How come prison inmates get free food but school kids don't?

[Waffles731]

I have to be completely and utterly honest, I never thought of that till I saw that meme

[I-am-a-nobody]

Not any firsthand knowledge mind you, but I believe oftentimes inmates pay for food. They might have to pay for soap and toothpaste, etc., too.
I thought kids had the school lunch program.
Personally, I don't want to pay for either one with my tax dollars.
Prisoners should work for their food. If that means peddling on a stationary bike to generate electricity, so be it.
For the hideous results we're getting for over $10000 per student in the U. S., we should consider closing down a whole lot of schools.

My wife once worked distributing food for a summer lunch program. A large number of the PB and J sandwiches that were distributed at a housing project ended up in the trash.

[tamont3]

There aren't a whole lot of deterrents to crime in the U. S. brotha...

[Valkyrie1]

Yeah! Even the company that my school bought the lunches from was even the same company that sell food to the prison. 😑

[Kitten967]

Where I live some kids do get free school meals but the parents have to be on certain benefits

[carolann1920]

Because if prisoners are not given free food they would eat the prison guards

[Máiiréad]

but seriously
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[Iraqveteran666]

Because school kids have parents. See all these extras have to be paid for somewhere. Just look at college I'm sure if they dropped half of the sjw bullshit and concentrated just on academia the could half tuition fees.
I wouldn't allow my kids to eat school dinners even if it was free, In fact I wouldn’t eat that shit myself for free. If they could make school dinners more like this that'd be great.

https://youtu.be/6Yus3KyEQWE

[Waffles731]

Maybe if republicans put money into education instead of constantly trying to slash every budget but the military it might be more like that

[Iraqveteran666]

Maybe if democrats investigated what the extra money was being spent on after 8 years the education system would be in better shape.

[Waffles731]

What extra money?
We've had nothing but budget cuts for the last 16 years

[Iraqveteran666]

Obama really dropped the ball on education is what you are saying?

[Waffles731]

We've dropped the ball for the last 16 years, and yeah, I'm not a fan of Obama continuing bushes fall down the rabbit hole. For a lot of things he's done well, but he screwed the pooch like bush on education and common core does suck

[Iraqveteran666]

You've openly criticised Obama, not sure where I can go now lol

[Waffles731]

'You've openly criticised Obama, not sure where I can go now lol'
I've also praised george bush for the fact that despite being incredibly stupid, he did at least try to do good, he was just too stupid not to be manipulated by Dick no soul cheney.

[Iraqveteran666]

So you did. You must be feeling the Trump.

[Waffles731]

Not at all.
Even if I hate someone I'll give credit where credits due, ALA Richard Nixon who ruined an otherwise great presidency with being horrifically corrupt

[Waffles731]

I don't like him, if he does good, I'll give it to him but he hasn't at least from what I've seen.

[Iraqveteran666]

I suppose and LBJ for some of the civil rights acts but at the same time he was a racist and sexually harassed people. Oh and Vietnam

[Waffles731]

' LBJ for some of the civil rights acts but at the same time he was a racist and sexually harassed people. '
It goes way beyond sexually harrassing people, (at least JFK was a non racist who had an open marriage) but LBJ liked to bring out his Johnson, which he called jumbo, he was once asked by a reporter why we were in vietnam and he whipped out jumbo and told the guy flat out, 'this is why'

[Iraqveteran666]

I know about jumbo lol. Kennedy's marraige was only open one way I think and being a Kennedy and being JFK meant that he could walk up to women and grab them by the pussy.

[Waffles731]

I've heard it was two way open

[Iraqveteran666]

Who did Jackie screw?

[I-am-a-nobody]

If money were the issue, the US would be in the top five in education. As it is, they are maybe 30th or so. What we need is better choices. The failed "warehouse kids" model isn't working.

[Waffles731]

My understanding, anyone she wanted

[Waffles731]

I've heard a few white house guests and a few of JFK's friends

[Iraqveteran666]

I heard Bobby Kennedy.
@I-am-a-nobody we need to look at schooling where it does work like in Europe but thats to radical and both parties just want to pay lip service to education and throw money so as to be seen to be doing something.

[I-am-a-nobody]

I say give people a choice. If that means a for profit charter school or private school voucher or home school or distance learning or whatever, then so be it. Public schools have (for the most part) failed. I have two boys. Their education in a public school K through 12 would cost over a quarter million dollars. Do you realize what I could do for them with a quarter million?

Khan academy is probably better than 98% of the schools out there.

[Iraqveteran666]

@I-am-a-nobody I agree.

[wankiam]

inmates are the responsibility of the state whilst kids are the responsibility of the two people who didn't use contraception. if there is a real need in the uk through poverty however the taxpayers do pick up the bill so kids get at least one healthy meal a day

[TripleAce]

Free shitty food that is... and usually a guy name 'tiny' steals your cupcake and porc chop

They get free shitty food because they are at the bottom of the bottom and it's simply meant to keep them alive to suffer

[SneakySnickerdoodle]

That's not the case. None of it is free. It all ultimately comes from the workers. Either indirectly through taxes or directly by giving their kids money. But I feel you. Food, water, shelter, clothes, and healthcare should be basic human rights.

[I-am-a-nobody]

You have a right to all of those things. You just have to pay for it.

[SneakySnickerdoodle]

I think that's a horrible idea. By that logic poor people deserve to die off.

[I-am-a-nobody]

By your logic, someone who refuses to work should get " Food, water, shelter, clothes, and healthcare".
Should we wipe their butts, too, if they are too lazy? Or is a clean butt not a right, unlike all the others? I don't see people starving in America or "dying off", but I do see many who need to take responsibility for their own lives. We have what... 45 to 50 million on nutritional assistance at a cost of over $100 billion. And I'd bet a large portion of them are obese!
(But of course, their free healthcare can help them deal with the problems brought on by obesity.) We are honestly doing more harm than good for the people were "helping".
We should be ashamed.

[SneakySnickerdoodle]

That's a strawman argument.

[I-am-a-nobody]

Well that's one expensive strawman the U. S. is feeding to the tune of $100 billion.
Oh and housing is another $50 billion or so. Add in "disability" for people whose only disability is their unwillingness to work and you're close to eliminating the deficit.
And trust me, I'm all for cutting the defense budget, too, but first things first.

I'd rather (and I do) help the disadvantaged in ways other than handing them money to sit on their butts.
If you want to help with your own money, have at it, just don't take mine for your harmful, conscience soothing little pet projects.
Thank you.

[SneakySnickerdoodle]

LOL. Okay. 👍

[llorando]

Because having the highest prison population is more important than having the highest educated population, so prisons gets more funding than schools. Also kids can bring their own food to school where inmates can't bring their own food to prison.

[Laa7430]

School kids have freedom to ask, buy, beg, even steal Food. Inmates are locked up and not feeding them food be the same us killing all prisoners -thatd b just like the olden days ay . U commit a crime - U die ! ( ov starvation)

[jp612612]

I don't know... I prefer knowing what I'm feeding my daughters and as such, I greatly prefer sending them to school with lunches that I pack.

[Anonymous]

Because nurturing our prison population is apparently more important than educating our children.

[WaterRat]

Prisoners work. They do laundry, clean floors, etc. I see them outdoors too, gathering litter or something. They get to study too but not leave the facility.

[catelyntje]

lol because inmates can't go anywhere else but school kids go home

[LoloWaye]

It's a fucked up world.

I've wondered that myself. Especially when the food is good

[LoloWaye]

*isn't

[RegularTK421]

Free doesn't mean good. Inmates usually remain hungry 24/7, they get the smallest portions, and an average prison meal costs under 1.54. Just because kids pay for their meals, doesn't mean they don't have it better.

[helloitsmethere]

Umm... yes we do?
There is a free lunch program at my school.

[Soteris]

Why the fuck do you want another reason for inmates to not be inmates anymore? Also schools should have free food.

[Unit1]

That's the way our "fantastic" government works. Problematic, I know.

[Blueeyes81]

I was poor growing up and as such qualified for free lunches.

[Anonymous]

What school did you go to?

Mine was free as it gets.

[Anonymous]

If their parents are poor they're given money and or food stamps.

[HappypersonT]

You do if you're poor

[mooky06]

So true. A mind blowing question