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[evildevil]

For Every Dollar You Spend on a Starving Child, You Could Feed a Wealthy Oil Baron in hors d'œuvres before the Main Course.

Montana GOPer Fears School Lunch Fraud Is Eating Taxpayer Money

Rep. Dennis Rehberg (R-MT), who’s expected to face Sen. John Tester (D) in the Montana Senate race next year, is worried that some families who receive federally-

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[amyura]

School lunches almost universally suck. People generally don't try to get the free lunch unless they really do need it, IME.

[romp]

“At the same time he’s voted to increase his own pay 5 times and to protect subsidies for oil companies. Well, Dennis, the fraud is you telling Montana families that you’re on their side.”

Tester's chances look pretty next year IMO.

[kangofu]

BRB, mailing this guy a punch in the mouth.

[poetic_pixie_13]

[adirtylollipop]

My mom works at an elementary school in one of those "lower-level underpaid positions, but actually pretty much runs the entire show here" jobs, and says a huge portion of people who qualify for free lunch actually don't even apply for it. Because school lunch fucking sucks and you don't really want it unless you don't have another option. And for the kids who do, a lot of the times it's the only food they'll get to eat all day. Kids eating a couple hundred dollars in food a year at our public school is NOT what is sucking this country dry.

[amyura]

Yup. Exactly this. Around here they've actually had to extend the school lunch program into the summer for the families that need it, because the ones who use it, NEED it and the kids were going hungry during vacations.

[sobota]

Some counties in Georgia (the state) have done this but it's all private because there's apparently 'no money' although honestly, most counties have a nest-egg for exactly these problems but aren't using them.

[the_gabih]

I actually don't remember school lunches being all that bad (and I was one of those kids who pretty much ate them and nothing else), though I guess that might be the fact that my memory of them is a bit old now.