Goverment Shutdown

[5string]

Watching the news and saw that at the end of this month, schools will run out of money for partially paid or outright free meals for school children.

Then I get to thinking, my mother made me breakfast every morning when I was young. I also had a lunchbox to take to school with lots of goodies in it for my lunch. Yum yum.

These days, the taxpayers pay for the food the little urchins consume because the parents don't step up and get it done. Parenting, caring and providing for children is now nonexistent for the most part. Why the fvck do I have to pay for this? Especially since I never had kids. Fvcking country is socialistic. Make no mistake about it. How bout mommy and daddy at least use their food stamps to make their kids a lunch to take with them?

Then I hear some guy was mowing the lawn behind the Lincoln memorial in DC because of the shutdown. He was told to stop or face arrest. He just said to them that somebody had to do it. I dig that.

This country has been circling the drain for quite sometime now. Nobody takes responsibilty any longer for themselves, let alone their families. It's always somebody else's fault or responsibility.

Gonna be a long day.

 

[Mike32ct]

Some parents don't actually send their kids to school to learn. School is free daycare AND free meals.

 

[Bible_Belt]

There are a lot of parents who barely feed their kids at all; they just expect the school to do it. There is a thriving black market in what used to be called food stamps. It's usually a credit card these days, but there's still nothing to stop people from trading food for cigarettes, booze, and drugs. My gf has worked with a private charity that packs brown paper bags of food for kids to take home over weekends, because a lot of them don't get fed at home at all. In the summer, churches run kids' breakfast programs for the same reason.

 

[5string]

There are a lot of parents who barely feed their kids at all; they just expect the school to do it. There is a thriving black market in what used to be called food stamps. It's usually a credit card these days, but there's still nothing to stop people from trading food for cigarettes, booze, and drugs. My gf has worked with a private charity that packs brown paper bags of food for kids to take home over weekends, because a lot of them don't get fed at home at all. In the summer, churches run kids' breakfast programs for the same reason.

Hear ya Bible

Maybe if if we keep the door shut on the dumpster, the bears won't come back for free food and fend for themselves.

 

[user43770]

There are a lot of parents who barely feed their kids at all; they just expect the school to do it. There is a thriving black market in what used to be called food stamps. It's usually a credit card these days, but there's still nothing to stop people from trading food for cigarettes, booze, and drugs. My gf has worked with a private charity that packs brown paper bags of food for kids to take home over weekends, because a lot of them don't get fed at home at all. In the summer, churches run kids' breakfast programs for the same reason.

I used to know a guy with two kids that would sell his food stamps for cash money (at a discounted price).

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

I'm very surprised that shutdowns don't happen more often. It amazes me that the 2 parties are EVER able to agree on anything, what with so much power and money at stake.

It's all a con, really. There's not much difference between the two parties.

There's THIS, that shows O (and his fellow Dems) were against raising the debt ceiling back when GW was in the house, in which case the Repubs were all for raising the debt ceiling.

Nobody seems to mind that they've BOTH gone 180.

Whatever argument the Dems are making FOR the debt ceiling, the Repubs made the SAME arguments back in 2006.

Whatever arguments the Repubs are making AGAINST raising the debt ceiling, the Dems made the SAME arguments back in 2006.

This is really just scare tactics, to con the public into more debt (printing more money,) so the government can avoid the horrors of fiscal responsibility.

 

[user43770]

It's all a con, really. There's not much difference between the two parties.

There's THIS, that shows O (and his fellow Dems) were against raising the debt ceiling back when GW was in the house, in which case the Repubs were all for raising the debt ceiling.

Nobody seems to mind that they've BOTH gone 180.

Whatever argument the Dems are making FOR the debt ceiling, the Repubs made the SAME arguments back in 2006.

Whatever arguments the Repubs are making AGAINST raising the debt ceiling, the Dems made the SAME arguments back in 2006.

This is really just scare tactics, to con the public into more debt (printing more money,) so the government can avoid the horrors of fiscal responsibility.

Yep. All the government wants is majority support. The constitution means d1ck. The majority, these days, cares too much about dancing with stars, facebook and rich housewives to actually make a difference with their vote. The majority cares about what they're told to - what the MSM tells them to. You mad? You should be. I know I fvcking am. Guess what, there's nothing we can do about it. Fall in line, good citizen.

How many times have our elected officials bypassed the constitution to achieve their desired ends? I don't know the answer. Does anyone?

They do what they want, when they want. Good luck stopping them.



P.S.

I miss Burroughs.