Scotlands kids to get free breakfast and lunch under new plans

[rightwinger]

Conservatives reply......Fuk you kid...Get a Job

 

[Tommy Tainant]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

No such thing as free.

Haven't you learned that yet?

Its free at the point of delivery. As these kids grow up and do better in life they will pay taxes and raise families of their own. Everyone benefits. Look on it as investing rather than freebies.

 

[Toro]

"When asked, Scottish kids liked the idea, but with one caveat. "Dun put anny of thet haggis crap init!" said Euan McGregor."

 

[Blues Man]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

No such thing as free.

Haven't you learned that yet?

Its free at the point of delivery. As these kids grow up and do better in life they will pay taxes and raise families of their own. Everyone benefits. Look on it as investing rather than freebies.

It's not free.

Nothing is free

Someone always pays.

 

[OldLady]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Here in America, Trump provides food stamps to millions of poverty stricken families so they can pick up cereal and coffee to feed their kids at home at no cost to them.

Great program, as different kids like different quality cereals. Cap'n Crunch, Count Chocula and Sugar Pops all have their advocates, as well as ethnic inspired cereals like the Irish Lucky Charms.

Shit! Trump provides...are you fuckin' crazy? the SNAP program is hated by the Right...and well you know it.

I note that you just can't help being snarky at the expense of children who are living in poverty--coffee and cereal indeed.

BTW..where I live..we have been giving kids free lunch and breakfast for years..yeah..in that reddest of states..Idaho. Even during the lock-down...volunteers prepared and distributed meals to every kid in public school...and we don't impose a means test--since we think it is the right thing to do.

Kids do better when they are not hungry.

Or murdered by the Choice of their mothers.....Shame that most babies are either killed or starved because their Mommies cant take care of them....Just proves that a progressive woman is stupid as shit....

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

22 trillion dollars has been spent on the War on Poverty yet there is still poverty in the United States.

22,000,000,000,000 going out and not a god damn thing to show for it. Just more bitching and moaning that there needs to be more....With Prog slaves it is never enough...

 

[Blues Man]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

putting the government in charge of nutrition is what led to one third of Americans being morbidly obese

 

[Blues Man]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

22 trillion dollars has been spent on the War on Poverty yet there is still poverty in the United States.

22,000,000,000,000 going out and not a god damn thing to show for it. Just more bitching and moaning that there needs to be more....With Prog slaves it is never enough...

There really isn't that much poverty in the US.

We have the fattest and richest poor people in the world

 

[OldLady]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

putting the government in charge of nutrition is what led to one third of Americans being morbidly obese

What do you mean, the government is in charge of nutrition? They don't do my menu planning.

 

[Meathead]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

Yeah, well why do we have so many dumbshits in the western world after having spent trillions on feeding fat kids? You can only attribute so much to their idiot teachers and parents, so now you default to they're not fat enough?

 

[OldLady]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

Yeah, well why do we have so many dumbshits in the western world after having spent trillions on feeding fat kids? You can only attribute so much to their idiot teachers and parents, so now you default to they're not fat enough?

Are we talking about school lunches or something else? The government has no say what else a kid eats when kid is not in school.

 

[Blues Man]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

putting the government in charge of nutrition is what led to one third of Americans being morbidly obese

What do you mean, the government is in charge of nutrition? They don't do my menu planning.

The government puts out its food pyramid and subsidizes meat egg and dairy farmers all in a bid to get people to eat that stuff. The Standard American Diet is a direct result of not only the government but of the big money from the meat and dairy industries who own the politicians who then give them subsidies

and who do you think chooses the "free" meals handed out by government institutions like schools?

 

[shockedcanadian]

SNP pledges free breakfast and lunch for primary pupils all year round

Scotland’s education secretary, John Swinney, vows to dramatically extend free school meals policy

www.theguardian.com

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

As much as I understand and appreciate these offers for kids, as someone who was given such benefits as a kid. Not food, but certainly winter clothing and other payments to my mother. It's a bittersweet memory for me actually. At some point, the same looking clothes for three years at Christmas told me it wasn't from Santa. It's one thing to be poor, another thing to know it. You don't know it until you meet others who aren't like you.

I imagine it would be tough to be a kid getting that food as it would stigmatize them. Though in such larger numbers maybe it is a more palatable situation. You can't have kids go without food, so, this is a better solution than not eating but I'd consider food bank deliveries to allow some dignity of the parents and allow kids to eat at home if it were feasible.

Regardless. Poverty is spreading across the West, starting with the loss of the Middle Class and leaders are looking for fake explanations. They might say "racism" or "drug use" etc, or some other reason. They won't ever suggest a misuse of government resources, or, outsourcing of jobs to China for the pleasure of being spied on, kidnapped and assaulted. It couldn't possibly be this, because we have been told global socialism is good for us (it is NOT globalism as it's been sold and it's been good for only a few).

It's also a damnation of the welfare system to have such programs. The biggest culprit is probably the cost of housing. Rent eats up so much of ones resources on a fixed income that places like London and Toronto are unlivable places for the poor.

 

[Meathead]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

Yeah, well why do we have so many dumbshits in the western world after having spent trillions on feeding fat kids? You can only attribute so much to their idiot teachers and parents, so now you default to they're not fat enough?

Are we talking about school lunches or something else? The government has no say what else a kid eats when kid is not in school.

That's because you can buy Snickers bars with food stamps.

 

[harmonica]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

....let me give you some news, if the parents can't get them food, nutrition is the least of their worries
...you obviously don't comprehend--if you keep giving ''''''free''' shit out, the cycle continues.....
..there's a ton of other '''free'' shit programs......
..my niece had not 1, not 2, not 3--but FOUR kids--and the fathers are not around!!!!
..stop that stupid shit

 

[ReinyDays]

What awful comments ... some people really hate children ... of course we give things to them for free ... we change their diapers, we cut their food up into small piece ... we pay to educate them ... money used to feed children is money well spent ... if you want to bitch about costs, then bitch about politicians stealing your tax dollars ... what kind of awful person would take food out of a child's mouth and have it spent on operating a VC-22? ...

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Scotland could become the first UK nation to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every primary school child all year round, after the SNP pledged to do so if re-elected next May.

Speaking at the party’s conference, the Scottish education secretary, John Swinney, made the policy commitment as he claimed that the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “second wave of austerity” would unleash a “tsunami of child poverty” in Scotland.

Sensible socialism in action. Nobody gets left behind.

Why not? Why should parents have to be responsible and actually parent their children?

 

[OldLady]

..it just promotes people to not have any financial or familial responsibility = the kids grow up the same = cycle continues

Growing children with developing brains need good nutrition. Just hoping all parents will provide it doesn't work as a policy. I hear your objection, but the problem isn't the kids and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.

putting the government in charge of nutrition is what led to one third of Americans being morbidly obese

What do you mean, the government is in charge of nutrition? They don't do my menu planning.

The government puts out its food pyramid and subsidizes meat egg and dairy farmers all in a bid to get people to eat that stuff. The Standard American Diet is a direct result of not only the government but of the big money from the meat and dairy industries who own the politicians who then give them subsidies

and who do you think chooses the "free" meals handed out by government institutions like schools?

Protein is necessary. The food pyramid doesn't make people fat. Over processed convenience foods and fast foods on every corner do. People are too busy to cook, or they're doing the easy thing. People tend to do the easier thing when it's available. You want to get rid of frozen meals and Hamburger Helper, seasoned rice in a microwaveable pouch, beef stew in a can? They're even selling mashed potatoes in the dairy aisle, crappy meals in the deli counter.

 

[ReinyDays]

....let me give you some news, if the parents can't get them food, nutrition is the least of their worries
...you obviously don't comprehend--if you keep giving ''''''free''' shit out, the cycle continues.....
..there's a ton of other '''free'' shit programs......
..my niece had not 1, not 2, not 3--but FOUR kids--and the fathers are not around!!!!
..stop that stupid shit

The "stupid shit" here is not making the fathers pay ... has anyone bothered to contact the local DA and report these guys for "failure to pay child support" ... that's a felony here in Oregon if the amount goes over $10,000 in arrears ...

Your taxes pay for these men to have free sex ... and the cycle continues ... "papa never paid child support, I won't have to either" ...