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Abaddon_Ambrosius  Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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I can't believe that there's anyone sane who supports staffing and paying for a school lunch inspector who inspects individual kids' lunches daily... and the program behind that... and the regulation behind that... and the resulting lawsuits behind that... on top of everything else already done for food, parental monitoring, and parental assistance to needy children.
This smells like another litmus test for idiocy, to me.
If you support this program, and you don't see the idiot in this scenario? Look in the mirror.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
I can't believe that there's anyone sane who supports staffing and paying for a school lunch inspector who inspects individual kids' lunches daily... and the program behind that... and the regulation behind that... and the resulting lawsuits behind that... on top of everything else already done for food, parental monitoring, and parental assistance to needy children.
This smells like another litmus test for idiocy, to me.
If you support this program, and you don't see the idiot in this scenario? Look in the mirror.
No no AA, don't you see, this is about a single mistake made by a single inspector at a single school on ONE day! It's totally a non-issue! It has nothing to do with any of the concepts of overreaching government intervention or the inevitability of incompetence and corruption in such programs at all!
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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Cawlin posted:
Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
This smells like another litmus test for idiocy, to me. If you support this program, and you don't see the idiot in this scenario? Look in the mirror.
No no AA, don't you see, this is about a single mistake made by a single inspector at a single school on ONE day! It's totally a non-issue! It has nothing to do with any of the concepts of overreaching government intervention or the inevitability of incompetence and corruption in such programs at all!
OMG! I'm blind! BLIND I tell you!
Someone sign me up for some ADA assistance, stat!
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Tych2 Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Registered: 2005-3-1 06:56:47
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The idea that children that might not get a balanced meal are getting one is a good one. Yup I have no problem with this program.
If we just want to start slinging names at each other lets cut to the chase and do that. I am as good at that as anyone.
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Taliesihne Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Registered: 2004-2-19 04:47:59
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North Carolina ranks as second worst in the nation with food insecurity for people under the age of 5 and 10th worst for all children.
A full 25% of children under the age of 5 in the state of North Carolina don't have access to basic nutrition.
Figured I'd throw that out there. Lots of concern over 'big gumint' - not a whole of discussion as to why this happening.
This is government responding to a crisis in the state.
If you have better ideas, I'm sure NC would love to hear them.
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Why is not eating a lunch such a bad thing?
When I was in school, I never ate lunch. I took the ten bucks a week for meals and bought drugs with it.
There were plenty of kids who didnt eat.a lot of them used the time to get homework done.some ditched that half hour and went out to get high. Some just slept at the lunch table. Aybe some just weren't hungry because they ae a big breakfast and were waiting for a big dinner when they got home.
Even now adays I still dont eat lunch and would really rather work through it and go home a half hour earlier.
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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JFC you guys are tryin' to give me an aneurysm aren't you?
We already have food stamp programs in this country. And SCHIP health programs. And subsidized free school lunch programs. And charity nutrition programs for children in virtually every urbanized area.
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
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I'm actually kinda surprised that a preschool allows parents to send their own meals. I don't think local ones would do such a thing without making you jump through a million hoops, for exactly such a reason.
For what it's worth, I agree wholeheartedly that early childcare is one of the most ridiculous bureaucracies created by government, but I don't know how to avoid it short of restricting all preschool and under childcare facilities to 10 or fewer students each.
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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sweeny_comodore posted:
Why is not eating a lunch such a bad thing?
When I was in school, I never ate lunch. I took the ten bucks a week for meals and bought drugs with it.
I think you just answered your own question, Swirly.
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theredkay1  Posts: 611
Registered: 2008-5-16 10:37:09
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1/1/00 12:01am
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School lunch lady overstepping her bounds is pretty damn far down on the list of problems with the government. The fact that someone out there in the gov't thinks that child nutrition is important is one of the great things about the government for which the magic private market doesnt really have an answer to. The spirit is good, the details are not.
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