School Breakfast For Everyone
14th September 2010
This is a case study in how government expands. First there were free school lunch programs for poor kids. Then that got expanded to breakfast, and further expanded to summertime, when school isn’t in session. Now it’s being expanded from poor kids to everyone, so that instead of spending school time learning to read and write and do math, students are chowing down on Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms. And the responsibility for feeding children devolves away from parents onto the state, in partnership with the lobbyists for the manufacturers of Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms.
It’s funny how the same people who argue against tax cuts for the “wealthy” who don’t “need” the money have no problem dispensing Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms to children who don’t need them.