Republican Obstructionism

Interestingly enough, not much has happened to the public regarding the sequester. Let a fourth year pass without federal employees getting a COLA increase and see what happens. The blue flu may become a systemic epidemic.

You have people running Gov’t agencies that willingly, repeat willingly, followed Obama’s instructions on the Sequester which was to make the sequester as damaging and inconvenient to the Citizens of the USA as possible. You have a president whose only economic plan is to raise taxes and prop of Gov’t unions. He has presented no other plans. Unemployment is still out of sight and corporations are hoarding trillions because they are scared to death as to what else is up Obama’s sleeve. Every Gov’t official that went along with the “punish the citizens” plan from the sequester without pushing back needs to be let go.

The fiscall cliff is on the horizon again and all I can think about is how I feel like there is a giant green floating head in front of me, screaming at me to pay no attention to what is behind the curtain.

Yes, the system spends much time and money protecting the identity of those on free lunch. But it is wasted time, these days. Kids brag about getting free lunch now.

I would have taken an old heel of bread and folded it over to look like a sandwich before I would have eaten free lunch. It is not that way now.

A teacher close to me, was trying to teach her class about the value of education, so you can work and get a pay check. One girl spoke up, in front of the whole class, and said, " My mom gets a check, and she does'nt work". As I said, they brag about getting something for nothing.

It was brilliant for the school system to switch the lunch billing system from ticket vouchers for free or reduced lunches to a credit card style automated billing system for all lunches way back in the early '90s. In addition to the increased "efficiency", it keeps the free or reduced lunch recipients completely anonymous. I'll bet the kids themselves don't even know who is paying for their meals. What I find especially odd is that food stamp benefits for families with school age children don't decrease during months when school is in session and yet the children also automatically qualify for free breakfast and lunch. That's as many as 40 or so free meals a month per child. Where I come from, we call that double-dipping.

well, ithink, I was not aware that it was that high. I did know, however, that the numbers nationwide ( those that are entitled )have escalated considerably due to this little thing called a recession.do you feel this program should not exist?

Yes, moderation, "as in a minority of kids". In West Virginia 54% are on free and reduced lunches. In our ares it is 68% in Calhoun Co. and 66% in Doddridge.

The mind set of "takers" is that the more free lunches, the better. It is the criteria that qualifies schools for Title 1 programs and other goodies.

Ithink said-"Only in America do the takers have as much as the workers. It starts with the school lunch program where the free lunch kids run up and get another free milk. The few kids who pay for their lunches can't afford another milk." The "few "kids? As in a minority of kids? Comeon Ithink! What you are saying is that the subsidized kids outnumber the ones that do have the resources to purchase lunches. And, if that was a fact, I would say that our society has issues that the learned haven't recognized. But, hey, you and I as well as millions more have it kinda good,now don't we? Happy New Year, ithink.