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Turning Down Food Aid for Millions of Children Reflects Shocking Political Callousness
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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if it is a federally-funded program why is it allowed to be state's rights issue?
we need a president that supports federal over state's rights
What would a federal school meal program that operates without the support of the state/local government look like? If schools were federally run then that would be one thing, but they are not.
(I’m really sick of people making absolutely horrible things done by the GOP into a criticism of Biden/Democrats for not doing something extraordinary or impossible to keep it from happening. Especially when the GOP deliberately and cynically does the horrible thing to harm the Democrats’ election chances.)
forgot to add only republicans bad you have to vote democrat and everyone has the right to vote here so it is the people not voting and voting republican ruining the country not the corporate owned politicians
pardon me
You forgot to answer my question actually.
criticizing both corporate parties in my comment
we already pay taxes as citizens and businesses pay too it should go somewhere not just to our neighboring states because the citizens unfortunately lost the geographic lottery or not allowed to vote or whatever in the state they are in
it would look like less funding for the military industrial complex and more school funding for nutrition and education
making everything into a state by state geographic lottery game is too hunger games to accept
states should have to comply with federal law and programs especially when it comes to our future as a nation
biden campaigned on such promises with making the police a federal thing not a state by state wild wild west do whatever unless you are in that other state kind of thing
it would look like our taxes went somewhere and we could see the results
the federal government passes something to do with funding vital human services and states should have to comply
should the states not have to do anything the government decides on?
and without state support? the citizens do not support eating food?
you are confusing government and citizens
I get that you don’t think things should be this way. But you’re singling out Biden for criticism. All I am asking you is just some hypothetical course of action that the president could have been doing to make the school lunch thing happen in this situation.
The law was created by Congress (not the president) and it’s set up as a federally funded, state-administered program. Without some sort of explanation for how Biden should have solved this problem, I have to assume that you are speaking out of ignorance of how our government works. And the thing that frustrates me is that the GOP did this cynical move knowing that people like you will just put the blame on the president. They get what they want from their evil, bullshit political stunts.
And meanwhile, you direct your anger and energy in the wrong place, so that even if you got what you want — a president you think is awesome — you’d find that the problems aren’t solved at all because the government is so much more than the president.
Could you imagine the uproar if the federal government forced these states to participate in programs like this? Having them volunteer seems better in the long run. I mean, if a place like Ohio feels that strongly about not taking money from the government, why stop them? Speaking as someone who lives there, it's on us to vote out the people too stupid/stubborn to take free money.