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Missouri has decided to turn down millions in federal food aid for low-income children
(www.stltoday.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Because not every state is the same, obviously.
The federal government should be building and running this system.
How exactly does the federal government get data on school demographics when the schools are run by individual states? Or should they just throw out money randomly and hope it's enough?
The federal government builds the infrastructure and systems for the schools to use so they can share this data. As it is the states need to all build their own to share this data with the federal government in order to get the funds for these meals.
Why would the states accept the federal government doing such a thing? Isn't that the federal government encroaching on their rights when it comes to deciding how education should be run in their states?
Why would they do it? To help the children. The federal government already runs many services that the states use.
You're hilarious.
So the democrat federal government don’t care about the children?
The government of Missouri doesn't care about children, which is one of many reasons why they would tell the federal government to fuck off if they tried that. What reality do you live in?
I feel like you’re not getting it for some reason.
The federal government should be on the ones running this, not state government. Missouri wouldn’t get a say.
The Missouri government would not object to the federal government paying for school lunches for kids if it was all handled for them. If you think that the government there just “hates children” then I’m going to assume that it’s a republican state and you’re a democrat voter, correct?
Again- how would the federal government get the demographics data without Missouri playing a part? Either Missouri agrees to do that, or the government comes in and takes its own demographics, which Missouri would tell them to go fuck off if they tried. You're on an Australian instance, so I'm thinking you just might be out of your element here.
Entering data into a website/system is vastly different from having to build and maintain said systems yourself. The latter is what is currently being asked, the former is what it should have been.
Why do you say the Missouri government hates kids? Because they’re a republican government I assume?
I’m not out of my element at all. We’re discussing an article and I’m questioning why a federal government initiative to help kids was not rolled out by the federal government. You’re the ones giving it to Missouri for not doing it, while sticking up for the Democrat Federal government for also not doing.
Weird how every other state has been able to do it except Missouri.
And there's a lot of reasons they hate kids. Missouri is in the bottom 20% in education, for example.
Also, it's not a "Democrat federal government." The federal government is mixed between Democrats and Republicans. This is why I am saying you are out of your element. You don't know very basic facts.
Every state isn’t the same.
The democrats are in power. They won the election. It’s a democrat federal government.
No, the Democrats are not in power. There are three branches of the federal government. The Democrats control the executive branch. The legislative branch is split with the house being controlled by Republicans and the senate being controlled by Democrats. The judicial branch is controlled by Republicans. Yet again, you are out of your element because you do not know basic facts.
Please stay in Australia.
Imagine being this tribal about your political "teams" that you would rather kids not get free food just so you can hate on the other "team" lol