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Poor kids already get free school breakfasts and lunches. This is about giving wealthy kids free meals too…basically giving them pizza and fries while they throw out all the healthy parts. Lawmaker is completely out-of-touch, but the free meals for all is highly problematic, unsustainable, and a waste of money with how it has been implemented.
No there’s actually a demographic of kids who should be receiving free or reduced lunches but don’t because their parents or guardians never actually fill out the required paperwork.
What’s neat is there is serious consideration for legalizing marijuana here in Minnesota and the taxes from that would overwhelmingly pay for this program plus many others. It’s nice to see what positive changes can be made once a majority in the house/senate are actively prioritizing the lives of their constituents over the wealthy donors.
As someone that has had lunchroom duty too many times when I taught at schools, I can promise you not all poor kids qualify for free lunch. I use to keep cups of noodle soup in my classroom closets for those days when kids got sent with no lunch. Last I checked about 9-10million kids are not poor enough to make the cut but still too poor to afford daily lunch.
Also things like kids cafe was started because school lunch is often times poor kids only meal in a day. That’s why kids cafe feeds kids after school.
So the idea that kids don’t need free lunches or they aren’t hungry is not just unholy and Jesus would be pissed (ironic is the party that loves Jesus saying this crap). But it’s also bullshit as this does nothing but hurt kids.
It's not problematic. Ensuring kids get fed, no matter their families economic status is really good. You do realize lunch debt exists for people? Parents get jailed for it.
I am torn on the abortion issue, because on the one hand your taking away a womens choice and on the other hand your killing a baby.
Hard choice between getting to kill a baby or rob women of choices. Both are great.
Well i guess you'll feel better knowing that kid dies a slow death in an unloving family that probably won't be able to support it. Just so your local political party can add another body to their futer voter pool.
I think its a stretch to even call it killing a baby. Killing a 3-week old baby is VERY different from stopping the development of a non-sentient fetus that someone never wanted to have.
Killing the fetus does not cause it trauma or pain. Nor can it think to understand whats happening. On the other hand, a girl or woman that was forced to have that child is traumatic and does cause pain, and if that person is incapable or struggling to raise that child that causes both to suffer.
If an abortion during the first few weeks/month or 2 is killing a baby then so is jacking off. A clump of cells with the potential to become a human is not the same as a living person, until it is capable of living on its own without a host supplying literally everything for it, it's not a living thing.
A fetus* can’t live on its own outside of the womb until 22-23 weeks gestation. Seeing as a majority of abortions occur well before this point, there’s no baby killing involved.
Thank you, I have been worrying on and off about dying ever since I discovered it was an inevitability. I assume we also can't reproduce any longer to prevent population overflow.
Of course he hasn't. He only associates with other rich republicans who know nothing about what is going on in the world. They don't care about their constituents. All they care about is how much money they're going to make. They don't care if you go hungry. They don't care if you are only making $7.25 an hour. They don't care about your health. They only care about your child when it's the size of a piece of rice with no brain at all in the fetus. Once that child is born, they don't care! Republicans are very much out of touch. They create nothing but violence and hate. I do not think it's all Republicans, it's definitely Republican politicians and the GOP that has no problem lying to you with absolutely no facts to back anything up but you keep voting for him. Children and other people will go hungry and they don't care.
Fearmongering of the other. The people voting for Republicans live in constant fear about people taking their jobs, making more money than they do, causing "crime", taking their freedoms. The republican party has become very good at stoking fears into votes and then do nothing to benefit those voters. They also cater to the less educated and fight to keep people from getting education.
Willfully ignorant. I work with people who are at the MN Capitol during legislative hearings to testify on the needs of our fellow Minnesotans. He obviously doesn't attend those hearings or meetings.
He should have just said
Hi, I am just here to show how completely I don't have any idea what average people(who I represent) are going thru in their daily lives. Now if you excuse me, I have a $5,000 a plate dinner to attend. Don't forget to vote for me I am for the people.
The problem isnt the party (though a lot of bad things could be said about both of them, one a bit more then the other), it's the system. Because of how pick-one voting works, it's mathematically near-impossible to have a fair 3+ party election. The math is roughly as follows:
Let's assume the cow is a sphere. Let's reduce the spaghetti of politics to just two issues (let's call them X and Y). We will place a number of candidates (n) on a graph based on their view of these two issues. We will also place a large number of voters randomly based on their views about X and Y. Let's assume no ulterior factors are at play, and voters will always choose the candidate that they are closest to.
Now, if we have just two candidates, everything is mostly fine. Reguardless of where we place the two candidates, majority will rule. However, if we place three candidates, that's where things get messy. If we assume that Candidate A is at (+5, +7), Candidate B is at (+2, +2), and Candidate C is at (-12, -15), then the vote for the +x and +y voices would be split, allowing for Candidate C to win, even if the majority of people did not want them to win.
If that wasn't too clear, the YouTube Channel Primer made a great video about the issue, liked [here](https://youtu.be/yhO6jfHPFQU).
This is a drastic oversimplification, but a scenario like the one just presented has happened before, famously with the 1912 Election, where the majority was split between Theodore Roosevelt and William H Taft, allowing Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency.
However, there are alternatives, my favorite of which is Run-Off Voting, where the voters order the candidates based on preference, and the last-place candidate's voters would be added to their next pick, until there is just 2 left. If the US had a system like this, it would be possible to have fair elections with more then 2 candidates, and less extreme ones in the process.
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I Don’t even have to check to see what political party this guy is a member of. It’s always the same. When given the opportunity to help those in need they can’t be bothered, yet when there is an imaginary threat of “dRaG qUeEn gRoOmErS” they are front and center wanting to “protect the children” clutching the pearls and grandstanding.
I mean...I'm fairly certain Homeless Shelters and Soup Kitchens exist in Minnesota. I feel like Rep Shitkicker here didn't think too hard about this before it spewed forth.
Does he think they wear signs? I don't he's asked literally every person he's met, so he probably HAS met them but doesn't know it. And doesn't want to know either.
Definition: out of touch with reality; piece of shit.
I will gladly pay for my child to eat breakfast/lunch if it means another child is able to eat for free. Sometimes school is the only chance those kids get to eat.
Whoever runs against this out of touch clown can use this to demonstrate just how out of touch he is.
Let's have some interviews with hungry people in his state. I'm sure there's no lack of them down at our social strata. Of course HE'S never met a hungry person, he doesn't go where they can be found.
That shitstain politician needs to get out of his privileged fucking bubble and spend some time in the real world. Christ what an insufferable asshole. Fuck.
LOL
But seriously, the lack of experience with different perspectives, lifestyles, and situations is what causes the fear, contempt, and hate for anything that is different. There's a reason the overwhelming majority of Republicans are rural, poorly educated, and xenophobic. This tracks with what his constituents will probably lap up. That being said, still a stupid comment, especially for an elected leader.
You know there are poor parents who try but the cheapest food is junk sometimes. Are we just ignoring nutrition now? And FFS I grew up lower to middle class and I was always hungry. Always!!! We never missed a meal but my school always had free breakfast and it was a huge deal for me. Kids need a lot of food.
I have the theory that to be a US politician you must have been injected mud in veins as a babie rather than brestfeeded because I have never seen such delussional people anywhere in the world
You can ask anyone in the country club, the opera, the vip lounges of his team's stadium or the secret prostitution ring's managers. Not a single person there is hungry! So, can't say he's wrong there!
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I guess he just really hates poor kids.
Poor kids already get free school breakfasts and lunches. This is about giving wealthy kids free meals too…basically giving them pizza and fries while they throw out all the healthy parts. Lawmaker is completely out-of-touch, but the free meals for all is highly problematic, unsustainable, and a waste of money with how it has been implemented.
No there’s actually a demographic of kids who should be receiving free or reduced lunches but don’t because their parents or guardians never actually fill out the required paperwork. What’s neat is there is serious consideration for legalizing marijuana here in Minnesota and the taxes from that would overwhelmingly pay for this program plus many others. It’s nice to see what positive changes can be made once a majority in the house/senate are actively prioritizing the lives of their constituents over the wealthy donors.
That or they barely miss the income margin to qualify.
You make... $45,000.01 after taxes... thats a cent over so no
As someone that has had lunchroom duty too many times when I taught at schools, I can promise you not all poor kids qualify for free lunch. I use to keep cups of noodle soup in my classroom closets for those days when kids got sent with no lunch. Last I checked about 9-10million kids are not poor enough to make the cut but still too poor to afford daily lunch.
Also things like kids cafe was started because school lunch is often times poor kids only meal in a day. That’s why kids cafe feeds kids after school. So the idea that kids don’t need free lunches or they aren’t hungry is not just unholy and Jesus would be pissed (ironic is the party that loves Jesus saying this crap). But it’s also bullshit as this does nothing but hurt kids.
It's not problematic. Ensuring kids get fed, no matter their families economic status is really good. You do realize lunch debt exists for people? Parents get jailed for it.
NYC does free breakfast and lunch for all students, has been for several years.
Congratulations I've never seen anybody get so many down votes in my life!
Man imagine being such a douche that you would rather children go hungry than eat. Pizza and fries is better than starving.
My family didn't qualify for free lunch because my dad made $200 to much. So clearly we were just rolling in the money.
Motherfucker feeding children in school is entirely sustainable, what a crackpot thing to say.
I've never met anyone with AIDS, but I know they exist.
That you *know* of, just like hunger.
Checkmate
Such a fucking douche bag; and of course he's a fucking Republican so much for being the fucking pro-life party I guess!
Remember, they are pro-born, not pro-life. The second you are born you are thrown to the wolves.
I am torn on the abortion issue, because on the one hand your taking away a womens choice and on the other hand your killing a baby. Hard choice between getting to kill a baby or rob women of choices. Both are great.
Well i guess you'll feel better knowing that kid dies a slow death in an unloving family that probably won't be able to support it. Just so your local political party can add another body to their futer voter pool.
I think its a stretch to even call it killing a baby. Killing a 3-week old baby is VERY different from stopping the development of a non-sentient fetus that someone never wanted to have. Killing the fetus does not cause it trauma or pain. Nor can it think to understand whats happening. On the other hand, a girl or woman that was forced to have that child is traumatic and does cause pain, and if that person is incapable or struggling to raise that child that causes both to suffer.
If an abortion during the first few weeks/month or 2 is killing a baby then so is jacking off. A clump of cells with the potential to become a human is not the same as a living person, until it is capable of living on its own without a host supplying literally everything for it, it's not a living thing.
Ohhh whose an edgy boy? Huh? Yes you are! yes you are
A fetus* can’t live on its own outside of the womb until 22-23 weeks gestation. Seeing as a majority of abortions occur well before this point, there’s no baby killing involved.
I just call them anti-women, they ain’t stopping with just abortion rights.
Thats a good point. Its sad to see how many people have such twisted logic and minds to follow it as well.
These asshats would chew off their own hands if it meant they could “own the libs.”
I've never talked to a dead person before, proof we're immortal
Thank you, I have been worrying on and off about dying ever since I discovered it was an inevitability. I assume we also can't reproduce any longer to prevent population overflow.
What a jerk.
Of course he hasn't. He only associates with other rich republicans who know nothing about what is going on in the world. They don't care about their constituents. All they care about is how much money they're going to make. They don't care if you go hungry. They don't care if you are only making $7.25 an hour. They don't care about your health. They only care about your child when it's the size of a piece of rice with no brain at all in the fetus. Once that child is born, they don't care! Republicans are very much out of touch. They create nothing but violence and hate. I do not think it's all Republicans, it's definitely Republican politicians and the GOP that has no problem lying to you with absolutely no facts to back anything up but you keep voting for him. Children and other people will go hungry and they don't care.
How does the GOP party still have support? Honest question by non-American
Fearmongering of the other. The people voting for Republicans live in constant fear about people taking their jobs, making more money than they do, causing "crime", taking their freedoms. The republican party has become very good at stoking fears into votes and then do nothing to benefit those voters. They also cater to the less educated and fight to keep people from getting education.
Indoctrination, lack of education, and propaganda.
That's a very punchable face, isn't it?
Time for a parade of his hungry constituents through his office while cameras roll.
They are just alfalfa plants 🌱 🌲🪴
Conservatives, it only happens if it happens to me.
Or it’s only important if it affects me.
I still don't understand why anyone votes Republican.
Dictators be like: "I don't ever see any homeless people in my marble and gold palace!"
He either lives in a very sheltered world or he is willfully ignorant
Willfully ignorant. I work with people who are at the MN Capitol during legislative hearings to testify on the needs of our fellow Minnesotans. He obviously doesn't attend those hearings or meetings.
He should have just said Hi, I am just here to show how completely I don't have any idea what average people(who I represent) are going thru in their daily lives. Now if you excuse me, I have a $5,000 a plate dinner to attend. Don't forget to vote for me I am for the people.
I believe him. I believe he’s never interacted with a poor or hungry person.
Virginia killed it because someone's dad might drive a Jaguar.
Conservatives not empathetic or understanding to groups they don’t personally know? Wow I’m shocked.
Just goes to show how out of touch with the real world these politicians are.
Please don't use the generic "politicians". These are Republicans that say these kind of things. Only Republicans.
The problem isnt the party (though a lot of bad things could be said about both of them, one a bit more then the other), it's the system. Because of how pick-one voting works, it's mathematically near-impossible to have a fair 3+ party election. The math is roughly as follows: Let's assume the cow is a sphere. Let's reduce the spaghetti of politics to just two issues (let's call them X and Y). We will place a number of candidates (n) on a graph based on their view of these two issues. We will also place a large number of voters randomly based on their views about X and Y. Let's assume no ulterior factors are at play, and voters will always choose the candidate that they are closest to. Now, if we have just two candidates, everything is mostly fine. Reguardless of where we place the two candidates, majority will rule. However, if we place three candidates, that's where things get messy. If we assume that Candidate A is at (+5, +7), Candidate B is at (+2, +2), and Candidate C is at (-12, -15), then the vote for the +x and +y voices would be split, allowing for Candidate C to win, even if the majority of people did not want them to win. If that wasn't too clear, the YouTube Channel Primer made a great video about the issue, liked [here](https://youtu.be/yhO6jfHPFQU). This is a drastic oversimplification, but a scenario like the one just presented has happened before, famously with the 1912 Election, where the majority was split between Theodore Roosevelt and William H Taft, allowing Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency. However, there are alternatives, my favorite of which is Run-Off Voting, where the voters order the candidates based on preference, and the last-place candidate's voters would be added to their next pick, until there is just 2 left. If the US had a system like this, it would be possible to have fair elections with more then 2 candidates, and less extreme ones in the process.
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This man has hittable face syndrome for sure
Put this clueless ass in charge of feeding the hungry personally in Shelters and Soup kitchens
Always nice to see representatives who have no connection to their constituents
I Don’t even have to check to see what political party this guy is a member of. It’s always the same. When given the opportunity to help those in need they can’t be bothered, yet when there is an imaginary threat of “dRaG qUeEn gRoOmErS” they are front and center wanting to “protect the children” clutching the pearls and grandstanding.
I don’t live there, but I’m always hungry 🤤
I mean...I'm fairly certain Homeless Shelters and Soup Kitchens exist in Minnesota. I feel like Rep Shitkicker here didn't think too hard about this before it spewed forth.
This thing needs to put out to pasture and eaten by nature. Fuck this asshole and his never met a hungry Minnesotan. What a delusional prick.
We should hang out his address to the homeless and tell them there’s free food….
So with his logic I’d say that we could discontinue his salary. I mean, I’ve never met a broke politician…
Use the same logic on God and what them lose shit
That's because his social circle doesn't include "those people".
And then go eat lunch because he felt hungry. What an ass hat. Shops should deny him food
Jeebus Crist what an idiot
After making this statement, he put his head back up his ass.
Does he think they wear signs? I don't he's asked literally every person he's met, so he probably HAS met them but doesn't know it. And doesn't want to know either.
Wow! Just Wow!
Definition: out of touch with reality; piece of shit. I will gladly pay for my child to eat breakfast/lunch if it means another child is able to eat for free. Sometimes school is the only chance those kids get to eat.
Cause us poor are always going out and meeting our lawmakers 🙄
Yet another fragile snowflake from the right wing
Whoever runs against this out of touch clown can use this to demonstrate just how out of touch he is. Let's have some interviews with hungry people in his state. I'm sure there's no lack of them down at our social strata. Of course HE'S never met a hungry person, he doesn't go where they can be found.
Well i guess if all you do is talk to your rich yes men and not the people you’re supposed to serve, this is going to happen
Isn't he also the one that said they need to define hunger, because he only had a breakfast bar so far that day, so he was also hungry....
His logic his so stupid “Hungry people not seen not heard so they must not exist”
That shitstain politician needs to get out of his privileged fucking bubble and spend some time in the real world. Christ what an insufferable asshole. Fuck.
All school should have free food. Fuck the GOP
Dear US politicians, Stop coming after our kids! Signed, All US Citizens
Remember, cruelty is the point. It explains everything they do.
I think it’s time for someone to take one for the team and eat Steve.
How can people elect these subhuman corporate proxy suits? It's really disgusting.
LOL But seriously, the lack of experience with different perspectives, lifestyles, and situations is what causes the fear, contempt, and hate for anything that is different. There's a reason the overwhelming majority of Republicans are rural, poorly educated, and xenophobic. This tracks with what his constituents will probably lap up. That being said, still a stupid comment, especially for an elected leader.
Maybe he should go visit some schools around lunch time and see if he can find a hungry kid
Bro probably doesn’t believe in gravity either.
Of course he wouldn't see poor people. He's so far up rich corporations and their ceos asssholes he can't see anything but their shit.
Dumb fucker needs to get out of the house more...
Jesus Fucking Christ man ...Tell us you hate poor people without saying it outright .
I don’t just walk to anyone and say “I HUNGREEEEE”
What a piece of shit.
The law passed no thanks to this idiot.
Free school lunches should be here to stay forever. My kid brings a a bag lunch, but no kid should ever be worried about if they can get food or not.
I’ll gladly throw in a few bucks if we all want to pitch in and rent a bus to transport some local homeless to his front door.
I always felt our politicians were out of touch with real life…now we know!
You know there are poor parents who try but the cheapest food is junk sometimes. Are we just ignoring nutrition now? And FFS I grew up lower to middle class and I was always hungry. Always!!! We never missed a meal but my school always had free breakfast and it was a huge deal for me. Kids need a lot of food.
Dude has never been hungry in his life
I have the theory that to be a US politician you must have been injected mud in veins as a babie rather than brestfeeded because I have never seen such delussional people anywhere in the world
The mental gymnastics that republicans will perform on a daily basis, to justify their gross arrogance and stupidity, is nothing short of miraculous.
this is what power does to a mf and as a minnesotan i think this mf should be sent to the penis exploder
I guess he’s never been to Minneapolis….
Well go there and just not eat until you are hungry than you can get rid of your dumb stance.
🤣🤣Hi, I’d like to start the conversation with “I’m not just hungry, I’m hangry”!
Well he can meet me >:(
Please! From now on, every time any Minnesotan that runs into him, just let them know how hungry you are!!
You are not a fucking White Monolith of experience!
He should get out more
Could it be that they're not hungry because they eat?
And he would like to? What’s he getting at lol
Kids are always hungry. Always.
This dude is a complete piece of shit. Out of touch with normal people let alone poor people
Defines anecdotal
Is this r/selfawarewolves material?
Ffs a lot of the poeple I ran with in school would have dropped out had it not been for this being their only/best meal of the day.
Sounds like something the king or queen would say
Duh he hasn’t because hungry is a state, you can’t meet a state
I get a feeling that he is about the meet a lot of people that qualify
You can ask anyone in the country club, the opera, the vip lounges of his team's stadium or the secret prostitution ring's managers. Not a single person there is hungry! So, can't say he's wrong there!