Canceling Food Program

@MasterLee Feeding hungry and malnourished children is a waste of money?

@SunshineGirl by taxes, yes

@SunshineGirl Overfeeding children leads to childhood diabetes and a whole slew of other diseases. For those who may not understand what’s happening in America, we have an epidemic of childhood obesity that that is a far greater issue than starving children. Our issue with starving children isn’t due to lack of food for the Children but lack of adults that will feed them the food.

@Heartlander Watch the video. The programs cut are school meals and foodbanks. School breakfasts and lunches which are often the only square meal that a child will get to eat. Most of the produce supplied is locally sourced fruit and vegetables.

@SunshineGirl If a school lunch is the only meal a child gets, someone needs to visit the home and ask mom aboutwhat she is doing with those snap payments.

The main cause of people being evicted from public housing is drugs. The next is undocumented cohabitants. I.e. a live in boyfriend kept under radar who eats the kids food but doesn’t share his income. Or the fact that food stamps don’t cover diapers and food stamps get traded for pampers.

I’m not against live in boyfriends, or free school lunches, or the poor. I’m against government systems that fail to provide solutions to fit the circumstances. ALL school lunches should be free for all the kids. Take that off the table, and make a corresponding adjustment to food stamps. Most public housing projects have sufficient number of people to support food service for everyone, I.e. a chow hall like they on military installations. Also a commissary Where essentials can be purchased at low cost.

Public housing projects in the US seem they were intentionally designed to isolate the poor rather than accommodate and support an escape from poverty.

@Heartlander I agree with most of what you say, but such a level of monitoring and accountability would require an expansion rather than a contraction of government. And getting back to the original post . . an efficient program which benefited multiple sections of the population, has been arbitrarily cut by a man who is not overly concerned about rising levels of poverty or malnutrition.