Students with no lunch credit told to throw lunches away>>MOD WARNING<<

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  1. wyly

    wyly Well-Known Member

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    it's a cliché, a fantasy... it's the capitalist mentality as it worshiped in the usa is a Frankenstein creation, it's become a mean spirited twisted antisocial mental disorder...

    social empathy is man's natural state...a healthy society looks after it's weakest members it's the reason we as a specie survived the hostile jungles, savannahs and tundra surrounded by predators...without each other to rely on we can't survive...
     
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    Gee... then talk to Denmark and ask them how come their "Socialist" system is sustaining itself.

    While you're at it, ask Germany how it's able to prop-up the rest of the EU when it didn't export its manufacturing sector to the third-world.

    American MBAs and shareholders will say they had to demolish the American industrial base by sending all the jobs to China in order to stay competative, because American workers wanted to be paid enough to live on, yet Germany has maintained its own industrial base while paying its workers enough to live on, and is doing well enough that's it can afford to be one of the have-nations subsidizing the EU.

    In any case, it still sounds to me like the school's cafeteria was outsourced to a private-caterer, and that's why the harsh treatment for the parents being behind on lunch-payments.
     
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    They don't get how we wouldn't have evolved language if we already hadn't already been such a darn sociable species that language would help... you don't evolve language and then decide to be socialble after the fact.
     
  4. RP12

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    Please show how that profit company had their employees give kids food and then take it away
     
  5. wyly

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    that is true...another part of our social empathy is how we protected each other from physical harm...if those social traits are bad why do we bother with the military and police? why not everyone look after their own safety? why isn't that considered reprehensible socialism? ...so it's okay to spend billions to protect ourselves from physical harm because that's good capitalism but don't feed the children of the poor because that's socialism damn it? in what sane world does make sense...

    then there was the other social evil how we care cared for our injured, our ancestors didn't leave their injured or sick behind to die or be eaten...the entire group cared for them, and if they had dependent children they were cared for as well, now in some people's minds we have now regressed to such a sad state that capitalist clichés govern the natural order of things... The economic theory that &#8220;there&#8217;s no such thing as a free lunch...what a pitiful mean society we've become...
     
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    Nice attempt at a deflection.
     
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    Questerr Banned

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    The article in the OP says that the company did it.
     
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    Company employees. I asked another poster to link the mandate from the company to do this. Anything from the company that suggested this was normal procedure. Anything really and got nothing back perhaps you know something he doesnt?
     
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    I didn't see anywhere in the article where a parent couldn't pay for the lunches. They said they were unaware of the credit issue. Partisans like you need to make a political issue out of everything.
     
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    That's strange. Whenever government workers are involved in wrongdoing, the Rightwing is quick to say "the government did X". But when employees for a private company do something, you're quick to say "employees did this. Where is your evidence that it was an official policy?"

    I wonder where the hypocrisy comes from?
     
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    Answer the question.. WHAT POLICY WERE THEY FOLLOWING. What is it with progressives and dodging questions they dont like and then doing nothing but deflecting.
     
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    By those articles it seems that those employees acted outside of company policies and it was not the actions of one of those evil profit companies. Go fig.
     
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    Absolutely! This is such a cold-blooded attitude towards kids who are dependent upon adults for food, have no control over their accounts, not to mention the fact that we teach kids to show kindness and generosity towards others - well, some of us anyway - then they go to school and are told to throw their needed lunch in the trash b/c not enuf or no $ in their account......

    What the hell ever happened to HUMAN DECENCY?:evil:
     
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    then explain why the company is doing some serious ass-kissing. lol
    http://www.foodservicedirector.com/operations/articles/denying-kids-lunch-not-cool-whitsons-says
    To Whitsons&#8217; credit, not only did it act quickly to correct the situation, it also worked some PR magic by offering all students free meals for several days the following week after the incident. It also planned to host a goodwill cookout to which students and their parents would be invited.
     
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    You just directly contradicted yourself within 2 minutes. Congratulations. You get to call yourself an accomplished liberal now.
     
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    ROTFLMAO....Thanks for playing such a laughably poor game.

    BTW, here's a tidbit from that bastion of righteous right-wingery, Utah.

    http://www.boston.com/news/educatio...ent-lunches/mveKhTs5VfJZywmVpBMQnJ/story.html
     
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    Because of the pissed off parents. Employees (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up and now they need to fix their image.
     
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    How nice to see you back.:)
     
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    district official arrived at Uintah (Yoo-IN-tah) Elementary to investigate a large number of overdue lunch accounts, Olsen has said.

    The school is located in a middle-class neighborhood, and the district qualifies for federal reimbursement on lunches when students select certain offerings that are within nutritional guidelines.

    Ahem...
     
  22. justonemorevoice

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    nah, i dont think so. im going to wait and see if the fired employees come forward before i call them names, unlike some of the posters here. *ahumm*

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    hiya joe! youre still one of my fave pf members!:clapping:
     
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    Saying they (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up is calling them names now? Commenting on peoples actions are now insults? Nice spin on this. Your own article shows that they acted outside of company policy but yet you are still trying to spin this that its the companies fault because they are trying to repair their image????
     
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    Why do they have to be following an official policy? Government workers don't have to be following an official policy (in fact they can be inviolation of one) and the governmet still gets blamed by the right.
     
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    There are approximately 61,000,000 children between the ages of 0 - 14 in the U.S.

    Say this particular school lunch cost $2.50 that was not covered by the Government's "welfare" low income school lunch programs. A company bought the food, prepared it, etc...it's out of their pocket.

    61,000,000 X $2.50 = $152,500,000

    Yes that's $152.5 million to serve every child between 0-14 just ONE meal...just ONE lunch.

    If indeed it was ALL free...every day...to every child...the total will reach the BILLIONS of dollars very quickly.
    Just for lunch. Nevermind the actual public education they are getting on the taxpayer's dime.

    Somebody is out of pocket the money it costs to feed these children...whether it's you and I as taxpayers the government garnishes from our wages, or a company that buys and prepares the food but is not reimbursed.

    Once some of you get out of "fantasy" land where money drops from trees...perhaps America can have a realistic discussion of the legacy of debt these very same children are inheriting...every minute of every day...America spends more than it has...every minute of every day, the debt burden on these children grows.
     

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