2y ago

Turning Down Food Aid for Millions of Children Reflects Shocking Political Callousness

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Opinion | Turning Down Food Aid for Millions of Children Reflects Shocking Political Callousness

Fifteen states — all but one run by Republican governors — skipped the deadline to apply for a new federally-funded program that will provide $120 per child for groceries during the summer months to families of children who already qualify for free or reduced-price lunch at school.

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2y ago

Turning Down Food Aid for Millions of Children Reflects Shocking Political Callousness

www.nytimes.com /2024/01/17/opinion/summer-lunch-aid.html

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They don’t want poor people to depend on government for food or healthcare but they also refuse to raise their minimum wages.
- they want wage slaves.
  
  Gotta put people on the street so you have people to draft for wwiii who “no one will miss.”
Wait, there was a Democrat that rejected it?
When Louisiana rejected the lunch program, a Democrat was still the governor; on Jan. 8, a Republican took over.
Oh, Louisiana, right, that adds up
They reject the plans saying it doesn’t address quality nutrition or do anything to combat childhood obesity etc…gee I guess fuck those kids and let them starve is a better plan (/s). It’s absolutely out-of-touch and disgusting rhetoric. Of all the groups of people we should care for collectively, kids should be top priority (parent or not, doesn’t matter).
- For them it’s just about saying No to a democrat, then making up some bullshit excuse. The don’t know, or understand, and they certainly don’t care.
Imagine withholding funding for food that would keep children healthy, while denying people medical care when they get sick.
This is sickening. How does this not bother them? (Rhetorical, it’s because they try not to think about it. Then they try even harder to find a way to blame others)
- It doesn't bother them because it doesn't affect them personally.
So pro-life, they let your children starve.
- Well what are we teaching them by giving them food? They'll never have the incentive to work for it if they just get it for free!
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One of the oddballs for the rejection is perhaps South Dakota who indicated that they both lacked the ability to actually administer the program without running afoul of the regulations and lacked the fund to even get it started in the first place.
Or as I took it. We're too incompetent and poor to do this.
Evil, NY Times. The word you're looking for is 'evil.'
if it is a federally-funded program why is it allowed to be state's rights issue?
we need a president that supports federal over state's rights
- What would a federal school meal program that operates without the support of the state/local government look like? If schools were federally run then that would be one thing, but they are not.
  (I’m really sick of people making absolutely horrible things done by the GOP into a criticism of Biden/Democrats for not doing something extraordinary or impossible to keep it from happening. Especially when the GOP deliberately and cynically does the horrible thing to harm the Democrats’ election chances.)
  
  forgot to add only republicans bad you have to vote democrat and everyone has the right to vote here so it is the people not voting and voting republican ruining the country not the corporate owned politicians
  pardon me
- Could you imagine the uproar if the federal government forced these states to participate in programs like this? Having them volunteer seems better in the long run. I mean, if a place like Ohio feels that strongly about not taking money from the government, why stop them? Speaking as someone who lives there, it's on us to vote out the people too stupid/stubborn to take free money.
How else could this play out when the people making those decisions are so far removed from the people they're hurting? They think it's a game to be played for points in the polls, never mind the collateral damage.
In a better world we'd have some kind of test for empathy for those running for office.
"Thanks for coming in, we have your test results back and it turns out you're an irredemable cunt and therefore you can't run, try being less Republican. All the best."
- Psych evals need to be required to hold political office.
Good! I would MUCH rather my taxpayer dollars be used to buy a rich person a new mansion then to FEED STARVING KIDS!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last week I read something that shocked me, even if it really shouldn’t have: Fifteen states — all but one run by Republican governors — skipped the deadline to apply for a new federally-funded program that will provide $120 per child for groceries during the summer months to families of children who already qualify for free or reduced-price lunch at school.
According to KFF, a nonprofit organization focused on health policy, seven of those states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Wyoming — are among those that have not fully extended Medicaid to the poor under the Affordable Care Act.
Imagine withholding funding for food that would keep children healthy, while denying people medical care when they get sick.
The cruelty of it is almost incomprehensible, but I’m convinced that this is all part of the punitive posture of so many of today’s Republicans — which in this case is meant to punish poverty, to intensify hardships: their version of an economic “scared straight” program.
Constantly trying to better our lives and hers, she took evening and summer classes to earn certifications and an advanced degree — and that was when she wasn’t teaching night G.E.D.
But now that it has been cut back, one 2023 report found, four in 10 families who had received that extra benefit are skipping meals.
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Which of these States is run by a Democrat governor?
Shocking?
From another article:
They include: Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Wyoming.
lol. Standard republican behavior.

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