National Review editor: Parents of kids in school breakfast programs are criminals

[Hannah Bell]

Parents of children who participate in school breakfast programs are "criminally negligent," says the Washington editor of the conservative National Review.

Kate O’Beirne, who also appears as a pundit on MSNBC, made the comment at a Republican strategy session she moderated at the Hudson Institute Friday.

"My question is what poor excuse for a parent can’t rustle up a bowl of cereal and a banana?" O’Beirne asked. "I just don’t get why millions of school children qualify for school breakfasts unless we have a major wide spread problem with child neglect."

She continued, "If that’s how many parents are incapable of pulling together a bowl of cereal and a banana, then we have problems that are way bigger than — that problem can’t be solved with a school breakfast, because we have parents who are just criminally … criminally negligent with respect to raising children."

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Ms. O'Beirne is evil-looking. She'd be a great villainess in a horror flick. Her domestic was probably the one feeding *her* kids.

Limbaugh recommends dumpster diving for the kiddies:

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In June, talk show host Rush Limbaugh responded to a report that 16 million children would go hungry over the summer holidays once school meals stopped by suggesting children check their refrigerator, and, failing that, a nearby McDonald’s. Then Limbaugh added:

"There’s another place if none of these options work to find food; there’s always the neighborhood dumpster. Now, you might find competition with homeless people there, but there are videos that have been produced to show you how to healthfully dine and how to dumpster dive and survive until school kicks back up in August.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Fuck the cereal and the banana.

How about a nice big slab of cake instead?

[salin]

2. sick

[mmonk]

3. I remember when I went to school with the large cafeterias,

the fully balanced meals you could get with a 25 cents meal ticket and no school budget problems before Reaganomics became the state religion.

[eShirl]

4. but tax cuts for millionaires isn't criminally negligent, oh no

[old mark]

5. K&R - I recall RW outrage on this in the Clinton era -

"Now they expect US to feed their kids"...the right has no decency at all and never has...but they are GREAT HATERS!


mark

[snappyturtle]

6. Kate's ignorance of the situation is stunning. Not only does she not recognize

the plight of 16 million children but she broadcasts her ignorance which will feed the class war. I imagine she is not a doner to her local food shelf.

[Sabriel]

7. Around here, parents often choose between heat and food

The two meals a day their kids get at school are sometimes the ONLY meals they get.

I doubt the O'Beirne would like to hear what schools in my district do: on half days--when there's no lunch served--students who receive free-and-reduced lunch support get a bag lunch to take home. And--horrors!--the schools provide breakfast in the summer, too. Socialism, I tell ya.

O'Beirne probably doesn't really care that on snow days, students sometimes go hungry until school resumes.

There's no ignorance like social class privilege ignorance....

[gkhouston]

16. +1. There are so many poor kids in my district that breakfast is free for ALL students.

They now bring it to the classrooms instead of serving it in the cafeteria. I suspect that's to encourage all the kids to eat something.

[Occulus]

8. Occulus: Parent of National Reviw Editor Obviously Abusive, Negligent

:D

[CBGLuthier]

9. LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!!!

I mean really, can't they borrow some breakfast from the maid? I mean really.

[handmade34]

10. if criminals....

then put the millions of parents in prison and the kids in orphanages; see where that gets us :banghead:


attributed to the Crooks and Liars blog:

"These pigs are out there shouting to give zillionaires a fat year-end bonus and extend it for a couple of years while sticking it to poor people who rely on programs like the school lunch and breakfast program to survive… Maybe she should shut up and listen to what’s going on around her for a change. If she did, she might not, miss the fact that food banks are struggling to meet demand as more and more families struggle to keep roofs over their heads, sacrificing other necessities like food and clothing. Since 2006, the need for some form of assistance has tripled. Tripled."

My note: I have long suggested that people of her persuasion should experience for a few months what it's like to be me or one of the families that get school breakfast... I suspect attitudes would change

[Brickbat]

11. Ha! She's so close. If that many families qualify for school breakfast, then yes, there is a "major

widespread problem," but it's not neglect. It's the deliberate and disastrous destruction of the working and middle classes.

[handmade34]

13. Brickbat... love your sig. n/t

[Brickbat]

17. Thanks!

:toast:

[Wednesdays]

14. Just like my signature quote

"To a conservative, a recession is when millions of workers suddenly decide to become lazy and irresponsible." It sounds like parody, but apparently it's not.

[Brickbat]

18. So very, very true.

[madrchsod]

12. she will end up like all of us...

and her problem is which way is she going.

[LeftinOH]

15. I understood where this was going at "Republican strategy session". They are scum.

[Odin2005]

19. Oh for fuck's sake. This woman's heartlessness is astounding

[Adsos Letter]

20. The remarks of Limbaugh and O'Beirne could only be said by someone who never had to worry...

about providing for their kids, and see no reason that they should in any way have to help the less fortunate.

it sickens me that people who have such wealth, power, and above all, INFLUENCE, should use it to promote the very worst humanity can offer.

[cap]

21. my mother's family was so poor during the depression

that sitting on the stoop eating a pickle was a real treat. I guess this is what Madame O'Beirne is looking forward to.

BTW, could employers who don't pay a living wage get charged with criminal something or other?