Republican now hate hungry children

[Xenon]

The problem with you conservatives on this issue is that children have no say in who their parents are. Think beyond yourselves for once in your damned evil pathetic lives.

 

[Infohawk]

The problem with you conservatives on this issue is that children have no say in who their parents are. Think beyond yourselves for once in your damned evil pathetic lives.

What are you doing to help starving children in Africa? Do you own a TV? If so you're ethics are questionable according to your logic. You could be spending that flatscreen money on children anywhere in the world. They have no control over which country they were born in after all.

 

[*kjm]

The problem with you conservatives on this issue is that children have no say in who their parents are. Think beyond yourselves for once in your damned evil pathetic lives.

Spoke as someone who has not put into the system for 30 years and they are talking about taking stuff away!

 

[*kjm]

What are you doing to help starving children in Africa? Do you own a TV? If so you're ethics are questionable according to your logic. You could be spending that flatscreen money on children anywhere in the world. They have no control over which country they were born in after all.

Great point.

 

[xj0hnx]

The problem with you conservatives on this issue is that children have no say in who their parents are. Think beyond yourselves for once in your damned evil pathetic lives.

On an individual, and charitable level I feel ya, but not under force of law.

 

[spacejamz]

Maybe if the parents of these kids didn't have iphones with dataplans and unlimited texting and driving an escalade with 22" wheels, they might be able to afford to feed their kids...

 

[werepossum]

Maybe if the parents of these kids didn't have iphones with dataplans and unlimited texting and driving an escalade with 22" wheels, they might be able to afford to feed their kids...

Kids eligible for these after school "free" lunches are already on food stamps. It isn't that their parents can't afford to feed them, we're already paying to make sure they can afford to feed their children (as we should.) They are just too damned trifling to do so AND we've taught them that feeding their own children is government's job - even if we've already paid for their meals once.

I'll say it again - people who receive food stamps and free housing and yet still can't manage to feed their own children do not deserve to keep pets, much less children.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Kids eligible for these after school "free" lunches are already on food stamps. It isn't that their parents can't afford to feed them, we're already paying to make sure they can afford to feed their children (as we should.) They are just too damned trifling to do so AND we've taught them that feeding their own children is government's job - even if we've already paid for their meals once.

I'll say it again - people who receive food stamps and free housing and yet still can't manage to feed their own children do not deserve to keep pets, much less children.

This :thumbsup:

 

[wirelessenabled]

We should NOT provide lunches or breakfast for kids. That program just keeps expanding, now they have to have it run in the summer, when school is not in session.

If you are so inept or lazy not to provide your kids food, you shouldn't be a parent.

The kids are already born/there inept/lazy parents or not.

Plan B?

 

[ericlp]

How about that the bill allows the govermnet to reach into the areas of local responsibility.

What is wrong with having background checks on those that work with the children?

Yep, more pork and greed... Who ya liking it so far?

 

[Craig234]

Maybe if the parents of these kids didn't have iphones with dataplans and unlimited texting and driving an escalade with 22" wheels, they might be able to afford to feed their kids...

What a poisonous ideology has been pushed on many Americans, filled with lies.

The problem has nothing to do with policies shifting wealth to the top. It's greedy poor.

There's no issue with the skyrocketing concentration of income among people making millions, it's how those whose incomes in the bottom 20% are *declining* are greedy.

Over the last 30 years IIRC people in the top 0.1% are up over a thousand percent, while those in the bottom 20% who get 0.1% of income and have negative wealth - are DOWN.

(After inflation for both).

 

[Zebo]

I hope and prey I am wrong and we don't have a "sudden stop" or hyperinflation. We don't even have an economy that can absorb 60-75 million in the workforce. It's not their fault righties. See my sig.

 

[dmcowen674]

I hope and prey I am wrong and we don't have a "sudden stop" or hyperinflation. We don't even have an economy that can absorb 60-75 million in the workforce. It's not their fault righties. See my sig.


How can President Obama restart an economy that has been moved offshore?

He can't

Unless Americans stop voting in the Republican America haters it's all over.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

He can't

Unless Americans stop voting in the Republican America haters it's all over.

You're an America hater. You voted for Bush twice.

 

[MrX8503]

So what do these kids learn? What the system teaches:
Hard work is for chumps, it never really makes your life any better.
Education is for chumps, it never really makes your life any better.
Having a job really doesn't make much difference in your standard of living.
There's no need to teach or even feed your children; that's government's job.
Having a good job really doesn't make much difference in your standard of living, over a bad job or no job.
Have another child, get another check. Guaranteed.
Through some magical process, a very few people become wealthy. These are all sports figures, or entertainers. It's all luck, really. And that's the only way to measurably improve one's life.

These kids are not stupid. They see the system we've set up for what it is - a system where hard work and education are largely unrelated to rewards.

...and you know this how? I think you're making way too many generalizations. You don't have to be wealthy to improve one's life. There are people out there where the system has gotten people on their feet.

What are you doing to help starving children in Africa? Do you own a TV? If so you're ethics are questionable according to your logic. You could be spending that flatscreen money on children anywhere in the world. They have no control over which country they were born in after all.

It's not possible to help everyone and every cause. In the US we have taxes because then we are able to support everyone in the country as a collective group.

 

[fskimospy]

...and you know this how? I think you're making way too many generalizations. You don't have to be wealthy to improve one's life. There are people out there where the system has gotten people on their feet.

Of course he doesn't know any of that, he's just making this stuff up in order to validate his world view... which is sort of the problem. How do you argue against something like what he posted? It's so inane, so completely factless, what can you really do?

 

[Infohawk]

It's not possible to help everyone and every cause. In the US we have taxes because then we are able to support everyone in the country as a collective group.

It would be possible to help the kids in Africa. You would just have to lose your disposable income. Your last sentence doesn't make much sense and uses circular reasoning.

 

[JockoJohnson]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. It seems that way with every piece of legislation that the Dems and Repubs come up with. Dems say to do it for the kids, the elderly, the disabled -- whatever to pull at people's heart strings. The Repubs do stuff (or stop stuff) for fiscal reasons which isn't always the best move. Money does need to get spent in Washington, can't stop all spending.

In this case, I think it needs a second look before passing. Gov't needs to stop taking responsibility away from parents/people and actually start forcing more people to be responsible for their actions.

 

[JD50]

OP you're jumping the shark.

 

[Attic]

Feed the kids. I don't think any one of us would view the idea of a child continually sitting at lunch watching other kids eat while he/she goes hungry that much differently. Find a way to feed him/her.

Offer the service to all the kids though. We don't need to be breeding a group of kids who feel entilted to things just because they are underprivelged. Cut the crap with the government dictating who deserves what and let the government provide something and let the poeple choose whether to accept or go after it.

Then lead that kind of idea to how financial aid is handled and move the children to adults by promoting the idea that they need to earn what they are given and/or want. Financial aid should be given to top 10-20% achievers and have the grants be performance driven.

When you start making all this crap need based you promote a continual reliance on welfare for people.


Set some standards, let everyone do there thing from there.

 

[MrX8503]

It would be possible to help the kids in Africa. You would just have to lose your disposable income. Your last sentence doesn't make much sense and uses circular reasoning.

You could lose all of your income and you still wouldn't be able to help the kids in Africa.

What I'm saying is that all the people complaining "this money is mine, I earned it" kind of mentality are forgetting how taxes to work. We pay taxes so that the US as a collective group of people can prosper.

You pay taxes and may not use every single road in your state, you may not be on welfare, you may not send your kids to the public schools, but that is not the point. The point is that everyone puts in their fair share whether you use the government services or not.

 

[Hacp]

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I wonder how that $4.5 billion compares to the amount of the upper-class tax cuts they want to extend?

Sorry if this is a repost, couldn't find another thread.

Edit: Yay, my first 100+ post thread! Thanks, greedy Republicans!

Hungry children? In the USA, our poor are fatter than the rich.

 

[Hacp]

You could lose all of your income and you still wouldn't be able to help the kids in Africa.

What I'm saying is that all the people complaining "this money is mine, I earned it" kind of mentality are forgetting how taxes to work. We pay taxes so that the US as a collective group of people can prosper.

You pay taxes and may not use every single road in your state, you may not be on welfare, you may not send your kids to the public schools, but that is not the point. The point is that everyone puts in their fair share whether you use the government services or not.

By fair share, you mean steal from the productive so union members and high school dropouts can cash out?

 

[CitizenKain]

By fair share, you mean steal from the productive so union members and high school dropouts can cash out?

Ahh, good ol union hate from someone living off of someone else's money.

 

[Jhhnn]

Why, feeding hungry children from screwed up families would be soshulist, and we can't have that.

Besides that, we need to cut taxes for billionaires, buy more F22's, build more aircraft carriers, create new nukes and bail out fatcat bankers...

I mean, why do libruhls hate Amerika so much, anyway? Sheesh.