Quote (Plaguefear @ Mar 16 2023 10:42pm)

I think it depends on why you are able to not work, i have enough money to follow my passions and it is all passive and requires no hands on management, i do not need to worry about anything but dopamine hits, and i get more of that from hooking a huge fish on a lure than doing any recreational pharma.
It depends on your outlook on life, an idle introvert can have all the money in the world and will probably just expand their man cave and order a lot more take out until they eventually fill out the entire space they inhabit.

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 18 2023 06:37am)

Guess which of those governors is taking money away from poor children and giving it to rich children who don't need it?


I'll give you a hint: Minnesota already had a free lunch program for low income families, with generously high cutoff. Now the pool of resources is going to be split across all children, you know, the ones whos parents drive a Lexus and own a yacht. So governor Walz gets to have a big photo op surrounded by children (one conspicuously wearing an Apple Watch), and the liberal media and social media will fawn all over him because of the superficial optics. Meanwhile, the kids who have to go to school in north minneapolis where gun and drug crime is rampant and multiple students get killed per year, are going to have their resources stripped away as soon as this surplus turns into a deficit. All so we can feed those kids from Eden Prairie and Wayzata.

That's the thing about "free breakfast and lunch", TINSTAAFL. Walz's cronies over at 'Feeding Our Future' were supposed to provide 'free lunches' too, and they served as many needy children as this bill will

Quote (fender @ Mar 18 2023 09:12pm)

Quote (addone @ Mar 19 2023 05:59am)

Can you guess which kids later in life will end up taking off clothes for a living and which will be running food companies that feed the masses?

Quote (JohnnyMcCoy @ 18 Mar 2023 12:47)

so kids can decide to mutilate themselves to change their gender, but they cant work? ^_^

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 18 2023 06:37am)

Guess which of those governors is taking money away from poor children and giving it to rich children who don't need it?


I'll give you a hint: Minnesota already had a free lunch program for low income families, with generously high cutoff. Now the pool of resources is going to be split across all children, you know, the ones whos parents drive a Lexus and own a yacht. So governor Walz gets to have a big photo op surrounded by children (one conspicuously wearing an Apple Watch), and the liberal media and social media will fawn all over him because of the superficial optics. Meanwhile, the kids who have to go to school in north minneapolis where gun and drug crime is rampant and multiple students get killed per year, are going to have their resources stripped away as soon as this surplus turns into a deficit. All so we can feed those kids from Eden Prairie and Wayzata.

That's the thing about "free breakfast and lunch", TINSTAAFL. Walz's cronies over at 'Feeding Our Future' were supposed to provide 'free lunches' too, and they served as many needy children as this bill will

Quote (Surfpunk @ Mar 21 2023 01:39pm)

If poor families are already covered, then why does school lunch debt exist in MN? The Mankato district alone has over $80,000 in lunch debt so far this school year.

Imagine crying because children get to eat.

Quote (Goomshill @ 21 Mar 2023 23:44)

Same reason credit card debt exists among people who aren't in poverty.
People can refuse to pay for things they can afford

For a household of size 4, meals were free up to $36k income and subsidized up to 51k income. Thresholds based on size 1-8 of 17-60k for free and 25-86k for subsidized.
They were also automatically qualified for free lunches if they were on SNAP, MFIP, the indian reservation, and all foster children.

Quote (fender @ Mar 21 2023 06:30pm)

so the appropriate punishment is letting kids go hungry? gotcha.


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