One of the key components of being a parent (so I’ve been told) is being able to feed your kids. The great American thinker and philosopher Michael Jackson once said, “if you can’t feed your baby, then don’t have a baby.”
Inspirational words to live by.
Apparently, some individuals with more socialist ideals don’t agree. Many parents in California received emails as the school year was ending regarding school meals. Now, in California, as in many other states, school lunches are provided to kids whose parents can’t afford to pack them a lunch. For obvious reasons, this is a difficult policy to argue against. Any hint of criticism coming from the responsible taxpayer will always be met with droves of accusations claiming that the opposing party wants children to starve.
Of course, that is not true. But it begs the question: why is feeding every child the state’s role?
This program has been around for quite some time, and feeding children from low income households was never really an unpopular idea. The criticism started to roll in when the school lunch program did as all government programs do, and expanded. People began questioning the fairness ad equality of the program, school lunches for some kids, but not others? Expand. Just lunch? Kids get hungry all day, you know. Expand. Now, the school lunch program, has become the school breakfast, lunch, AND dinner program for all.
Parents in many parts of California received an email as the school year was coming to a close that not only were all three meals provided to every single kid, but they’d also be available during the summer… Every meal, every kid, year around.
Maybe you don’t have a problem with this… that’s fine. But lets all make sure we’re aware of what’s happening. Nobody voted for this. This wasn’t on any bill anywhere for people to have a say. It just kinda happened. The theory that claims this is just another ploy to get more people on the government food program, suddenly isn’t all that big of a stretch. Thinking that this program, like many others, might just be a way to get people to fully depend on the government, isn’t too far from the truth.
The bottom line here, and the question that I’d like to have answered by my friends on the left is, where does it stop? Apparently, states like California don’t think that feeding your kids, the literal bare minimum of parenthood, isn’t something that should be necessary for parents to do. When do we draw the line.
