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When I was a real little kid, summer was always a hard time for me to eat because I was cut off from the subsidized lunch program. My mother was severely mentally ill and barely provided a meal a day sometimes. Food stamps, subsidized lunch programs and food shelves provided most of my nutrition, it was a benefit she couldn't divert away from feeding me and my siblings most of the time.

Anybody who supports removing these programs is legitimately a monster. It keeps so many kids alive or from developing horrific nutritional deficiencies. It has nothing but a positive impact on the community and economy.

Remember folks, the cruelty is the point.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/1014208767/trumps-america-and-why-the-cruelty-is-the-point

Most of the time, you are not looking at someone who believes it’s for the best that food programs are cuts.

You are looking at someone who is prepared to do that, to activate their base.

Children should just fucking starve. They should think twice about being born poor.

THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT REPUBLICANS SAY. WHAT THEY THINK. THEY DON'T EVEN TRY TO HIDE IT. THIS IS A ACTUAL TALKING POINT

She literally got up and argued that she hates the program that allows poor people to chose their own food and wants a programs where the state chooses food for you.

Small government my ass.

40 fucking dollars per month per kid. That might pay for a month’s worth of rice but isn’t a week’s worth for fruits, vegetables, and protein!

The federal 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (EBT) program, which provides low-income families with $40 per child per month to help with food costs while schools are closed...

What we should be really angry about is how shit that benefit is. $40 per month?? Really? That's like 5 days of canned food. Absolutely pathetic.

Anyone who doesn't want to feed kids is a monster. Children are not at fault for their parent's economic situation

Didn’t even make it through the article because she’s so vile. She will let kids starve because aid, it seems, won’t fix the problem.

turning down federal money (the now-permanent program is paid for by the feds, not by the participating states) because it would go to poor kids.

Disgusting, vile, putrid feeces filled flesh bag. And that doesn't even properly describe how horrible this woman is.

Oh wow it’s not even a state program. It would cost the state nothing to let families have that $40/month from the federal government.

Reynolds apparently doesn't know the part of the Bible where Jesus says that hurting kids is a one way ticket to hell. It's astounding how with every action, the people who scream the loudest about Christianity admit they know the least about it.

With the excess produce in this country, everybody could be easily fed. Better for it to rot in a landfill than to help those in need all year long.

Fun fact: She endorsed DeSantis for president.

(And now she's acting like him.)

You know, it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor Said it ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is It ain't no hope for the future And then they wonder why we crazy I blame my mother for turning my brother into a crack baby We ain't meant to survive, 'cause it's a setup And even though you're fed up Huh, ya got to keep your head up

Keep Ya Head Up

By: Tupac Shakur

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced a few days before Christmas that her state would not participate in a summer federal food program for impoverished children, which has prompted backlash online.

Reynolds, who has served as the governor of the Hawkeye State since 2017, announced on Friday that Iowa would not be joining other states in the federal 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (EBT) program, which provides low-income families with $40 per child per month to help with food costs while schools are closed, the Associated Press reported.

"Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don't provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families," the governor said said.

While in the survey's lower half, she still outranked several other prominent governors, including Republicans like Greg Abbott of Texas and Tate Reeves of Mississippi.

Kim Reynolds had the audacity to cite child obesity as she defended her decision to deprive poor kids of food," author and journalist Mark Jacob wrote in his own post.

As explained in a September post from the Iowa Senate Democratic Party, certain aspects of this expansion violate federal child labor laws, specifically those allowing "16- and 17-year-olds to operate dangerous power-driven machines, engage in heavy manufacturing, and work in demolition," and not requiring "16- and 17-year-olds working in apprenticeship or student-learner roles to be registered by the U.S. Department of Labor or a state agency."

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"An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic."

Reynolds has done something impressive. She has said one of the most stupid things I've ever heard from a republican. That's a very high bar to clear, saying something so inconceivably stupid that it has special distinction from all of the other inconceivably stupid things republicans say. Yet somehow she managed to pull it off.

The governor watched the Christmas Carol and thought Scrooge was an okay fellow at the start.

As a teacher who has fed kids who otherwise would have gone hungry over the summer, I'm appalled.

As an Iowan, I have no idea what more to do. Voting certainly hasn't worked so far and reasonable arguments fall on deaf ears. Yes, I could move, but is it really any better anywhere else? I would feel like I was abandoning my family, my students, and community. It is important to show through action and compassion that there is more than just this kind of conservative nonsense in the world. Of course, she fast tracked giving our public education dollars to private schools with no change in accountability measures...