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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:08 PM
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Please excuse my "appeal to authority." Because Eleanor Roosevelt
said so. And the New Deal. And Truman.

New Deal dollars also funded free school lunch programs...

<snip>

much more at Dear Mrs. Roosevelt.


...I had a meeting with the school lunch committee, set up under the auspices of the farm bureau and with the help of the home economics extension agent.

<snip>

Lately, I was told that it would be extremely difficult to make people believe that school lunches had anything to do with the war work....It becomes not a local feeling, but a national feeling which may have a very serious effect on work which needs to be done...

In a later column I shall try to explain why school lunches have a bearing in this new world...

link to 1942 article


1944 "All Children Are Our Children" chosen as theme of national convention; Eleanor Roosevelt gave convention address

1946: Truman signs into law:

"despite our capacity to produce food we have often failed to distribute as well as we should."


What part of Democratic Party and New Deal don't you get?
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:13 PM
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1. Oh, no ya don't. This stays at the top.
Call yourself a Democrat but don't support New Deal programs - for children?
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:17 PM
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2. Kicked and recced. nt
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:47 PM
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13. Thank you. nt
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:22 PM
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3. Rule Number One: Feed The Children.
Rule Number Two: NEVER FORGET RULE NUMBER ONE.
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:46 PM
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12. Rule Number Three: "They are *all* our children" (from link above)
Seems so easy.
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:34 PM
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4. Who else supported the School Lunch Program? Surprise.
Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 05:42 PM by Cerridwen
Children’s welfare confounded predictable political lines again during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when powerful images of hungry children propelled Republican president Richard Nixon to announce that he would, within a year’s time, provide every poor child a free school lunch. Nixon vastly increased funds for free meals and, ultimately, turned the National School Lunch Program into the nation’s premier poverty program.


That dirty leftist.

No, but really, we haven't moved the center marker to the right. No. Not at all.

edit: forgot link http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8640.html
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:42 PM
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6. It's true -- the GOP didn't move the center marker to the right: they destroyed it.
They made it walk the plank right after the liberal marker.

But now they seem determined to make themselves walk the plank.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:44 PM
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9. What about the Democratic Party? When we've reached the point that Dick Nixon
would be shunned as "extreme left" by "our" party, what the hell has happened to us?
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:45 PM
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10. Yep. I can not imagine being to "the right" of Nixon.
I really can't imagine being to the right of Nixon (or Eisenhower for that matter) and trying to convince people I'm a Democrat.

That hurts my head.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:35 PM
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5. Another K&R for you, It is simply inconceivable to me that these few idiots
can actually twist their minds into such a contorted mess that they feel justified in opposing such a basic, and obviously beneficial service.

"Are there no prisons?" said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. "Are there no workhouses?"

Have we regressed so far that 19th century England is the accepted model for societal behavior?
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:43 PM
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7. I agree.
And I nominated the OP. Well done.
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:45 PM
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11. Thank you. I appreciate it.
:D
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 07:30 PM
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20. Thank you. I'm just stunned.
:kick:
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 05:43 PM
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8. More likely, 13th century England.
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:06 PM
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14. A couple of institutes against the "School Lunch Program"
Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 06:06 PM by Cerridwen
because, ya know, it's not "nutritious" enough, it's too expensive, parents need to parent better, the program could be abused, (unlike the banks, I guess) and of course, OMG, some kids who aren't "deserving" might slip through.

The Hoover Institute

The Cato Institute

I'll leave you to google their sites to see what they have against the program.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:20 PM
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15. Two institutions with a spotless record of being right time after time.
:sarcasm::eyes:
:kick:
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:23 PM
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16. Right! I mean correct.
:D
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:32 PM
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17. Oh hell. I should have put palin's breast-feeding her kid at the
Olive Garden while eating a cheese sandwich in the title.

:kick:
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 06:45 PM
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18. The "authoritarians" are super-posting to keep these threads down.
Instead of replying on the threads, they're all posting new threads saying the same thing over and over.

Well, I can just keep kicking and kicking.
:kick:
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 07:19 PM
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19. Nah...it's just not a very sexy way to discuss the program.
:shrug:
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 05:30 AM
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21. Kick. And a Rec!
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 06:58 AM
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23. Thank you, Luminous. I much appreciate it. n/t
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 05:43 AM
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22. K&R
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 06:59 AM
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24. G'mornin', Solly. Thank ye, ma'am.
Good to see you.

:hi:
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 02:29 PM
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25. Mere coincidence that a thread about deliberate, institutional humiliation
of poor kids gets turned into a debate about cheese sandwiches and school lunch programs?
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