Children Starving Because of Week of Snow Days. . . .Obesity Problem Solved. . . .

RUSH: "Snow Days Deprive Many Kids of Food." Do you remember back in the budget battle 1995 where Democrats went out there and said that Republicans wanted school lunch "cuts" (when there weren't any) and wanted to starve kids? People acted as though it was truthful and Democrats had little kids write cards to Republicans in Washington (child impression): "Please tonight starve me. If you cut the school lunch program I will starve to death I can't learn anything if I'm starving!" They actually sent these cards in.

Now from a tear-jerked Associated Press: "Snow Days Deprive Many Kids of Food -- Takoma Park, MD. As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online. But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat?"

This is what we've been reduced to. This, Governor Wilder, is the kind of foolishness and tomfoolery we gotta change. Kids at home were worried about whether they're going to eat? At home? You are of the opinion that parents will not feed their kids lunch? Are you of the opinion that the kids don't know where the refrigerator is or where the nearest Mickey D's is or Chuck E. Cheese? Are these kids so woefully inept that they can't find a bag of Ruffles Have Ridges in the cabinet? What in the world is going on here? "The two snowstorms that pummeled the region, leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day. The nonprofits that try to meet the need when school is not in session also closed their doors for much of the week, leaving many families looking at bare cupboards.

"And many parents working hourly jobs were unable to earn any money during the week as the snow forced businesses to close." Well, the only thing missing here is how many people died of starvation. Maybe if we keep reading we'll get the number. "Caplon is a food services supervisor for Montgomery County Public Schools, where about 43,000 children are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. Some also get breakfast, dinner and bags of staple foods to take home for the weekend." Staple foods? "The snow days meant children would get none of that until Tuesday, because schools are closed Monday for Presidents Day." Do you realize what this means? We have an epidemic of 43,000 starving kids out there for the last ght or nine days. They haven't eaten because the schools have been shut.

Well, maybe we don't need obesity programs, Michelle (My Belle). We just need more snow days! If you want to cure the childhood obesity problem, we've just learned what it is: Shut down the schools! Shut 'em down from a month and bye-bye obesity problem, right? Do you realize how silly this is? And this is the kind of people running the public school system: "Oh, my God, 43,000 children may be starving because we can't give them reduced prices free lunches in school because it's closed because of snow!" And of course the idiot parents can't even feed them. It never occurs to the parents to go to grocery store or stock up. Yet we've got this childhood obesity problem. Do I want to read any more of this?

What, Snerdley? Well, I don't know what the parents eat. Apparently whatever they're eating they're not sharing with the kids. I'll tell you, the parents in Maryland and Pennsylvania must be some of the stingiest, cheapest, meanest parents that we've got if the whole country 'cause there are 43,000 kids that have not had lunch in eight days because the school isn't open! This is a national scandal: 43,000 starving kids, Pennsylvania and Maryland (probably New York and New Jersey, too) 'cause the schools aren't open? What are the kids doing, sitting inside? Shoveling snow? Ha-ha-ha-ha. Hardly.

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When will schools be required to start providing kids with socks, underwear, tennis shoes and even their pants-on-the ground? A sled to play with on snow days? A jet ski for summer recreation?

God Bless the truly needy, but there is so much abuse in the government system. I have known married women that say their husbands have left them just so they can get freebies. (and no one ever verifies their (fake) tear jerking stories) Another generation of takers are being bred, and they will grow up to be dependent on the government.