Wednesday, September 26, 2012
BTW - the school lunch menu fiasco epitomizes Dem Philosophy
It's a one size fits all approach. It's the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. If they had their choice, every American would earn the exact same wage. We would all live in nearly identical housing units. All obtain the exact rationed amount of health care as anyone else received.
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So what is your plan? Would you like to see the poor kids go hungry to the point they are unable to go to school. That would certainly leave more resources for the ones who paid for them.
ReplyDeleteIf we are going to say that we value human life, we need to walk the walk. This will involve a lot more effort on the part of the entire community to change the direction we are heading.
"So what is your plan?"
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Anytime you question live on his endless talking point bullshit, he fades to the woodwork. Republicans don't want to see poor kids go hungry. What they really want is for the lazy poor to get off their ass and magically do better and not make their kids a burden on everyone else. Short of that, they simply want the poor to STF up and endure their deserved fate in relative silence and obscurity.
We don't value life in this country storm unless there is an opportunity to make ourselves feel good in valuing it. No doubt we care for our kin, but anyone else we help is likely to just come back and take something away from us later, or worse still, will simply stay in bed and never ever lift a finger to help themselves again because our good deed made them dependent. We embrace Christianity, but reject the message of Christ and especially the life he lived and in choosing Paul Ryan, there is no better example of that contradiction.
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DeleteSo, what do you suggest? Soon or late, those refusing some degree of personal responsibility need to be forced, yes? It almost sounds as if you're arguing with yourself, and I don't mean that in a negative way. More like that conundrum I mention below.
Jean
"It almost sounds as if you're arguing with yourself, "
DeleteWhen you ask me a question and answer it yourself, you are just talking to yourself, no? Regardless of topic, LIvestrongest has chosen to vomit talking points all over us. It's the perpetual bullshit that liberals want everyone and everything to be equal. Gottaloveit also seems to believe fervently this is the case. I don't hear this dogma from any elected Democrat, and none of the other posters who claim to be left suggest it either. But look at gotta's post below, it's at the heart of the matter. Some people in this country are so obsessed with someone getting over on them that they will buy into any sledgehammer logic to defend what's theirs.
Poor kids are starving in America? WHERE???? There were no free lunches when I was a child and none of my "poor" friends ever starved to death.
ReplyDeleteThe one size fits all thing about school lunches might be a reference to all kids getting the same portions, regardless of their gender and size.
ReplyDeleteAs a sidebar, kids and the school system is a real mess. Someone I know who works in the system tells me stories, sad ones, about kids in elementary public school. What they get to eat are the only meals they get, or at best the most substantial. You would agree that is not a god situation, no?
But, this is another case, departing from the topic, of a government program trying to be the nanny. That is treating the symptom, yes? The root cause is inadequacy of home life, for many reasons: parents trying their best with the abilities they have, but falling short; a single parent who made a poor choice; a creep for a parent, or two for two.
A conundrum, to be sure. How are thoses case, except where the parent or parents are using their skills to the utmost, to be dealt with, without the children being caught in the middle? Throwing more money at the problem doesn't seem to cut it, huh?
Depressing situation to ponder.
Jean
Jean It appears that that throwing money at problems is the Liberal solution to everything.
DeleteThe epidemic of obesity did not occur because school lunch programs. It's all the crap kids get outside of school that is making them fat. It's also because the parents let their kids play Nintendo inside instead of going outside for cardio exercise. You see some fat kid put down nearly 2500 calories of refried beans, chicken, cheese and rice its not about genetics. It should be up to the parents. What do parents do to keep their kids in shape? They cut back calories and increase exercise. So if you want to defer that job to the school. You evaluate the kids by weight. Fat kids get restricted diets AND have to go run around the school track twice before they get their serving.
ReplyDeleteMight have something to do with activity level. We ate garbage food at school however we have Phys. ed every day from Middle School to High school.
DeleteI ate a lot of crappy food too when I was younger, but i agree with you on the activity factor. As an aside though, we also didn't have corn syrup in everything we ate.
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