a $400 emergency. OF COURSE there are some who are in dire straits by no fault of their own, but it's almost certain they're in a small minority. And government programs like "free" school meals only enables irresponsibility. IMO.
And I did not grow up rich by any means, quite the opposite. My parents probably could have qualified for assistance (this was back in the 60s and 70s) but as far as I know they never did. They both grew up during the Depression and WW2, my mom in Germany. She knew real poverty and knew how to stretch a dollar. We never went hungry, but we lived in a tiny crackerbox with one bathroom, got a few new school clothes every other year only because we outgrew the old ones, and had nothing name brand. We even shared bathwater if you can believe that. My brother and I NEVER got the reduced or free school lunches (they were a thing even back then). So I guess my perspective, like everyone's, is framed by how my parents did it, which is in stark contrast to a LOT of today's breeders who are looking for a handout at every turn.