SmarterThanTheAverageBear
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Do you think school lunches looked more like the Sidwell school lunches before Obama became President?
If the pictures are correct then yes, only by degree.
Do you think what they are serving our children now is appealing? If the pictures are true.
"If the pictures are true" is not relevant. Those few pictures may be "true," but not representative of all school lunches. Lunches, which, by the way, are not prepared by the First Lady. What she did was help establish nutritional guidelines. I'm betting the Sidwell lunches are hitting those nutritional guidelines, but only by using really fresh, really quality, really expensive ingredients.
Public schools are trying to hit those guidelines on a budget, with people of greater and lesser talent in food preparation. Some of them don't know how to cook healthier food.
That said, even with more lax nutritional guidelines, the school lunches I ate as a kid didn't look that different from a lot of the photos shown.
Keep in mind that conservatives don't want poor kids to even get a lunch, PERIOD, unless the parents, somehow, pay for it.
Ummm kids who get free lunches at school are no doubt eating food paid for with SNAP at home.
No one has suggested anyone should go without lunch you idiot.
Seeing as how receipt of SNAP benefits is a requirement for the free lunches, I would agree. Those who receive reduced price lunches are income based.
However, in the current year's budget SNAP benefits were cut and the current proposal included $135 billion in cuts to SNAP that were fortunately removed; so the claim that Republicans don't want poor children (the largest recipients of SNAP benefits (see link) to eat.
And, remember, there have been Republican proposals out there to force the children to clean the schools in return for their free lunches, such as those made by and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (links provided). Boy, they sure to put some dumb in the scotch those Georgian republicans drink!
Of course there are scum out there who happen to be Republicans. Same as there is scum out there that happens to be Democrats.
I agree, many conservatives think being conservative means being an asshole to the poor. Just like many liberals think being a liberal means robbing the rich.