Wisconsin Republicans cannot let this teachable moment courtesy of educators slip unexploited past the party's opportunistic best pundits and policy-makers.
I mean, this could be the GOP's most powerful and expanded contribution to education in Wisconsin since Act. 10.
And, finally, the party can get busy implementing that old adage that used to mean something: "There's no free lunch," so good on you, Waukesha school board.
The GOP has long been making the poor, disadvantaged and plain unlucky among us work for their calories and survival - going back to Walker's first budget and straight through to the former guy's Presidency - so this is the chance for Wisconsin's most successful publicity-seeking school board -
Waukesha The Only Wisconsin School District To Deny Free Meals For All Students
- where state Republicans get their biggest pile of in-votes to grab ahold of this ideology-first teachable moment and put some real shine on that apple a day -
- by telling the kids:
'You want some of that good government surplus to fuel your food addiction? Get out on the playground and parking lot, pick up some trash, and earn you way to the cafeteria line.'
Besides, free food courtesy as taxpayer-paid perk is a privilege controlled by top GOP power-brokers, so listen up, you little ingrates: who do you think you are, state legislators?
So respect yer elders and get to work, food addicts. I think I see some garbage near the board members' parking spaces.
ReplyDeleteWhat in God's name is WRONG with these people?!?! Can't help wondering if any of the school board members attend one of the evangelical mega-churches in the area.
I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.
—Matthew 25:35 (NIV)
Give us today our daily bread. —Matthew 6:11 (NIV)
And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. —Isaiah 58:10 (NIV)
Jesus was a socialist!
When I grew up out in the country many years ago the common refrain was that "those people" in the city were too lazy to work, used their welfare money to buy big fancy cars, eat steak and lobster and had 10 kids running around that we all had to feed etc. They were absolutely serious in this and Ronnie Raygun fed and confirmed this nonsense for them. They believe these stories to this day and still repeat them. The guys like Vindictive Voss and Taconite Tiffany are the keepers of the flame for that kind of hatred and bigotry.
ReplyDeleteWalker, especially. https://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2018/04/walker-and-other-masters-of-dog-whistle.html
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ReplyDeleteQuoting below from Charlie Pierce:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a37417182/wisconsin-school-board-free-lunches-pandemic/
Spoiled, on one free meal a day?
Addicted, on some free mac-and-cheese?
Who thinks like this?
No, don’t answer that. I’ve heard it all before. It was the central article of faith for Reaganites, for Paul Ryan, and for every conservative skinflint back to Andrew Mellon. It’s the philosophy that kept the Heritage Society alive long enough to start ratfcking the federal courts and national elections. It’s what made Ebenezer Scrooge inquire about the state of the prisons and workhouses. It’s what made two million Irishmen leave their home country behind between 1845 and 1849. It’s a song that never dies. Cruelty always has been the point.
ReplyDeleteSome good news according to Milw Journal Sentinel - "Board members voted 5-4 to rescind their previous decision, and opt to participate this school year in the federally funded program that has already been providing free breakfast and lunch to all students in response to the pandemic."
Eyeroll Quote and link:
"It's time for parents and community members to start paying attention to the forces at work here," board member Kelly Piacsek said. "When the federal government is responsible for feeding all students at all times regardless of need, they have ultimate authority and we don’t need local school boards anymore.”
Piacsek, who was interrupted by applause as she spoke, said it wasn't "about food anymore," but about national influences on local school boards. She likened the debate to those about structural racism and COVID precautions.
"This is how we got CRT and filthy books and vaccine and mask mandates, all this stuff," she said, referring to critical race theory.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/08/30/waukesha-school-board-reverses-decision-cut-universal-free-meals/5659409001/