Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "These Kids Are Restoring Free School Meals For All Students" video.

Nice but this obscures the real issue- that of counties not mandating that children have a right to EAT FOOD!!! Public education should include FOOD all throughout the day. When you're on public school property you are an essence a temporary ward of the State and they have a moral obligation to provide for your safety and your mental and physical well-being. This includes FOOD!! (because most people like to eat at least once during the day) FREE OF CHARGE BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR THROUGH TAXES. Edit: and if they need more funds, modestly increase local taxes then allot them to the local schools. I mean, these solutions aren't hard. That local PD sure isn't running into any funding problems.
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Yep, although getting a little tired of hearing that quote every time a subject like this comes up but yes, sure. Try something original next time but yeah I mean the spirit of it is appreciated
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Food isn't a luxury. Food should be considered part of what the State is obligated to provide our children. These are our fucking kids for chrisssakes. When I pay my taxes I damn well want to know that that's going to support our schools and ensuring every student has the minimum necessary to thrive. I would say that includes food.
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Only in America do we allow children from poor and struggling families to go hungry. The land of billionaires can't (meaning won't) ensure everyone gets enough food to eat. It's really sickening how providing food to our children is considered an optional expense. Why is food in our culture considered luxury?? Something is very sick here. What do you want to bet that local county jail just got an upgrade and the local county Police department AKA the Blue Nazi department just got an upgrade and expansion and some REALLY nice sweet bonuses??? Because Lord knows, no matter who else goes hungry in this country it's never the Pigs. All of our Public schools should be providing breakfast and lunch to all students who want or need it. This should be commonly accepted practice. Not all students are fortunate enough to come from a home that's full of food. This is the intentional persecuting of people who are low-income because the lawmakers and policymakers at all levels of government in this country are sadists and amoral savage good-for-nothings. They intentionally don't want to pay people enough to live in a dignified manner but then they want to blame people for not being able to afford basic expenses. This kind of barbarism is getting tiresome. Why isn't food considered a required part of our children's education, one that the state has an obligation to provide??? No child who is innocent and who has no ability to change their circumstances in the K-12 system should ever be hungry. Local government has no problem shoveling billions at the Blue Nazis, but our kids, especially those kids from a lower-income neighborhoods? Oh they don't matter. Fuck them. It is socialist country this would never happen- this is NONSENSE. Let's think of all the millions of tons of food that goes to waste in this country annually in the fields, from grocery stores and other places where food is sold and prepared, and from people's homes. How about in every county, simply make a requirement that no store or any place that sells food is allowed to dispose of any unsold food unless it is visibly bad and any excess that doesn't get sold MUST be turned over to local food banks, who then can supply all local schools who ask for it with additional food supplies all year round?? A simple problem with a simple solution. These problems have simple solutions, it's just that local policymakers are monsters and sadists who wants other people to suffer so they can feel superior. It's disgusting and I am sick of it.
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@PaulRudd1941 brojim I'm way out here on the Left edge. Yeah I would help everyone if I could
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@PaulRudd1941 I don't get it. Why are you frustrated?
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@tauIrrydah I'm all for that I just see this quote everywhere when a related subject comes up. I mean ehhh it's fine just repetitive. I mean I can quote all day too, or I can share an actual reaction or thought I had.
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@Nan-59 absolutely all lunch and snacks on public school properties should be free. And why not send kids home with a free sack lunch?? If they don't want it they don't have to take it or they could save it for later. Hell for that matter why not offer hot breakfast for those who want it??? How do we know every child got to eat that morning? It's hard to learn if you're hungry. And why not have a garden at every middle school and elementary school? Some already do but this should certainly be a standard program. Can teach kids about food cultivation , healthy eating and give them a fun activity to do. I think making sure everybody gets enough to eat esp our youth is everyone's issue. Is FOOD a luxury?? I should hope not. For a small increase in cost we can have these feeding programs in every Public School and we should. We have more than enough food to go around I believe to feed twice the population of the US it's just not being properly managed.
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It all stems from politicians at every level of government in this country that want to enforce poverty. That's their agenda. That's what they want. They want helpless children and struggling families to suffer. That's who we elect generation after generation. It's worse in the GOP but both parties are two cheeks clapping the same asshole; there's not much difference between them. They're all sadists bc if they weren't this problem would be fixed overnight. Where there is political will the problem gets solved immediately, ever notice that?
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Yeah indeed. Well said. Real sad. Maybe it can end in our lifetime, who knows. Hope so.
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@eitkoml yes, but the democratic party is scarcely any better. They are mostly two sides of the same ass. Unfortunately there is no active viable competitive well-funded Left political party in this country that represents the interest of the bottom 80-99%. There could be, it would be called Leftists or Socialists or Communists or the People-first party, but there isn't one right now. Until that changes, until the common people get real representation in this country for the first time in at least 100 years, unfortunately these problems will keep resurfacing.
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@goazer2 well I disagree with you we can have free healthy school lunches for all children and we absolutely should because after all if we don't even believe children have a right to eat what kind of monsters are we??? It's called putting people before profit It all comes down to priorities. Also how do you fund Public services? There's a right way and a wrong way.
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@muttipi I think they'll get more educated in time but for right now for whatever reason they have a bias.
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@TurbopropPuppy I'd like to see that but in a world where everything costs money unfortunately that isn't going to be likely. But, that doesn't mean there aren't ways to improve. We just have to stop intentional and unnecessary waste. All hunger could be solved immediately by ensuring that all excess food in any area from farms to stores to eateries is donated back to the community. It should be mandatory. Simply let stores sell what they want but whatever's leftover has to first be made available to the employees, and whatever is excess from there simply needs to go to local food banks or other food centers. Simply put, until we make deliberate food waste from commercial sellers a crime punishable by steel fines, the appalling unnecessary waste of billions of tons of food a year in this country will only continue. This is unacceptable. And it goes without saying that any redistributed food is automatically not a liability for whoever provides it, not that you could trace it back. If Store X donates X amount of excess inventory to his local food bank it's not like the local citizens who come to pick up some of that food will know where it came from, unless there's a store label on the food somewhere. But for people who are paranoid and live in the world of extreme eventualities yes, any donated food is automatically indemnified from food poisoning claims. There- with this simple law there would be no further reason for stores to object to donating their unsold inventory. Now we just need to force the same law for unsold goods inventory. Just like we have food banks in every municipality, we should have overflow warehouses where excess goods are stored instead of sent to the landfill. This reduces landfill waste and helps redistribute useful goods to any who need or want them. From there other charities and community groups can come and take what they need. Intentional waste of useful surplus is so damn wrong. It's time there were laws about it.
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