Free Lunches
Related to yesterday's rant: “Children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama's school lunch rules." Link.
It's a good article, highlighting the folly that is the free lunch (which reminds me of something I should've mention yesterday: even the time-honored cliche "There's no free lunch" has been turned on its head).
Marie has seen first-hand the enormous waste at those free lunches. She has occasionally gone to them with the kids (all kids in our town get free lunches during the summer) and seen garbage cans filled with the discarded food. Under the regulations, the workers must give the kids everything on the menu, even if the kids don't want it, with the result that the healthier items just get thrown away in piles.
It's shameless, it really is, the wasted opulence that is 21st-century America. If there's not a big business interest benefiting handsomely from this big government benefit, I'll eat my underwear. If Pope Francis really wanted to make a contribution, he should dispatch Vatican sources to investigate the waste that is the Socialistic free lunch in America today. He would immediately re-think his criticisms of the free market and begin to realize that the enemy is, as Chesterton pointed out, Hudge and Gudge.
