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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is that this food needs to be cheap for the FARMS so yes we all suffer.[/quote]

+1, public schools have turned into subsidized daycare[/quote]

Maybe if we as a people/our government supported children in more substantial ways, schools would not need to step in and play these various roles in addition to the educational one they were set up for.

Federally, we spend $7 on programs for elderly people for every $1 spent on programs for children. (That disparity is boggling, at least to me.)  The result of that has been an incredible reduction in the number of older people living in poverty since the 1970s — but 21 percent of the children in the United States live in families with incomes below the poverty level, the highest percentage since 1993 and the highest numbers (about 16.4 million) since 1962.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2009/11/05%20spending%20children%20isaacs/1_how_much_isaacs.pdf[/quote]

Why is it the government's job to do that.[/quote]

All civilized governments in highly-developed nations have programs to care for their most vulnerable citizens - every last one of them.  I defy you to name ONE country in the developed world that does not do this.  Or do you prefer that the U.S. align its policies with those of e.g. Somalia?

Why on earth *isn't* it the government's job to see that its youngest, poorest citizens are adequately nourished, housed, cared for?

Or are you Mittens Romney, looking to weed out the weakest members of the 47%[/quote]

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