Thursday, January 30, 2014
"Please, Sir, I want some more."
This will gladden the hearts of every TeaPublican/Libertarian who reads it.
Damned little TAKERS!
Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementaryEducation »
School officials cite unpaid balances on students’ meal accounts.
By Lisa Schencker |
The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published Jan 29 2014 05:29 pm •
Last Updated Jan 29 2014 11:06 pm
Up to 40 kids at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City picked up their lunches Tuesday, then watched as the meals were taken and thrown away because of outstanding balances on their accounts — a move that shocked and angered parents.
"It was pretty traumatic and humiliating," said Erica Lukes, whose 11-year-old daughter had her cafeteria lunch taken from her as she stood in line Tuesday at Uintah Elementary School, 1571 E. 1300 South.
Lukes said as far as she knew, she was all paid up. "I think it’s despicable," she said. "These are young children that shouldn’t be punished or humiliated for something the parents obviously need to clear up."
Jason Olsen, a Salt Lake City District spokesman, said the district’s child-nutrition department became aware that Uintah had a large number of students who owed money for lunches.
As a result, the child-nutrition manager visited the school and decided to withhold lunches to deal with the issue, he said. But cafeteria workers weren’t able to see which children owed money until they had already received lunches, Olsen explained.
The workers then took those lunches from the students and threw them away, he said, because once food is served to one student it can’t be served to another.
This happened. Just yesterday. In America.
Finally, the Libertarian/Conservative dream comes to fruition.
Can someone tell me what the hell has happened to our nation that made the adults in that school feel comfortable to do this to those children?
We have lost our way.
When multi-millionaire politicians like Mitt Romney and others of his kind tell the American people over and over and over again that half of us are "takers," and just want "free stuff," this is what happens.
Unthinking morons, like the people in that Utah school, instead of using their heads, humiliated and abused innocent victims because their political heroes have taught them that the poor are undeserving moochers, and that their children should be shamed for having been born into poverty.
Their "Jesus" must be so proud of them all.
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Who says there isn't serious learning going on in public schools.
Here's a lesson they will not forget.
Is it too much to ask people to use common sense, which would mean not blaming children for their parents deliquency? Is that too hard for those people to get through their stupid heads?
Are you expecting the good taxpayers of Salt Lake City to pick up the cost of feeding hungry children who don't pay for their meals?
What are you, shaw,?
A COM-YOU-NIST?
Those kids could have worked the debt off in the salt mines, couldn't they? Or maybe make them into little Gingrich janitors.
Damn takers indeed!
This gets even more disgusting. Apparently the parents either were not informed of the debit or weren't given time to respond.
"The district said in its statement that school officials started calling parents about negative balances Monday. The calls continued Tuesday, the day school workers took lunches back from students."
This one is getting a lot of coverage and I suspect there will be apologies. Not that it will do much for the kids who were humiliated.
Meanwhile the hits just keep on coming on the right:
Michele "The Human Twilight Zone Music" Bachmann has threatened to sue Obama over the SOTU address.
Michael Grimm (R - Button man) threatens to throw a reporter of a balcony after being asked about a criminal investigation involving Grimm.
You should read that guy's Wiki entry. Clearly unstable.
'and threw them away,'
AW,stuff.... sounds like the deal from the old days in Nam...'we saved that village from the Communists by burning it down'
The reason this will get a lot of coverage is because it exposes the heart of the GOP/Libertarian philosophy [and has absolutely NOTHING to do with true Christianity].
Here we had adults humiliating children
taking food out of the mouths of children,
throwing food in the trash, rather than using it to feed children
because of unpaid debts?
"Are there not workhouses? Are there no prisons?" --E. Scrooge
This incident, to me, sums up the GOP and Libertarians' "I've got mine, and too bad for the rest of you, you lazy moochers!"
Excerpt from a ThinkProgress article on this issue.
"But depriving children of food — and embarrassing them in front of their peers — isn’t the only option. In Boston, for example, public schools provide all students with cost-free breakfast and lunch no matter their financial situation."
Utah leads the US in birth rate and is 61% Mormon. Odd, then that
"And also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish."
-Book Of Mormon, Mosiah 4:16-20
..am still looking for the chapter on taking food from schoolchildren and throwing it away.
Ducky, yes, I knew that about Boston. Maybe that's one of the reasons Massachusetts is considered on of the best states to live in [it's in the top 5] from a recent study reported in Politico, which will be posted later in the week or weekend.
BB-Idaho, we don't need a particular religion to tell adults that they should protect children. The adults who participated in shamming those kids seem to be missing a basic human instinct.
I shudder to think how they treat their own children, if they have any.
okjimm, this story is so bad, I thought at first that it was totally made up. Because who would believe any adult behaving so monstrously toward children? I mean we're not living in 19th century London!
Cheeeeez, "stupid" is too kind a word for the adults who did this.
Anonymous, A COM-YOU-NIST? Moi? WWJD?
Outstanding red state family values:
"Still, the incident raises longstanding questions about child nutrition and low-income families. It is not the first time that students have had their lunch thrown out for insufficient funds. In November, a Texas middle school student’s lunch was thrown away because he was 30 cents short on payment."
Everything we suspected about these people is true. They really DO hate the poor, and their children.
“But I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking. If all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed, and why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of what pro-life is.”
It explains why I get a bit testy at times. Sometimes "bottle rockets, grenades, and bazookas" is the only language understood by these miserable excuses for human beings.
"Finally, the Libertarian/Conservative dream comes to fruition."
Talk about stereotyping an entire group of individuals. Pathetic.
I am a libertarian and my position is the jackass responsible for this idiotic decision should be fired.
Simple solution... Contact the delinquent parents and work out a method in which they bring their account current over an agreed upon period of time.
So, now it is my turn to be offended. I've just been lumped with an idiotic jackass just because I have conservative libertarian leanings on issues that makes sense to me.
Oh well, shit happens and it is what it is.
"Liberals favor government action to promote equality, whereas conservatives favor government action to promote order. Libertarians favor freedom and oppose government action to promote either equality or order."
According to What It Means to Be a Libertarian by Charles Murray, Broadway Books, 1997.
The Boston public schools give free lunches to all children regardless of their financial need. That's government promoting equality, which, according to Charles Murray, who wrote that definition of libertarianism, is anathema to a libertarian's beliefs. They do not believe governments should be in the business of promoting equality.
So my observation is according to Murray's definition of libertarianism, which may not be yours.
And we certainly know that conservatives hate the idea of government giving the underclasses "free stuff." We heard the guy whom the GOP ordained as the one they wanted to be president say that much when he stated that 47% of the American voters won't vote for him because they want "free stuff."
I stand by what I wrote because I've presented evidence for it.
O-key Doe-key.
I believe everything my mom ever told me. About Libertarians, she said they were like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.
Here's further evidence of that from a former Libertarian.
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/28/why_i_fled_libertarianism_and_became_a_liberal/
"Their Jesus" doesn't have much in common with the one depicted in the Bible. The one whose demonstrated values are pretty much the opposite of Pat Robertson's demonstrated values.
Shaw Kenawe: I stand by what I wrote because I've presented evidence for it.
Say that on another blog and the proprietor will call you an idiot. No, wait, he already did.
I am, for the record, in agreement that the evidence substantiates the claim. This is what Conservative/Libertarian thinking gets you. SOME of that persuasion may say they'd do things differently, but I seriously doubt you could find one Democrat/Progressive who'd act in this manner. It's anathema to our core beliefs.
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