That really sums it up. The Obama administration seeks to feed this nation’s children all year round — not just when school is in session. Another example of this year-round feeding frenzy is the $350 million Congress appropriated last year for the Summer Food Service Program, which provides nearly 2 million children with up to three meals per day during the summer months.
The audacity of the government to try to help poor, malnourished children!
But tell us, what's the solution?
The solution to the country’s child-nutrition problems can’t be found in school lunches or any federally funded child-meal program. The only real solution is to encourage parents to take greater control of what their children are eating.
Who knew that rising out of poverty was that easy? This is the classic conservative tack: emphasize the importance of personal responsibility on such matters, where responsibility in those cases translates to "you're on your own." Again, quite a limited definition of responsibility.
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Actually I'm fairly sure parents already have "control of what their children are eating."
2 million children times 60 days times 3 equals 360 million meals. I'm not sure what sort of nutrition is being dished out at less than a dollar a meal, but I would like to see the editors of the National Review try to live off it before they complain about it.
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