Dollars Over Decency: School Kids Without Money Have Lunch Taken Away And Thrown Out
Conservatives and liberals have two distinct views of the world. In one, no child ever goes hungry regardless of whether or not they can pay for food. In the other, you have this:
ATTLEBORO — As many as 25 students at Coelho Middle School were denied meals or told to throw their lunches away Tuesday because they could not pay or their pre-paid accounts did not contain enough money, school officials said today.
Parents said some of the children cried after they were not allowed to eat or had to toss out their lunches.
School officials said an on-site employee from Whitson’s, the school system’s school lunch provider, apparently gave the order not to extend meals to students who could not pay or whose credit was already overextended. SOURCE
Imagine, for a second, the mindset required to force hungry children to throw food in the garbage? It’s not like the food was given to a child that could pay, it was just wasted. It’s the ultimate in conservative thought: I will gain nothing from this but the satisfaction of knowing you did not get a free meal
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/05/dollars-over-decency-school-kids-without-money-have-lunch-taken-away-and-thrown-out/
Once a profit motive is introduced, it ceases to be about fulfilling a public need, now it becomes about making a profit by any means necessary.
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Not someone who is human, that's for sure.
