Lunch shaming continues to hit the headlines..

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-schoo...40943.html

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Pennsylvania school lunch debt furor ends with an apology and an announcement: free lunch for all (CNN)A cash-strapped school district in Pennsylvania's coal country has reversed course on its controversial approach to settling the lunch debt of several students.
The Wyoming Valley West School District issued an online apology Wednesday for sending letters to parents earlier this month that threatened to put children in foster care if lunch money debts were not paid. Not only did the school board sincerely apologize "for the tone of the letter," it also decided to accept the "generous offer" of a benefactor who offered to pay the school lunch debts, the apology note stated.

A CEO says a school district turned down his offer to pay lunch bills for families threatened with foster care

At the same time, the school district announced that it now qualifies for the Community Eligibility Provision, a USDA Food and Nutrition Service program "As a result, all students of the Wyoming Valley West School District will receive free breakfast and lunch in all of our schools for the next five years regardless of income," according to the Wyoming Valley West School Board.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/pennsy...index.html

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Well that's awfully nice of uncle Sam to agree to for me to feed every kid in that district regardless of need.  

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I am trying to square up the idea of a "christian nation" where CEO's make well over 300 times that of their entry level workers and we bastardize the poorest who can't afford to pay for their children's lunches. There is going to be a reckoning in this country the likes we have never seen before. Who lays slain at the end of it will be interesting. I am betting that it won't be the average worker or the poor and impoverished. For all the bitching about the government, when they have been pushed out of the way the real devil will become recognizable by it's greed. Until then, we for some reason hold them up as paragons of virtue. Strange. 

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@Mike Olson said:
I am trying to square up the idea of a "christian nation" where CEO's make well over 300 times that of their entry level workers and we bastardize the poorest who can't afford to pay for their children's lunches. There is going to be a reckoning in this country the likes we have never seen before. Who lays slain at the end of it will be interesting. I am betting that it won't be the average worker or the poor and impoverished. For all the bitching about the government, when they have been pushed out of the way the real devil will become recognizable by it's greed. Until then, we for some reason hold them up as paragons of virtue. Strange. 

Capitalism isn't perfect.  And part of the reason that it works is due to "greed" (a desire for people to make more money).  If you've got a better economic system, let's hear it.  Meanwhile, capitalism and democracy have saved millions of lives and enriched the lives of hundreds of millions more.  For all the bitching about income inequality, our poor people are (in general) STILL  richer than any other "poor" people in the world.  And our middle class is richer than 95% of the rest of the world.  

But if you've got a better system... let's hear it.

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@pumpf said:

@Mike Olson said:
I am trying to square up the idea of a "christian nation" where CEO's make well over 300 times that of their entry level workers and we bastardize the poorest who can't afford to pay for their children's lunches. There is going to be a reckoning in this country the likes we have never seen before. Who lays slain at the end of it will be interesting. I am betting that it won't be the average worker or the poor and impoverished. For all the bitching about the government, when they have been pushed out of the way the real devil will become recognizable by it's greed. Until then, we for some reason hold them up as paragons of virtue. Strange. 

Capitalism isn't perfect.  And part of the reason that it works is due to "greed" (a desire for people to make more money).  If you've got a better economic system, let's hear it.  Meanwhile, capitalism and democracy have saved millions of lives and enriched the lives of hundreds of millions more.  For all the bitching about income inequality, our poor people are (in general) STILL  richer than any other "poor" people in the world.  And our middle class is richer than 95% of the rest of the world.  

But if you've got a better system... let's hear it.

its not perfect, but there is no such thing as Utopia.