Those free Obama lunches....

  Those free lunches are supposed to do what? Feed hungry children?
  Or hungry egos?
  Establish a pattern of grasping dependent behavior that reaches about the poverty line and into the middle and upper classes?
  Thomas Paine wrote, "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."
  This is the very method this progressive government is using to lull the younger generations into complete dependency on outside forces (ie the government) to run their lives.
  Start with the children and gradually make their way of life so entrenched with giveaways and governmental guidance that, when you don't get your free stuff, you burn the streets (eg: London) to show the "conservatives" (that is, those who believe in self government and independence) that you CAN do something on your own. 
  Like burn.
  American Thinker today expands information on the free food programs being charged to the taxpayers in Detroit Schools we discussed in an earlier post:

Here's how the program works: if 40% of students at a school qualify for public assistance, thenevery student in the school will get free food.  That's free breakfast, lunch, and a snack.  If that sounds like arbitrary welfare waste, it is.  Sixty percent of the student body could be above the poverty line, ineligible for welfare, or even upper-class -- it doesn't matter.  Every student magically becomes entitled.
This welfare trap is named the Community Eligibility Option, part of President Obama's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.  Three states will be involved in a pilot program starting now, and more states will be phased in over time.  By 2014-15, the option will be available in all states, if this law is kept on the books.

  We need to feed hungry children; the mission of schools, however, is to educate, not to provide 3 squares a day and certainly not to waste federal dollars on people who can afford to feed their own children.
  This leads to several problems, not the least of which is that we're broke. We're borrowing the money to make sure kids don't feel "bad" about free lunches.
  With technology, there is no reason anyone should know who pays and who doesn't. Swipe the card and there you go.
  The other serious issue is that we create a culture of children who do not understand that the best way to live your life is to do as much for yourself as possible.
  Ben Franklin:

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

  Teach: we have no need of masters.