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She says it costs $2.2 million to feed them kids, with the federal government covering the other $2.2 million.
Let's set aside that Iowa has an FY24 spending budget of $8.5 billion, out of which $2.2 million is basically nothing....
Rather, let's make this a 🅲🆄🅻🆃🆄🆁🅴 🆆🅰🆁 🅸🆂🆂🆄🅴! Parental rights, right? That thing where parents can uncritically direct "the care, custody, and control of their minor children." It sanctifies the views of parents, elevating them over government intrusion. If a federal program provides $40 a month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs via an EBT card, then, presumably, those parents are making the best choices for their children.
Right?
Not so! says Kim Reynolds. Low-income families are too stupid, she implies, not to give their kids nutritious foods when childhood obesity has become an epidemic. By not participating the federal program then, Reynolds is ostensibly protecting children. But really, her non-participation undermines sanctified parental choices in Iowa to provide for their kids.
And who is she to supersede parental rights? A Republican governor.
Just tell them if more poor kids survive until adulthood there's more cheap workforce around.
The kids generally survive anyway, just with stunted cognitive growth....which helps maintain a cheap ~~underclass~~ workforce.
And full prison system.
Feed a kid instant ramen for all their meals -> iron deficiency -> behavioral problems. Believe a poor kid like this was featured in A Place at the Table (2012), or a similar documentary. An example who opened my eyes to the fact that… well, it’s not bad to consider thinking kindly, even when it seems like an adult just sucks.
Remind me of this old Babylon 5 scene.
That was fucking awesome. If this were reddit, I'd give you a silver.
Yeah... but if you feed those kids they'll just expect government handouts for the rest of their life. What do you just expect the government to give them money when they're old or something? You have to save for retirement!
Now where's my social security check?
I guess she'd rather they just starve...
Of course, what this is really all about is a refusal to pay taxes.