• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The fact that my partner thought this was a real headline when I told her about it is a scathing indictment of the current republican party platform.

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      "The Republican Study Committee (of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members) on Wednesday released its desired 2024 budget, in which the party boldly declares its priority to eliminate the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, from the School Lunch Program. Why? Because “CEP allows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.”

      https://newrepublic.com/post/173668/republicans-declare-banning-universal-free-school-meals-2024-priority

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        I mean, maybe I’m wrong here, but I’m not against schools providing free healthy lunches to every student regardless of whether their parent makes minimum wage or is in the 1%, so long as we start taxing accordingly. I feel like if we legally make children attend school and get an education (which we should, to be clear) then we should feed them while they are there. If children are fed and learn healthy eating habits in school, it theoretically would set them up much better as they grow older, no? I don’t even have children and would be happy to see my tax dollars go to school lunches.

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          You’re absolutely not wrong there. You have a heart and empathy. Children SHOULD NOT be punished for the financial situation their parents are in. A free school lunch may be the only real meal a child gets all day and that is horrible for their health and development.

          We have the resources to provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner to every child in the public school system, and I absolutely think we should be doing that. Cut subsidies to boondoggles, increase taxes for the top 20%, purchase food in bulk on government contracts that have been negotiated for lower costs, and give children what they deserve.

          Providing a basic need like food for them is the very least a modern rich society can do.

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          It would make sense if the food was actually edible. Michelle essentially ruined the school lunch system by not regulating the shortcuts taken to reduce costs of the program. Had actual investment went into it, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. It’s a waste of money as it is, and should be reformed to be better.

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            1 year ago

            Ah yes, Michelle Obama, the person who famously had zero regulatory authority, ruined school lunch. That’s definitely a thing that happened.

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      1 year ago

      Ah yes, the good ol’ “Well the fact that I believed it really says something about today’s society.”

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I mean, the republican party has gone off the rails with their party platform the last few years that was kind of the point. Do you disagree?

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        I think the fact that this isn’t satire and this is a real and accurate headline says a lot about our society actually.