Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks
Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks
Ah. Just like Jesus would do.
Well played Evangelists.
Easiest way to figure out what modern day "Christians" would do is to ask what Jesus would do, then go with the opposite.
Ask what the devil would do, then do that!
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I usually don't like tooting my own horn, but I'm speaking as someone with 18 years of experience in the financial aspects of school food service. I was one of those middle-management bean counters working for large districts around the Northeast. It is the job of people like me to not only research possible grants and funding sources and ensure the district is getting the maximum benefit, but also to ensure that those benefits are used to their fullest potential to deliver meals to students. We are used to having to deal with fluctuations in what funding we receive and are expected to be able to plan accordingly. If we of all people are the ones saying there's a problem, there's a fucking problem. Like 9.5 on the Richter scale type of problem.
There's a problem.
This will absolutely wreck school food service in many schools. Even before Trump ever set foot in the White House, school food service was often the red-headed stepchild of many school districts that operated on shoestring budgets and were almost always the first to get cuts whenever the school district needed to tighten its belt. These food aid programs in many districts were the only things keeping these programs anything resembling solvent in the first place. I cannot emphasize enough how reliant that our NSLP programs are on this funding.
At least right now, schools are still required to continue serving lunch under federal law. Of course, I'm sure that this will be rectified once Trump realizes that the NSLP exists and decides to cut that too because the program is using food grown in Canada to feed gay kids or something. What this is going to lead to is that NSLP programs are going to be cut to federally required minimums. And without these grants to pay for it, other school services will have to be cut. Teachers will have to be laid off. Other programs will have to be cut in order to pay for school food service. All of this and students will end up receiving less nutritious meals than they received before anyway. Again, that's until Trump realizes the program even exists and just shuts it down entirely.
You know how we occasionally see those articles about students carrying huge lunch debts at school? Think that, except worse. And everywhere.
"Huge lunch debts"??? WTF is this even? How does the US even function?
I mean, like this. This is pretty much where our "prosperity" comes from. We require everyone to be responsible for even the most basic of needs and in return we get to have crazy profit margins that disproportionately benefit the people that would still be embarrassingly rich if they paid for every kid to get a free school lunch.
How does the US even function?
Mostly by strip mining the rest of the planet for profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)
Usually Economic Shock Treatment was doled out by countries like the USA via their clandestine operations of the CIA with the intent to subjugate potential trade partners and force absurdly good deals for the USA. This kind of tomfoolery is part of what has allowed the US to retain such economic dominance without having to deeply improve conditions internally, because we just steal the wealth of the rest of the world while never actually fixing our own shitshow of a government.
Only recently has it become the norm for nations to self-impose this insanity on themselves, like Javier Milei in Argentina or Donald Trump in the USA... Doing it yourself... doesn't work very well...
With hopes and prayers.
You have no idea. The US is a complete capitalist dystopia. I finally realized this several months ago when I read news stories about "vanlords" renting broken down vans parked on the streets for people to live in, for hundreds of dollars a month.
The US functions?
It's so refreshing to see non Americans react the way we Americans should. Feeding children, just one meal a day, is too big of an ask for too many Americans and "Christian" posers. There is even the added selling point, kids learn better when they aren't fucking hungry. Don't we want our kids smart or at least be able to learn? American is a shameful cruel place
To add to your comment, coming from the Northwest, food service in schools struggles so hard that they sometimes accidentally create cultural icons. "Cheese Zombies" and tomato soup were a staple of my childhood, and many in Washington are familiar with them, because they became extremely popular with children. Many in California are familiar with a similar recipe of the same name. They both came from schools trying to work within the constraints of the food they had available to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_zombie
One type of cheese zombie was invented in Yakima, Washington, by employees of the Grandview School District in the early 1960s. The employees were under the direction of Dorothy L. Finch, the lunch program supervisor. Finch and her employees invented the cheese zombie while trying to come up with ways to use surplus Velveeta cheese. The Yakima cheese zombie consists of a layer of cheese baked between two layers of bread dough and then sliced into squares, giving them the appearance of sandwiches. The cheese zombie was so named because one of the cooks said the first batch looked like a zombie.
A similar dish with the same name was also invented in California around the same time by cooks at a California high school.
A second type of cheese zombie was invented in Concord, California, in 1963 by Decla Phillips and Helen Ballock, bakers employed at Mount Diablo High School. The Concord cheese zombie was also created by layering cheese, in this case American cheese, between two layers of bread dough. A key difference between the Concord and Yakima cheese zombies is that the Concord version is cut into circles and crimped with a special tool before baking, which helps to contain the cheese within the bun. The pair were possibly inspired by Ballock's husband's recipe for Pirozhki.
Also, thank you for your service to children by working hard to make the budgets work for food services in schools.
I'm sure that this will be rectified once Trump realizes that the NSLP exists and decides to cut that too because the program is using food grown in Canada to feed gay kids
Trump: And people are saying, many people, they’re saying that Canada was inserting food into the schools, and come to find out that the kids started turning gay, beautiful healthy kids, and the liberal radical school teachers weren’t warning the kids parents that their innocent children were confused, girls little girls wanting to chop off their breasts, it’s horrible, horrible I tell you. Canada is sending fentanyl into our country, they’re overdosing pesticides in their foods and giving it away to our schools. We’re going to make American farms great again, and my Executive Order requires all public state run schools to purchase solely fresh pesticide free organic food, fresh not that frozen crap, for our school kids!
Trans people exist.
GOP: We need to save the children from woke brainwashing!
Children go hungry during school.
GOP: Have you tried getting a job you little freeloaders?
Donald: some of you may die. But that is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
How long will we let this factual supervillain trounce our lives and lives all over the world?
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
He called it.
What did people do to get Frankenstein's monster out of that tower in the old movies? It's on it tip of my tongue...
Can’t let the kids have nutritious meals! Next thing you know they’ll grow healthy brains and might end up thinking for themselves instead of being slaves to their masters! Nope, nope, can’t have that.
Those kids need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
Also, anyone else remember when Michelle Obama was being accused of all kinds of things when she was suggesting kids eat healthy meals and exercise?
Oh good please give all the food to the starving billionaires.
I fucking wish he'd freeze it, probably going to rot away in some warehouse as well.
"Let them eat plastic straws!"
"Very tasty, very nutritious! High in fiber, especially the paper wrapper. It's the best food!"
These kids need to go into debt and buy their food from Cargill as God intended.
Bigliest. President. Ever.
