I recently shared with a friend my amazement that people would have children, but expect the federal government to feed them. At the beginning of the fiscal year, Buncombe County announced that one in five children living within its boundaries received federal assistance for food.
Unlike the commercials trying to recruit more people into government dependence, my friend replied, “Don’t tell me about it.” She just went back to work in the schools. Her husband was laid off, and she has kids of her own to raise. She once confided to me her favorite food was saltines. She told of kids picking around their free food and loading the trash cans with the rest. Once she intervened in a full carton of milk’s trip to the trash can. People ask why she doesn’t partake of the food. “It’s free,” they cry. “It is not,” she once replied, “because I pay for it.”
Well, today we read about children being provided “new and exciting” fruits and veegetables [sic.] thanks to the Department of Defense. The food not only nourishes their bodies while mom pays for essentials like cell phones and big-screen TV’s; the food raises awareness amongst children who otherwise would not even know what a fresh pear is. Not ironically, the online article downloaded an ad from a famous surgically-altered body builder.
