In the US, maybe. Civilized countries don't do that.
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I WISH I lived in One of the Countries my Tax Dollars fund that Allows Children to EAT!
I have a suggestion: let corporations adopt children.
What if we instead forced corporations to pay fair wages and taxes in the regions they operate in so that their employees have access to the resources needed to raise their own kids?
Eh, that's probably communism.
Wait, I thought we were doing a make the Earth a hellscape competition?
I was just giving suggestions.
Richest nation in the history of our species...
Enforcing this will cost more than just feeding the kids would.
You forget that slavery is still legal for prisoners. They will put you in prison for stupid reasons because they want tons of free labor.
Land of the free labour.
We've been a prison country for a long time now bud. They'll find a way.
America is 3% of the world population, yet has 25% of the worlds prison population. America runs on prison labor and debt slavery
Nope, this isnt a labor supply solution.
This is just for the love of the game.
Unfortunately it is a little of both. So many of our industries are subsidized by prison labor that it would be very disruptive for them to change it. Absolutely not saying we shouldnt. Just that that is why the centrist fucks wont move a muscle on prison reform
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Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr.
That movie isn’t funny anymore.
President Camacho knew that there was a problem and actively recruited the smartest person he could find...completely unrealistic.
Terry Crews, without any additional training, would literally be the best president since Carter.
Is there any other country where "lunch debt" is even a thing?
Yes, but it often works the other way. I've gone to school in Asia, Europe and Australia. IME lunch ladies will let some kids tick food up when they lack the funds.
Some kids pay it back, but I know for a fact many come from families who lack the means and they let it slide.
Ironic seeing a country like the USA so obsessed with Jesus being as far from his teachings as you can go.
Maybe we should do what Israel does and give people a monthly $260 per child payment until the child turns 18? I mean we pay for it there so why not implement it here?
Didn't pay your Minch money? Then the state will now spend thousands over thousands of dollars to ruin your child's life!
Seriously fucked up. They could feed all those kids for free for a fraction of what it would cost the state to forcibly put them in foster care.
I'm always reminded that the cruelty IS the point.
They could feed all the children for free for the cost of forcibly taking one child away.
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Why do we even have this orphan-crushing machine?
Instructions unclear, the orphan-crushing macgine now crushes non-orphans as well.
Imagine a child who grew up in lunch debt. Constantly aware of how awful their life is. Now take a portion of them at 18, give them training and weapons and send them to some country they grew up being told is bad and even responsible for their suffering. Tada.
My mom worked full-time as a lunch lady, my dad full-time as a janitor. We had reduced lunch ($.40) and once got a letter for -.$20 with a $.34 stamp.
The more you crush them the harder they work.
Same for adults.
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The district says that it is trying to collect more than $20,000, and that other methods to get parents to pay have not been successful. Four parents owe at least $450 apiece. The letter claims the unpaid bills could lead to dependency hearings and removal of their children for not providing them with food. "You can be sent to dependency court for neglecting your child's right to food. The result may be your child being taken from your home and placed in foster care," the letter read. After complaints, district officials announced they plan to send out a less threatening letter next week. Luzerne County's manager and child welfare agency director have written the superintendent, insisting the district stop making what they call false claims. Their letter calls the district's actions troubling and a misrepresentation of how the Children and Youth Services Department and its foster care program operate. Wyoming Valley West's lawyer, Charles Coslett, said he did not consider the letters to be threatening. "Hopefully, that gets their attention and it certainly did, didn't it? I mean, if you think about it, you're here this morning because some parents cried foul because he or she doesn't want to pay a debt attributed to feeding their kids. How shameful," Coslett told WYOU-TV.
What a lovely person this Charles Coslett, attorney at law, is!
because he or she doesn’t want to pay a debt attributed to feeding their kids.
$450 is like two trips to the grocery store these days, or even less for a big family. Maybe the parents aren't paying the school bill because they did spend the money on food. Everything's expensive as hell.
How shameful
Yes, threatening parents for being poor in an unaffordable country without social safety nets is shameful.
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whY wOn'T pOEpLe hAvE MoRE kIdS??
So that whole "greatest country in the world" thing was just propaganda?
Well shit.
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Something you'd hear Americans say it happens in communist countries
Meahwhile, Some counties in Maryland have made school lunches free for all kids.
All of California, too
Basic school food is one of those things; it's not free, but it's not that expensive done in bulk. These kids need a couple of bucks a meal, only on school days
Baltimore city, free lunch and breakfast! Grades and performance....not so good tho.
Don't let perfection be the enemy of good, I say.
I cannot explain how, but I feel that this is just another start of great scheme on how to make Epstein's island 2.0.
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So instead of free lunch we will take and house your kids and feed them and deprive them of family. Which will cost 100x more and is 10000x more evil than making kids pay for lunch
I feel like pointing out a 6 year old edge case, where the school was rightly screeched at by just about everyone saying this is insane, followed up by an immediate apology, and funding to provide food to everyone is both a poor example of propaganda as well as a pretty decent case for safety kicking in at some point.
Sounds like the school was pretty poor and just made a bad decision to try and get more parents to pay.
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