The same as debtors prison, how is that supposed to fix anything? Accomplishes literally nothing other than punishing people for being poor.
how about you start punishing companies for not paying people a livable wage?
Kids having lunch debt is the most American thing I’ve ever seen.
Just a reminder that the same people who are against free school lunches for children are the ones who stand in front of abortion clinics screaming about how abortion is murder.
There’s no contradiction for these people. All fetuses have a right to life and children should suffer if they don’t have enough money. Shoulda worked harder at the bootstraps factory if they didn’t want to eat shit their entire lives.
They max out at a 4 on Kohlberg’s morality scale, ie the laws are immutable and nothing can change them. The law says that everyone should live and our system is perfect because it’s our system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg’s_stages_of_moral_development
Sprinkle some smug self-satisifaction on top of this and it’s a real good portrait of the Christian right. Religion is a narotic for these folks who spend their days judging others. They believe in the correct God™ and His prosperity gospel. Anyone who is poor or those who “sin” deserve their lot in life. And how are kids to learn self-reliance when they’re coddled with free food? We’re so weak to let our kids live in such decadent times! What’s next, they won’t have to pay for healthcare after they made the bad decision to get hurt or sick?
They ask how we can be so wasteful as a society while they clutch their imitation pearl necklace. Meanwhile the public’s share of wealth shrinks and everyone is left to fight for the scraps. When the situation is so dire, it’s easy to fight with each other than to question big business, Wall Street or the financial sector.
The state wants to own your kids, that way you’re out of the way and they have slaves for life
Imagine going into lunch debt for horrible cafeteria food
And they have the nerve to ask why people aren’t having kids anymore
That picture of the food is a damn feast compared to what actually gets served.
America, the only country where they think they could not be any more selfish.
Starve your kid or lose them. That’s quite a choice for a poor parent to make.
My late father grew up in an orphanage because my grandfather was too poor to care for 5 kids and a sick wife. My grandparents were able to take the kids home on Sundays though, so it wasn’t a situation where they yielded full custody. I’m not saying an orphanage was ideal, but it’s a shame that these days there is not the same kind of middle ground where kids can be cared for but still stay connected to their family. I guess that is too much of a social safety net for conservatives to tolerate.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/20/us/pennsylvania-school-lunch-debt-trnd
Unless this is happening again, this story is from 2019. Still bad, just not recent
Yeah, it’s from 2019. The original article the bitly link went to is gone but it’s still on archive
But why oh why aren’t people having kids?!
“You might be giving your kids a terrible childhood, so we’re going to ensure they have a terrible life starting in our first-class foster care system”
How the fuck is that supposed to fix anything? It’s easily cheaper for the state to pay for their lunch.
Homeless people turn into cheap prison labor super easy. And foster kids become homeless so fast.
Well… Fast after they’re adults. But if they’re 8 years old, I wouldn’t call a decade fast.
Besides the point though. You’re correct, ruining people’s lives is advantageous to them. Convenient scape goat for everything sucks, free labour
Chritians also love “adopting”/occasionally accidentally kidnapping the children they’ve helped to render desperate. The Mormons are big on this and have a whole complex system built around it. Don’t take my word for it, here’s a highlighted portion from a Mormon bishop’s handbook:
Add that to the mile long list as to why the Mormons are a bunch of profligates deserving of butchering. Missouri was right to try to exterminate the Mormons.
I left Utah a year ago after 6 years there. I understand your anger all too well. I wish it weren’t so God-damned beautiful there.
Well if it makes it any worse I ain’t from Utah, I’m from the Inland Empire here in SoCal. I just think the Mormon church is probably the most destructively influencial group of the last two centuries here in the Western US. Though I do like at least one (dead) Mormon, that being John Moses Browning.
But then someone might get some benefit from their tax dollars!
Who made this warning?
I need a name
Because that has nothing to do with debt, putting kids in foster care wound only cost the state even more money
That is only about unbridled power and control
Absolutely delusional
Agreed. Name and shame. Whatever fucker came up with this deserves to be ostracised.
The Wyoming Valley West School District.
If you want the name of the person standing behind the letter,
Wyoming Valley West’s lawyer, Charles Coslett, said he did not consider the letters to be threatening.
“Hopefully, that gets their attention and it certainly did, didn’t it? I mean, if you think about it, you’re here this morning because some parents cried foul because he or she doesn’t want to pay a debt attributed to feeding their kids. How shameful,” Coslett told WYOU-TV.
I’m having a hard time confirming it, but it looks like an Irvin DeRemer was the super while this occurred, but was replaced in the 2025 election.
It’s also an empty threat,
Luzerne County’s manager and child welfare agency director have written the superintendent, insisting the district stop making what they call false claims.
Yes, but kids in foster care are easy to abuse, so your tax dollars might be worth it for some.
Also. The majority of long term homeless individuals are people that aged out of the foster care system. The moment they turn 18 they are out on their ass with only the clothing on their back and no life skills because foster care in America is little better than prison.
Aka slavery. The stories of foster kids are often horrific.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a class action lawsuit on the behalf of all foster children (past and present) against the US government. It would almost be impossible for any other modern country to do a worse job.
I’d like to see that happen, with meaningful reparations and meaningful, systemic changes and better oversight.
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