Free lunches at school

[SteveLaura 0]

I also love how the people who pay the most tax always get the least out of government services.

Well, that's true so long as you live in a vacuum. Maybe these people empty their own trash, or produce their own food, and maintain their own roads, and wait on themselves when they go to resaturants they make their own food in...

[Heracles 417]

It wouldn't have happened without free medical care, free school lunches, free day care and free college. Trust me.

It is not free. Somebody paid for it. That is something people like Michael Moore fail to mention in their films. It usually comes in the form of much higher taxes paid by someone else.

30 / 40 years ago people did not look at how they can exploit the system. 2007 is a different story. I am more concerned about catching people taking advantage of the system than punishing someone on welfare. Only the people who deserve it should be able to receive it.

[SteveLaura 0]

I am more concerned about catching people taking advantage of the system than punishing someone on welfare. Only the people who deserve it should be able to receive it.

There are policies in place to ensure that abuse is kept to a minimum. Random sampling, for example, as stated in the PDF I posted above.

Auditing everyone's taxes would also catch people taking advantage of that system. Maybe we should press for that too.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

If a student has weak language skills, if our schools can help him or her with that, how is that taking advantage? Schools and teachers do not exist merely to draw a salary, a fat state pension and to teach children who would learn just fine without them. They exist to teach those who need them the most.

[SteveLaura 0]

If a student has weak language skills, if our schools can help him or her with that, how is that taking advantage? Schools and teachers do not exist merely to draw a salary, a fat state pension and to teach children who would learn just fine without them. They exist to teach those who need them the most.

You in the right thread, Gupt?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Doh.

[Heracles 417]

If a student has weak language skills, if our schools can help him or her with that, how is that taking advantage? Schools and teachers do not exist merely to draw a salary, a fat state pension and to teach children who would learn just fine without them. They exist to teach those who need them the most.

To teach; not to be a parent or babysitter or unicef. A teacher's duties now go above an beyond simply teaching kids or those who need them most. Some kids are a wreck. From ADD to neglect etc. If your boss doubled your work load, with the same pay, would you simply take it and say oh well they are my new responsibilities.

Edited August 27, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[Sister Fracas 5]

Doh.

That's what happens when you have multiple windows open with different VJ threads...heehee

[SteveLaura 0]

See what happens when you skip lunch, children?

Let this be a lesson to us all.

Now, recess.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

If your boss doubled your work load, with the same pay, would you simply take it and say oh well they are my new responsibilities.

Yes.

And if I felt I could not perform them, I would seek alternative employment.

[almaty 19]

i rather my tax $$4 go to feed an American student than to Iraq to support a corrupt government

[britbird 4]

i rather my tax $$4 go to feed an American student than to Iraq to support a corrupt government

Word.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

School lunches are a means tested benefit.

Just a few pages ago, it apparently wasn't.

According to who? Not the USDA, who happens to administer the program

[Caladan 19]

I've never been on welfare, or public housing, or any means-tested benefit. But I benefited mightily from a government program: federal financial aid for college. (As do many other middle-class taxpayers.)

Did taxes pay for that? Yup. Is society better off for sending bright kids like me to college when their parents can't write the check? I may be biased, but I assume we're better off.

[almaty 19]

I've never been on welfare, or public housing, or any means-tested benefit. But I benefited mightily from a government program: federal financial aid for college. (As do many other middle-class taxpayers.)

Did taxes pay for that? Yup. Is society better off for sending bright kids like me to college when their parents can't write the check? I may be biased, but I assume we're better off.

good point. and a good program..just like the free lunches is....and head start....

of course, allot of folks would rather spend the $$$ on pork barrel politics