Paul Ryan Claims Free School Lunches Make Children Feel Unloved

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NIKI2

Friday, March 7, 2014 6:51 AM

Paul Ryan told a fictional story at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) about a poor kid who resents receiving free school lunch because it means his parents don’t love him. Seriously:

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“He didn’t want a free lunch,” Ryan insisted. “He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag, just like the other kids.”

“He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand.”

Yeah, right. There are millions of kids out there who don't get lunches provided by their parents in cute little brown paper bags because their parents don't love them...not because they're too poor.

In the 2011 The New York Times reported ( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/education/surge-in-free-school-lunch
es-reflects-economic-crisis.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&;) that 21 million kids were receiving subsidized lunches across the United States. Twenty-one million kids. For many of those kids that meal is the only real meal they will get all day.

When kids do not eat, they can not think. Imagine being a little kid with a growling belly. Does he really expect us to believe that any hungry child is going to care where his food came from? Especially a young one? Of course, they aren’t. They are going to be grateful that their stomachs are not growling even for a little while.

So what happens when these kids are hungry? Well they can’t concentrate. When they can’t concentrate, they are not learning. Then when those kids go to take standardized tests, their scores may not be as high as they could be. That of course affects the school’s grade, which in turn affects funding and so on and so on.

This is reality. This is not a fantasy like Ryan’s. What kind of fantasy world does he think we live in...and/or, how stupid does he really think we ARE? Or is it that the audience at CPAC really IS that stupid?

Thank gawd they didn't get elected!

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, March 7, 2014 7:09 AM

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Or is it that the audience at CPAC really IS that stupid?

More or less - they're so desperate to believe in their theoretical social models (which do not, and in fact cannot, work in practice) that they'll snatch up any thread of make-believe "evidence" to "prove" it to themselves, out of a need to believe these things to justify their own horrific and inexcuseable behavior, and to avoid facing the simple fact that they've based a substantial portion of their whole life and existence on lies, that they've "been had", and they'd peel their own skin off and roll in salt rather than admit this.

Basically a combination of authoritarianism mixed with sunk cost fallacy as a lifestyle, taken to a degree beyond anything even remotely resembling sanity, cause a lot of them *DO* believe this crap they spout, and why shouldn't they, given that they are so insulated and isolated from anything even close to reality within their private party circlejerks, it's not like they ever have to face any real evidence that contradicts it.

Yanno, kinda like them French Nobles I mentioned in another thread.
And we all know how that went.

-Frem

WISHIMAY

Friday, March 7, 2014 8:42 AM

When my parents got divorced and I started Jr. High, my mother found out she could take free lunch. All I had to do was say the word "program" at the lunch counter and it was free. I couldn't do it. I stopped eating, sneaking whatever pre-packaged crap I could find from home. And no one noticed. For six years.

It was a HUGE thing for me. That one little word was so much more. It represented everything that had gone wrong in my life and it made me feel dirty and poor and a burden. So, yeah, I have to agree. If ye can't feed 'em proper, don't breed 'em. I'd take up mugging before I'd let my kid take government cheese....

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, March 7, 2014 4:27 PM

Feh, I say we go the other way, roll that into the education budget and feed em all.

Seriously, it would not in any material way increase the education budget to simply offer 1-2 meals as part of the damn curriculum, if they wanna brown bag it anyway, that's okay too, but the offer, you know ?
Surely a better use of tax dollars than bombs and plots and spies, innit ?

And while not to decry your bent for self-reliance, lemme give you my perspective - see, when I was living in the deep dark ghetto, there was this lady a couple doors down, who despite pressing and actual need, refused to apply for assistance, and refused to take charity, and she had two kids - two kids who were plainly and obviously malnourished, due to her goddamn pride.
Even though I had so little I couldn't really spare it, I would sneak those kids PB&J sandwiches on the sly, it was all I had, and it meant I went hungry for a bit, but damn me I couldn't just sit back and watch that even though I was generally nihilistic and hateful of humanity as a whole at the time.

When my tax dollars feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, or heal the sick and injured, I have no grudge about it whatever - whether they "need" it or not.
Even though I am antagonistic to Christianity, to make a point here, ya didn't see Jesus checkin incomes when he handed out the loaves and the fishes, neh ?

-Frem

AURAPTOR

Friday, March 7, 2014 7:08 PM

Dems routinely tell fictional stories. Yet THIS gets your attention?

Paul Ryan got a good reaction @ CPAC. By Leftie logic, he should be destroyed.

Obama told more than one big lie, and breaks promises to all Americans

Gitmo

Deepening of 'gulf coast' ports, like Savannah.

And you whine about what Paul Ryan says ?

Please.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

AURAPTOR

Friday, March 7, 2014 7:10 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
When my parents got divorced and I started Jr. High, my mother found out she could take free lunch. All I had to do was say the word "program" at the lunch counter and it was free. I couldn't do it. I stopped eating, sneaking whatever pre-packaged crap I could find from home. And no one noticed. For six years.

It was a HUGE thing for me. That one little word was so much more. It represented everything that had gone wrong in my life and it made me feel dirty and poor and a burden. So, yeah, I have to agree. If ye can't feed 'em proper, don't breed 'em. I'd take up mugging before I'd let my kid take government cheese....

Awesome!

Glad someone gets it.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

STORYMARK

Friday, March 7, 2014 9:29 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
So, yeah, I have to agree. If ye can't feed 'em proper, don't breed 'em.

What, in the fantasy world where no one's circumstances never change??

Should your mother have never had you - in case she got divorced?

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

REAVERFAN

Friday, March 7, 2014 9:54 PM

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

Feh, I say we go the other way, roll that into the education budget and feed em all.

Seriously, it would not in any material way increase the education budget to simply offer 1-2 meals as part of the damn curriculum, if they wanna brown bag it anyway, that's okay too, but the offer, you know ?
Surely a better use of tax dollars than bombs and plots and spies, innit ?

And while not to decry your bent for self-reliance, lemme give you my perspective - see, when I was living in the deep dark ghetto, there was this lady a couple doors down, who despite pressing and actual need, refused to apply for assistance, and refused to take charity, and she had two kids - two kids who were plainly and obviously malnourished, due to her goddamn pride.
Even though I had so little I couldn't really spare it, I would sneak those kids PB&J sandwiches on the sly, it was all I had, and it meant I went hungry for a bit, but damn me I couldn't just sit back and watch that even though I was generally nihilistic and hateful of humanity as a whole at the time.

When my tax dollars feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, or heal the sick and injured, I have no grudge about it whatever - whether they "need" it or not.
Even though I am antagonistic to Christianity, to make a point here, ya didn't see Jesus checkin incomes when he handed out the loaves and the fishes, neh ?

-Frem

This. Kids don't do well without an adequate diet, and can develop other problems as they grow up. 2 decent meals at school for all of them, regardless of income, is cheap and fair: Much cheaper than dealing with adults who never learned much because they lacked nutrients.

I call that a good use of my tax dollars, and would gladly pay for it.

WISHIMAY

Friday, March 7, 2014 11:32 PM

People fall on hard times, I get.
My hardship was entirely my mothers doing. I could go on all day about how much she equates a persons worth in ACTUAL dollars, but I won't.
She didn't NEED free assistance, she did it solely because she saw dollar signs and felt like she was getting her "just desserts" from the system.
I really do wonder if she EVER thought about how I felt. About ANYTHING...
But then, Narcissists rarely do.

Edited to add:
Yes, REALLY DO wish someone had figured out she has a Narcissistic Personality, and had counseled her to never have children.

NIKI2

Saturday, March 8, 2014 1:30 AM

Strangely, Wish, I think your mom and mine had a lot in common. My therapist at the time dx'd mine "post mortem" as having NPD, and what you just wrote fits mine to a "T". From one survivor to another, my deepest sympathies.

Otherwise,

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When my tax dollars feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, or heal the sick and injured, I have no grudge about it whatever - whether they "need" it or not.

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I call that a good use of my tax dollars, and would gladly pay for it.

I'm with Frem and Fan.

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